Because y’all are obviously not in the loop on much these days, here’s a condensed version of a NYT report on a botched U.S. raid to North Korea.
President Trump said Friday he didn't know anything about a classified 2019 SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea in which unarmed North Korean civilians were killed.
Trump was asked by a reporter: "Can you confirm that it happened?"
"I don't know anything about it. I'm hearing it now for the first time," he responded.
Two dozen people, including civilian government officials, members of the first Trump administration and current and former military personnel with knowledge of the mission who spoke to the NYT, said Trump had approved the mission.
SEAL Team 6 commandos were to plant a device that would "let the United States intercept the communications of North Korea’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong-un, amid high-level nuclear talks with President Trump."
The U.S. team members feared they had been spotted by a North Korean boat that was approaching the area. The SEALs opened fire, killing all aboard the boat.
Upon inspection, none of the people in the boat was armed, and evidence "suggested that the crew, which people briefed on the mission said numbered two or three people, had been civilians diving for shellfish."
The SEALs made it back to their large nuclear-powered submarine nearby and fled the North Korean coast undetected.
No one in the Trump administration informed Congress of the botched mission, the account said.
Is there any limit on what Trump can demand, and have happen?
I think not.
He’s turning America into a pariah.
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