‘Surprised you would ask:’ White House balks at question on Trump's bogus story

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt balked during a Thursday news briefing when a reporter sought clarification on a bizarre story shared by President Donald Trump this week, one riddled with factual impossibilities.

On Tuesday, Trump claimed during an event in Pennsylvania that his uncle, the late John Trump, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had a noteworthy student in one of his classes: Ted Kaczynski, an infamous mathematician and domestic terrorist better known as the Unabomber.