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No, the prototype of Trump’s wall didn’t keep out Navy SEALs

By Becket Adams
Published March 2, 2018 7:56pm ET
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No, the prototype of Trump’s wall didn’t keep out Navy SEALs
A Fox News contributor, during a panel discussion, said, "Special Forces operatives and members of our Navy SEAL community were asked to try and breach the wall prototypes and they could not do it." Well, this is not entirely true. For starters, the SEALs have not been involved in any testing of any wall prototype (Arik Dashevsky/Washington Examiner)

Never let it be said that Fox News is innocent when it comes to the spread of false information.

Case in point: The U.S. Navy had something to say this week after Fox contributor Katie Pavlich claimed a team of SEALs were unable to contravene a prototype of President Trump’s border wall.

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