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@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @realDonaldTrump claims his uncle taught the Unabomber, offers no evidence to support claim [1]”

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
„[...] while the @POTUS's uncle {Dr. John G. Trump (1907–1985) [2]} had indeed been a well-known MIT professor, he was not the longest-serving one, nor did he have degrees in »nuclear, chemical and math« (he had a Ph.D. in electrical engineering) [3].”

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS 3).
„For two big reasons, this story could not possibly be accurate.

First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Dr. Theodore J. Kaczynski (1942–2023) [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured;

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS 4).
before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness. There is no apparent reason that @realDonaldTrump would have been asking anyone about Kaczynski in 1985 or earlier.

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS 5).
Second, Kaczynski attended @Harvard University and the University of Michigan (@UMich), not @MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wed. email:
– »We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT«.

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @Harvard @UMich @MIT 6).
@Harvard has long allowed some students to register for classes at nearby @MIT, but media outlets and MIT itself have found no sign that Kaczynski ever did that during his time at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s – much less that Kaczynski,

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @Harvard @UMich @MIT 7).
a Harvard mathematics major, studied under Trump, the MIT professor of electrical engineering.

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @Harvard @UMich @MIT 8).
MIT reported on its website in 1996 that Kaczynski’s high school guidance counselor said Kaczynski had been offered admission to MIT in the 1950s but had chosen Harvard instead [10] [1].”

July 17, 2025

[1] @ABC abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…

[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._T…

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @Harvard @UMich @MIT @ABC 9).
[3] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 (@nytimes) archive.ph/YUdVg

[4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczy…

[5] crimelibrary.org/terrorists_spi…

[6] @FBI fbi.gov/history/famous…

[7] @gettysburg cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewconten…

@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @Harvard @UMich @MIT @ABC @nytimes @FBI @gettysburg 10).
[8] @HISTORY history.com/articles/unabo…

[9] youtu.be/nKrieWO7wqM

[10] @CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/07/16/pol…

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