Navy says it never got a Trump order to stop patrols in Black Sea

[jpak]

https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/navy-says-it-never-got-a-trump-order-to-stop-patrols-in-black-sea-1.607116

vember 13, 2019

STUTTGART, Germany — The Navy said it never received an order to halt warship maneuvers in the Black Sea earlier this year, despite testimony in a congressional impeachment hearing that President Donald Trump asked for the cancellation after he heard about it on television.

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The question about a disruption in the Navy’s mission emerged during Congress’ impeachment inquiry into whether Trump withheld military support for Ukraine to pressure Kyiv into launching an investigation into political rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

Christopher Anderson, a U.S. foreign service officer who served as a special adviser on Ukraine until July, told the House’s select committee on intelligence that Trump was upset in January about a CNN report on a Navy patrol in the Black Sea.

He told then-national security adviser John Bolton to end the mission, according to Anderson’s testimony released by lawmakers on Monday.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Someone drop the ball or did they ignore the fool because it was a stupid idea in first place.

[gratuitous]

3. Hardly a blip in the never-ending shitstorm

Trump see story on CNN. Trump mad! Grrrr! Stop patrols, get Navy out of Black Sea.

Bolton, knowing a stupid request when he hears one, does nothing. Months later, the Navy confirms that Trump's stupid order based on incomplete information (at best) or a desire to please Vlad was not carried out. In fact, they never received any such order at all.

In ordinary times, this sort of insubordination and communications breakdown would have some repercussions. In Trump's United States? Nobody will remember this after Thanksgiving.

[MerryBlooms]

4. Whoa! That is a big f'n deal!

The incredible risk this bogus administration has put our national security, the world's security, our folks in uniform... we knew it was bad, but imagine our military trying to make sense of what's official policy and the j/k it's just a tweeter/tweaker policy.

[crickets]

5. This is why the public hearings will gather a momentum of their own.

The information avalanche is just getting started.