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Impeachment hearing testimony conflicts with reality, per Military Times.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/12\/26\/new-for-2020-black-sea-patrols-have-remained-consistent-under-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 Christopher Anderson, a U.S. foreign service officer, testified before lawmakers that Trump had ordered the Black Sea patrols be canceled after seeing a report on CNN about the U.S. naval movements in the contentious waters in January.<\/p>\n But those patrols were never canceled and they have remained consistent under Trump\u2019s tenure in the White House. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Ross patrolled the Black Sea in December, making it the eighth time a U.S. warship visited the Black Sea in 2019. – article<\/p>\n So the patrols have never stopped. They’ve been going on consistently since 2016.\u00a0 Anderson lied.<\/p>\n I hope this simple fact comes up during the impeachment trial, if that occurs. Conflicting testimony from a FS desk jockey and someone in the know ought to have some impact, right?<\/p>\n Of course, if quizzed about it, Anderson will probably flabbergast his way out of it. It\u2019s what those people do.<\/p>\n Also, there is this:\u00a0 Stars and Stripes<\/a>\u00a0first reported that the U.S. Navy Black Sea patrols were never canceled.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"