Oil Flowing Through the Strait.The Trump administration has been saying for a while that as many as nine million barrels of oil a day are traversing the Strait of Hormuz. That claim has been “fact checked” and derided by just about everyone. Politico is one of many instances: “Trump’s rosy Hormuz claims collide with tanker data.”
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Only – oops – it turns out that President Trump and Secretary Wright, one of his cabinet’s most impressive members, were right all along, as Kpler now confirms.
If only the correction were as big as the original report.
Actually, any correction at all would be nice — I couldn’t find one at Politico.