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Trump's impossible Unabomber story about deceased MIT uncle debunked

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 18, 2025
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Trump went to Pennsylvania earlier this week and told a crowd that his late uncle John, a legendary MIT professor, once said to him that the Unabomber "was seriously good at correcting people." The only problem: John Trump died in 1985, Kaczynski wasn't unmasked until 1996, and — perhaps most inconvenient of all — Kaczy…

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