White
House press secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday denied that the Trump
administration misled the public when the president said last week that a
U.S. aircraft carrier was heading toward the Sea of Japan.
Read more: - by White House denies misleading public in aircraft carrier mix-up | TheHill
“The
president said that we have an armada going toward the [Korean
Peninsula]. That is fact. It happened. It is happening, rather,” Spicer
said during a press briefing.
The Navy announced on
April 9 that its Carl Vinson Strike Group would skip a regularly
scheduled visit to Australia and head toward the western Pacific Ocean, a
move the White House later said was meant as a deterrent to North
Korea's recent provocations.
Spicer denied the White House had misled the public and blamed the Pentagon for any confusion.
“[U.S.
Pacific Command] put out a release talking about the group ultimately
ending up in the Korean peninsula, that’s what it will do,” Spicer
said.
Note EU-Digest: total incompetence in this case shown here by the Trump White House
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