‘I Know Nothing About It’: Trump Pleads Ignorance on Deadly Navy SEAL Raid

Kathryn Wilkens Sep 5th, 2025, 5:38 pm

President Donald Trump denied any knowledge of a 2019 Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the deaths of unarmed North Korean fishermen, saying, “I know nothing about it.”

On Friday, reported that in 2019, Trump approved a Navy SEAL mission to install a bug ahead of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un . Operating without drone support and mistaking a fishing boat for a threat, SEALs opened fire, killing two or three unarmed civilians. The civilians’ lungs were allegedly punctured so they would sink.

The president appeared in front of reporters in the Oval Office on Friday to sign several executive orders — including the name change of the Department of

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