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Three balloons during Trump
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:53 am
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:53 am
How is it, despite nonstop leaks and negative press to hurt the Trump administration, something as big as this was never reported on? Especially when our relations with China were so low during the onset of COVID-19?
Three balloons? Please.
Three balloons? Please.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:55 am to TDFreak
They were probably over American open waters off Alaska for 30 seconds... Or, he was never briefed on them. That man would have never allowed this.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:56 am to TDFreak
Say it slowly
D I S I N F O R M A T I O N
D I S I N F O R M A T I O N
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:02 am to Tigahs24Seven
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Or, he was never briefed on them.
That’s a hell of an excuse.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 10:08 am
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:05 am to TDFreak
I don’t think he had any hang around the continental US for nearly a week.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:20 am to Gifman
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I don’t think he had any hang around the continental US for nearly a week.
Because it never happened.
This POS excuse of an administration and the main stream media are lying again, and millions of retards believe them.
After everything that’s happened we still have millions of gullible sheep.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:25 am to TDFreak
I could see the headline
“Trump colluding with Russia. Could he also be colluding with China, too?”
“Trump colluding with Russia. Could he also be colluding with China, too?”
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 10:27 am
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:28 am to TDFreak
More gaslighting from our friendly american mass media and US Government.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:30 am to TDFreak
I’ll have to see some proof of that other than MSM taking heads proclaiming it.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:31 am to Wednesday
quote:
Say it slowly
D I S I N F O R M A T I O N
Say it slowly
H Y P O C R I S Y
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:35 am to TDFreak
Never WOULD have happened and never DID happen.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:36 am to Wednesday
quote:definitely
D I S I N F O R M A T I O N
There were hundreds of such vehicles since 1980s at least
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:37 am to TDFreak
Sounds like something the media conjured up to soften the optics of this administration’s failure.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:38 am to BayouBlitz
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Say it slowly H Y P O C R I S Y
Say it slowly
B A Y O U P U T Z
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:41 am to TDFreak
LINK ]That claim about three Chinese spy balloons on Trump's watch is deflating fast (American Thinker)
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There's just one problem, though -- the claim that Trump saw three Chinese balloons traverse through the U.S. on his watch and did nothing is ... deflating fast.
First, we have an explicit denial from someone who would have known.
According to the Daily Mail:
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The revelation startled Mark Esper, the former Secretary of Defense, and comes as Trump and other Republicans claimed he would have shot down the balloon while calling on Joe Biden to resign over the stalled attack on the craft.
...and...
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Esper told CNN that he was 'surprised' by the Pentagon's statement, saying he was never told about Chinese surveillance balloons entering the US when he served between July 2019 to November 2020. 'I don't ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,' Esper said, adding that 'I would remember that for sure.'
He wasn't the only one. There's also him:
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It should be noted that neither Esper, nor former CIA director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are on palsy terms with Trump these days. Esper was fired in some dispute near the end of the Trump presidency and Pompeo is a potential rival for the presidency in 2024. It's not like there's a tag team thing going on with all of them, given that they don't speak with each other. That makes them particularly credible as witnesses.
Here's a third witness:
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And breaking news, a fourth:
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There's a fifth reason the story is falling apart, too, from journalist Paul Sperry -- that a Pentagon spokesman actually contradicted this report. I can't find the tweet but I will post it when I do.
A sixth reason is a potential self-own from the Pentagon. With Esper and Pompeo denying they ever heard about this, could it be that the Pentagon knew about this and never told Trump or any of his men? That's pretty much their pattern, what with Gen. Milley caught calling up his Chinese counterparts in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots and assuring them that he'd give them good notice should Trump decide to launch a war with them. The insubordination of the Pentagon to any commander in chief is getting to be a significant story.
Here's a seventh one, and again it's breaking news:
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The very nature of these balloon flights were close to but not in the United States, which makes this a different kettle of fish. Here's the deets on the one that brazenly went over the U.S. and its most sensitive military installations, from a New York Post explainer that ran in that LINK ] paper on Feb. 3:
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Balloon sightings happen with some frequency.
In its January report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena — Pentagon jargon for UFOs — the Defense Department noted 163 of 366 reports (or 44%) could be “characterized as balloon or balloon-like entities,” though it’s unclear where the entities were spotted and from what countries they came.
While this is not the first time a foreign spy balloon has floated through American airspace, there are several reasons why officials say this one stands out.
First, the timing of the balloon’s flight is curious, as one State Department official noted: “This is the first time it’s happened on the eve of a planned secretary of state visit” to China.
It was also spotted the same week the US confirmed a deal to increase its military presence in the Philippines, placing pressure on neighboring China and bringing US forces closer to Taiwan.
So the whole story about Trump supposedly knowing about and ignoring the presence of three comparable spy balloons from China is falling apart fast. What's being described never happened, and what did happen was not like what happened this past week. It's just spin, another bid to give Joe Biden a public relations 'save' in the wake of the public relations disaster this balloon incident is amounting to, exposing both Joe's and America's weakness.
This incident rather resembles the Liz Cheney-promoted lie that President Trump knew about Russian bounties on the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan and did nothing. That story, too, was debunked badly when the facts came out, and intriguingly, also came from the Pentagon's lie shop.
Now we are hearing this crap, which is falling apart like a busted balloon overhead overhead and waiting for the press to dine out on the scraps.
Spare us this clown show. Trump never let balloons float overhead from China the way Joe Biden has. The claim is nothing but desperate leftist bunkum.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:42 am to BayouBlitz
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H Y P O C R I S Y
Oh. There’s definitely hypocrisy involved. Just not in the way you think.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:49 am to TDFreak
This is a stupid story. So Trump saw 3 balloons and did nothing, and what you are saying your administration learned from that was to wait for the balloon to traverse the entire country and then shoot it down?
In other words, you admit that this was a possibility, has happened before and you had prior knowledge, and ultimately your response was indeed to shoot it down, but stay completely silent when everyone is screaming wtf?
In other words, you admit that this was a possibility, has happened before and you had prior knowledge, and ultimately your response was indeed to shoot it down, but stay completely silent when everyone is screaming wtf?
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:54 am to ragincajun03
quote:embarassing you actually believe that there were spy balloons over American under Trump. It would have been front line news.
ragincajun03
Do you ever stop accepting propaganda as truth? Ever?
Posted on 2/5/23 at 11:18 am to AuburnTigers
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Do you ever stop accepting propaganda as truth? Ever?
I don’t know if there were are weren’t balloons floated over during the Trump Administration. I’m guessing no.
However, I’m laughing at this excuse that if there was, Trump wasn’t briefed on it by his staff. That’s stupid and lame.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 11:28 am to BayouBlitz
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BayouBlitz
Such a pussy.
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