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    Default That claim about three Chinese spy balloons on Trump's watch is deflating fast

    The Milley boys at the Pentagon have come up with a new public relations "save" for Joe Biden and his pathetic indecisiveness about a China spy balloon brazenly traversing the continental United States until it was shot down over the Atlantic yesterday.

    According to the Pentagon's website, defense.gov:

    [cut]

    You know the press is going to be dining out on this for the next ten news cycles.

    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:

    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...

    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:

    Tonight, it's been reported that at least 3 Chinese spy balloons crossed the U.S. during Trump's administration.

    Yesterday afternoon, Mike Pompeo told Fox News he was not aware of this happening "during our four years in office"

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...ting_fast.html

    The idea that there were 3 instances during Trump’s presidency is made up to cover for Burden.

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    Absolutely. Even the left KNOWS its all bullshit. Thats the best part.......

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    It was the Defense Department that said 3 balloons flew over during Trump. That is the real part.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    The idea that there were 3 instances during Trump’s presidency is made up to cover for Burden.
    Biden doesn't need 'cover'. In waiting until the balloon was over inshore waters, he was acting on military advice.

    Stated reason: to avoid the possibility of ground damage or injury to people.

    Unstated reason: to have a better chance of recovering the debris relatively intact.


    We'll see what comes of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stone View Post
    Absolutely. Even the left KNOWS its all bullshit. Thats the best part.......
    The Pentagon lies?

    Who would have thunk!
    Conservatives and Left Liberals cant admit how bad things are, because then they would have no choice but to admit that they have failed and they have failed all the way....over decades.

    BIG PAIN will tune them up.

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    Forbes doesn't think it's BS; look at evince's thread. Don't you admire the way Pompeo, et al, are beating their chests over what they would have done, shooting down a three bus size object before it reached the ocean with no control over where and on whose property and heads it might land?
    "Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    Biden doesn't need 'cover'. In waiting until the balloon was over inshore waters, he was acting on military advice.

    Stated reason: to avoid the possibility of ground damage or injury to people.

    Unstated reason: to have a better chance of recovering the debris relatively intact.


    We'll see what comes of it.
    The balloon was over inshore waters back on last Saturday-Sunday when it came in over the Aleutians and the Alaskan coast, bud.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    It was the Defense Department that said 3 balloons flew over during Trump. That is the real part.
    Probably 3 children's party balloons that were made in China.
    IMPEACH 46

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    It was the Defense Department that said 3 balloons flew over during Trump. That is the real part.
    actually, the report said "US officials"......no one said DoD.......
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Democrat deflection is their answer for their daily fuckups.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    The Milley boys at the Pentagon have come up with a new public relations "save" for Joe Biden and his pathetic indecisiveness about a China spy balloon brazenly traversing the continental United States until it was shot down over the Atlantic yesterday.

    According to the Pentagon's website, defense.gov:

    [cut]

    You know the press is going to be dining out on this for the next ten news cycles.

    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:

    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...

    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:

    Tonight, it's been reported that at least 3 Chinese spy balloons crossed the U.S. during Trump's administration.

    Yesterday afternoon, Mike Pompeo told Fox News he was not aware of this happening "during our four years in office"

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...ting_fast.html

    The idea that there were 3 instances during Trump’s presidency is made up to cover for Burden.
    American thinker is right wing trash

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    Quote Originally Posted by martin View Post
    Forbes doesn't think it's BS; look at evince's thread. Don't you admire the way Pompeo, et al, are beating their chests over what they would have done, shooting down a three bus size object before it reached the ocean with no control over where and on whose property and heads it might land?
    Look at my response in that thread. It pretty much shoots down Evince and Forbes, pun included.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionfish View Post
    Democrat deflection is their answer for their daily fuckups.
    Defense dept claims are the defense. It works fine. You rightys are scrambling for a way to blame Biden.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Thinker


    Racist trash created to Combat the Obama run

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