When news broke of an apparent morale crisis and multiple attempted suicides aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump couldn’t have been clearer. Hegseth dismissed the story as “fake news,” saying the media had “completely misrepresented” the situation. Trump followed suit, also claiming the story was “fake news,” and a “fake CNN report.”
Acting US Navy secretary Hung Cao has now confirmed the story was not fake news and was in fact accurately reported by multiple media outlets, including Stars and Stripes, The New York Times, and CNN.
