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Posted on 2/5/23 at 7:58 am to Jrue
quote:Article says no such thing.
Three spy balloons flew over country during Trump Administration
Be better.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 8:12 am to tigerfan 64
quote:
China is gonna win with bunts, stolen bases, sacrifices, our errors and unearned runs while we swing for the fences.
China won because the people in our federal government, corporate America and US STEM universities have sold out the American people to CCP money.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 8:44 am to Jrue
Jrue sucks dick behind Wendy's dumpsters, according to a Pentagon Source.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:07 am to Jrue
quote:is there any source indicating Trump was made aware of the balloons?
Why did Trump not let us know and shoot these things down?
Honestly asking.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:14 am to Jrue
quote:
The official said Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States
Official didn’t say what happened to them did he. Likely Trump ordered them eliminated 5min after they were discovered like any good leader would do.
Potatus on the other hand.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 9:49 am
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:19 am to jimmy the leg
quote:
The official said Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration.
So not Chinese spy balloons? The author could have made that clear, but left out something very specific.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:26 am to Jrue
esper, pompeo and ratcliffe refute
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:33 am to Jrue
Mark Esper, the former Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, told 'CNN This Morning’ on Friday that he was “surprised” by the Pentagon’s statement that similar incidents had happened during the Trump administration.
“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."
“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."
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:44 am to KCSilverTiger
I thought maybe it was first shot at at
LINK ]Close-Up View of the shoot-down Video Clip
LINK ]Fox News LIVE of the Shoot-Down Video Clip
LINK ]From N. Myrtle Beach Video Clip
LINK ]Another Beach Video Clip of the Shoot-Down
quote:
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
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Senior US military official says 1 air to air missile fired by F22 at 58,000 feet (an A9X missile) brought down China spy balloon. The balloon was at 60-65,000 feet when shot.
3:50 PM · Feb 4, 2023
quote:LINK ]Video Clip of Shoot-Down
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
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JUST IN - FAA closes airspace off the coast of South Carolina.
1:20 PM · Feb 4, 2023
LINK ]Close-Up View of the shoot-down Video Clip
LINK ]Fox News LIVE of the Shoot-Down Video Clip
LINK ]From N. Myrtle Beach Video Clip
LINK ]Another Beach Video Clip of the Shoot-Down
quote:
CSPAN
@cspan
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President Biden: "I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible." #ChineseSpyBalloon LINK
Video Clip
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:45 am to KCSilverTiger
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Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:48 am to AggieHank86
quote:
Article
This isn’t an “article” it’s a literal DOD Press Release.
These people are so full of shite they can’t even tell when they are lying.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 9:56 am to Jrue
Not to play word games, but the article said "prior administration", which could be any administration prior to the current. Find one that says Trump Administration then come back and play.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:08 am to NC_Tigah
quote:
Riiiight! Says "a senior defense official .... speaking on background" .... who is too pusillanimous to release his name so he can be grilled on specifics. Yeah, I'm all in there, buddy.
No Pilots and no people on the ground saw them.
Why?
Because it never happened.
It’s mind blowing the millions of retards that STILL believe the current failed administration AND the MSM after all that has happened with the Pee Pee Russia collusion hoax and what’s unfolding with Joe Biden being a Foreign agent.
This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 10:10 am
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:09 am to Marquesa
Even SNLIVE says it was the first time these balloons entered USA air Space
OP cough cough is a hack that needs to crawl back to Karl Rove and DU forums.
OP cough cough is a hack that needs to crawl back to Karl Rove and DU forums.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:41 am to GhostOfFreedom
quote:
Jrue sucks dick behind Wendy's dumpsters, according to a Pentagon Source.
Jrue: "No I don't. Besides, it was Arby's"
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:42 am to sabanisarustedspoke
quote:
Why did Trump not let us know and shoot these things down?
quote:The only reason is that a lone country-baw in Montana happened to look up at the right time.
The same reason "Biden" didn't let us know about this one.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:44 am to Jrue
*Cross-posted from a similar thread on this subject
LINK ]That claim about three Chinese spy balloons on Trump's watch is deflating fast (American Thinker)
LINK ]That claim about three Chinese spy balloons on Trump's watch is deflating fast (American Thinker)
quote:
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:
quote:
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...
quote:
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:
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:
And breaking news, a fourth:
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:
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:
quote:
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 10:48 am to cajunangelle
This balloon thing has turned into a sad comedy. Arguing over big balloons.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 11:14 am to Jrue
quote:post less.
Jrue
And by less I mean never.
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