I need to start tonight with a bit of an update.

An update on something I said on this show about Donald Trump.

Now, a couple of weeks ago, I opened this show by playing the clip of this completely bizarre moment

when Trump said that his late uncle knew the notorious domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski,

better known as the Unabomber.

My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors, 51 years, whatever, who was the longest-serving

professor in the history of MIT. Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was?

There's very little difference between a madman and a genius. But Kaczynski, I said, what kind of a student was

the uncle John, Dr. John Trump? He said, what kind of a student? And then he said,

seriously good. He said he'd correct, he'd go around correcting everybody, but it didn't

work out too well for him. I mean, that clip does not get any less bizarre, and I just love watching the face of the

man next to Trump that's in the shot. But that aside, Trump said that his uncle taught the

Unabomber at MIT, and that Trump and his uncle had talked about what a good student the Unabomber

had been. Now, at the time, I pointed out that this story was basically impossible. I mean, for one thing, there

was no record that the Unabomber attended MIT, and Trump's uncle, who was a professor at

MIT, died in 1985, more than a decade before the Unabomber's identity even became public. None

of it made any sense. And I said at the time that all this seemed like just another example of Trump losing it.

And believe me, you all know, there are plenty of other examples of that nearly every day.

But it turns out there might be kind of a reasonable explanation for this one.

Because Donald Trump really did have a close personal relation

who reportedly claimed to have known the Unabomber

back in his college days.

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