‘Fake news’: Trump downplays USS Abraham Lincoln deployment concerns

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President Donald Trump downplayed the extended deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln amid the Iran war as part of dishonest reporting from the White House press corps.

“That was a CNN fake report,” Trump told reporters on Monday while speaking in the Oval Office. “The Lincoln has been out there for a period of time, good period of time, but over the years, we’ve had them out there much longer.”

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