Leavitt scolded The Independent ’s Andrew Feinberg on Thursday when the D.C. correspondent brought up Trump’s “impossible story” about his uncle, noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor John Trump. He claimed that this father’s brother taught “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski at the famed university.

President Donald Trump raised eyebrows this week when he claimed his uncle, John Trump, taught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. However, there is no evidence that Kaczynski, one of the most infamous domestic terrorists in American history, had ever been in a classroom with the president's uncle despite his boasting.

Trump, 79, deviated from prepared remarks during U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick’s innovation and energy summit in Pittsburgh to share a story about his uncle, John Trump, a noted MIT professor, teaching Ted Kaczynski, the mail-bomb terrorist who killed three people and injured 23 others from 1978 to 1995.