Osama bin Laden wanted to make Joe Biden president, according to a 2012 story Fox News just resurfaced

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Why is “Usama bin Laden” suddenly trending on Twitter TWTR, -0.07% ?

Well, that would be because Fox News ran this headline: “Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified docs show.”

Breaking news that clearly is not. Those documents, as Fox pointed out, came to light way back in 2012 courtesy of the Washington Post, which reported it like this:

“The reason for concentrating on them,” the al-Qaeda leader explained to his top lieutenant, “is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency… Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis.”

At the time, administration officials said the Obama plot was never a serious threat.

The rhetorical question that spread across the internet: Why now?

Mark Judson For Congress

@Judson4Congress

Usama Bin Laden is the new “Benghazi”? Interesting choice.

How ’bout just say Biden’s hidden birth certificate reveals that he was born Kenya and is actually some sort of MINORITY!

That should do it for the fact retardant voters on the Right.

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Oliver Willis

@owillis

thanks to fox news for getting “Usama bin Laden” to trend. the president who gave the order to kill him has endorsed joe biden.

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Gord Macey@GordMacey

Fox “News” publishing a story on, “Usama bin Laden” that was widely reported 8 years ago shows us just how concerned they are Trump is going to lose in November.

It’s a new level of desperation.

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Chris Shepard@TheChrisShepard

THIS JUST IN: Fox News Takes Sides With Usama Bin Laden, Agrees To Use 9/11 Mastermind’s Alleged Words as Propaganda@FoxNews

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There were, of course, plenty of those who ate up the “news”:

COL (R) Stephen Mitchell@ColSDM

Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified docs show

Even our worst enemies know is a bad choice for America

Great choice for them https://www.foxnews.com/politics/osama-bin-laden-wanted-to-kill-obama-so-biden-would-be-president-declassified-docs-show 

Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified…

Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over the role and plunge the United States “into a crisis,” according to…

foxnews.com

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James Woods

@RealJamesWoods

Even our worst enemies had this figured out. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/osama-bin-laden-wanted-to-kill-obama-so-biden-would-be-president-declassified-docs-show 

Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified…

Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over the role and plunge the United States “into a crisis,” according to…

foxnews.com

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