President Trump on Friday denied figuring out a few Navy SEAL mission in North Korea in 2018 throughout his first time period, following The New York Instances reporting on the botched operation.
Trump was requested if the administration has engaged with North Korea because it occurred and responded, “I don’t know anything about it, no. I’d have to—I could look but I know nothing about that.”
“I don’t know anything about it,” Trump stated on the Oval Workplace when pressed on if he might verify it occurred. “I’m hearing it now for the first time.”
The Instances reported {that a} group of Navy SEALs went on a high secret mission, with Trump’s direct approval, to plant an digital machine to intercept North Korea chief Kim Jong-un’s communications whereas he was engaged in nuclear talks with the U.S.
The mission unraveled, the Instances reported, when SEALs opened fireplace on a North Korean boat and killed everybody on it, then retreated with out planting the machine. The Trump administration on the time reportedly didn’t notify members of Congress earlier than or after the mission.
The mission was given in 2018 to SEAL Staff 6’s Pink Squadron, which is the unit that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 in Afghanistan.
The White Home declined to touch upon the Instances story.
