Trump claims to have killed ‘bigger names’ than Osama Bin Laden in attack on Obama’s record

Mr Obama ordered the raid into Pakistan in 2011 that ended with US Special Operations forces killing bin Laden.

Appearing eager to one-up former President Barack Obama, Donald Trump on Thursday claimed he has ordered the killing of “bigger names” in the violent Islamist extremist realm than al-Qaeda founder and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden

Mr Obama ordered the raid into Pakistan in 2011 that ended with US Special Operations forces killing bin Laden. Mr Trump has never given the 44th president much credit for the mission, and has more recently used Mr Biden’s advising against it when he was vice president as a reason voters should not elect him to the highest office in the land.

"I killed Soleimani, I killed al-Baghdadi – names that everybody, bigger names than Osama bin Laden,” Mr Trump told Fox Business. “Nobody could find them until I came along"

He was referring to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the last ISIS leader, and Qasem Soleimani, the late Iranian general whom the United States and other Western countries considered a terrorist.