By Isabella Torregiani
2:00pm PDT, Jul 18, 2025
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Karoline Leavitt was asked to respond to President
Donald Trump's claim that his uncle
John Trump taught the Unabomber while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Instead of directly addressing the question, Karoline deflected and scolded the reporter for asking.
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President Donald Trump recently alleged that his uncle John Trump, who was a professor at MIT, taught Theodore Kaczynski — the man known as the "Unabomber."
Theodore spent decades anonymously sending mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 between 1978 and 1995.
At an event in Pittsburgh, Donald said he once asked his uncle about Theodore's performance as a student.
According to Donald, his uncle described Theodore as "seriously good" and said he would "go around correcting everybody." However, this claim has been widely disputed.
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Reports clarify that while Theodore Kaczynski was highly educated, he never attended MIT. Instead, he studied at Harvard and the University of Michigan.
Additionally, the timeline contradicts Donald Trump's story — John Trump passed away in 1985, a decade before Theodore's identity as the Unabomber became public in 1995.
It was only after the release of Theodore's manifesto in 1995 that his family began to suspect his involvement in the bombings.
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When asked about the disproven claims during a recent press conference, Karoline Leavitt didn't provide a direct answer.
Andrew Feinberg, White House correspondent for The Independent, questioned her about what he called the "impossible" story.
"With so many issues going on in the world, I'm a little bit surprised you would ask such a question, although I'm not sometimes, coming from you, I will say," Karoline said, "but I'm willing to give you an answer, nevertheless."
She then praised John Trump as "a very intelligent professor" and said, "The president is very proud of his family. In fact, I or rather the president has a letter from his uncle on the MIT letterhead that sits in the Oval Office dining room. Maybe we'll let you see it sometime."
