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Declassified Docs: Bin Laden Plotted To Push U.S. Into ‘Crisis’ By Making Biden President

Ryan Saavedra
Declassified Docs: Bin Laden Plotted To Push U.S. Into ‘Crisis’ By Making Biden President
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Declassified documents that were retrieved from inside Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound in 2011 revealed that he wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama to make “totally unprepared” Joe Biden the next president of the United States, predicting that Biden would lead the U.S. “into a crisis.”

The documents, first reported by The Washington Post in 2012, were unearthed by Fox News Editor Gregg Re on Wednesday night.

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