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    Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too

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    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. 

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    ...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" to "the best of my knowledge." pic.twitter.com/TczYr9lBXY

    — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) February 5, 2023

    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:

    BREAKING: Former ODNI John Ratcliffe just denied Biden admin claims Chinese sent 3 balloons into US on Trump's watch: "I can refute it. It didn't happen." He said this was first time and "the damage is incalculable." He also suggested Biden & his nat'l security team "compromised"

    — Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 5, 2023

    And breaking news, a fourth:

    Biden’s DoD is shamelessly using an anonymous source to say that Chinese balloons flew over the US under Trump - and the Trump team allowed it.

    It is a lie. We never heard this - ever.

    Congress should demand @SecDef tell the truth. Shame on @JakeSullivan46.

    — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 5, 2023

    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:

    FACT: THIS IS BLATANTLY UNTRUE & EXACTLY WHY NO ONE TRUSTS THE AMERICAN LEFT-WING #PROPAGANDA MEDIA!
    There Were Incidents Where Chinese Balloons Dtifted NEAR US Airspace BUT NOT OVER THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
    100% LIES!!!! https://t.co/WQfZqO0frZ

    — John Basham 🇺🇲 (@JohnBasham) February 5, 2023

    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 paper on Feb. 3:

    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. 

    UPDATE: And here's an eighth:

    Trump calls out Biden on his Chinese balloon "disgrace." pic.twitter.com/ndBJmCF6jG

    — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) February 5, 2023
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    Trump's Russia Bounty Story Falls Apart As Military Tried To Protect Troops

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    On 6/29/2020 at 4:16 PM, Mainecat said:

    Trump's Russia Bounty Story Falls Apart As Military Tried To Protect Troops

    From the article: 
     
    As more outlets have confirmed the initial report that the Russians placed a bounty on the heads of US troops in Afghanistan, Trump’s claims of fake news are collapsing. The White House tried to claim that Trump wasn’t briefed, but the Office of the Director of National Intelligence won’t say whether or not Trump was given a written briefing that he ignored. 

    If the Russian bounty on US troops was “fake news” as the President claimed on Twitter, why did the military take steps to try to protect US forces in Afghanistan?


    To read more: 

    https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/28/trump-russia-bounty-troops-afganistan.html 

    Trump has lied over 20,000 times, and the lies are collapsing under the weight of reality. Except, of course, for the 37% of Trump true believers.

    What number of lies is Joe up to? Or do you care anymore?

    Nancy Pelosi is one tough bitch!

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    7 hours ago, Mainecat said:

    She’s 81 and knelt on the stone floor for 9 minutes.

    At 81 not one of you clowns could do that.

    Trump was 78 when he stood for hours on end saluting every graduate of West Point. Was it you or Porky who gave him shit for a arm down a ramp? Or is this just more of your Neverending hypocrisy?

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    WTF???

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    The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows. To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable... that’s the point

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    Vermont Now Has Mask Order

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    3 minutes ago, frenchy said:

    for the 400th time that was when people were using and hording masks because they thought they would protect the mask wearer from contracting it. 

    But now we're supposed to believe them... I got it now. Thanks.

    Tiny White Penises

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    10 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

    Yes a very large percentage for sure, not that they just disagreed with his words, but the very actions they have zero problem with now. 

     

    Have you seen what the debt and deficit is now?  Have you seen the FEDS balance sheet recently?  If this was anytime during the last term there would be multiple threads about it.  

     

    I fully understood then and now the reasons for QE, ECT., I wanted more to go to average people then and now, unlike the 180 the majority have taken.

    I'm a very average person and I got mine while it was there. . And still am. What's your excuse?

    Trumps signature

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    The article also includes a section quoting some career officials claiming this will lead to a delay:

    The team, working from home, is now racing to implement a programming change that two senior IRS officials said will probably lead to a delay in issuing the first batch of paper checks. They are scheduled to be sent Thursday to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service for printing and issuing.

    Computer code must be changed to include the president’s name, and the system must be tested, these officials said. “Any last-minute request like this will create a downstream snarl that will result in a delay,” said Chad Hooper, a quality-control manager who serves as national president of the IRS’s Professional Managers Association.

    But the idea there will be some kind of a delay is not true. Buried deeper within the piece is confirmation that the checks will not be delayed.

    A Treasury Department spokeswoman, however, denied any delay and said the plan all along was to issue the checks next week.

    “Economic Impact Payment checks are scheduled to go out on time and exactly as planned —

     

    there is absolutely no delay whatsoever,”

     

     

    the spokeswoman said in a written statement. She said this was a faster process than the stimulus checks the George W. Bush administration issued in 2008 to head off a looming recession.

    “In fact, we expect the first checks to be in the mail early next week which is well in advance of when the first checks went out in 2008 and well in advance of initial estimates,” the statement said.

    Multiple Treasury Department officials confirmed to Breitbart News that the claims of a delay are inaccurate. One Treasury Department official confirmed that President Trump’s name will appear on the paper checks, adding there will be no delay to make that happen.

    Peter Navarro Knew

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    2 hours ago, Mileage Psycho said:

    Thanks for the link, I'm surprised at Fauci's comment although it would be great to hear the whole context.

    Intel was warning in late November about what was going on in Wuhan, I will say it again that it our response to the virus was criminal.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/intelligence-report-warned-of-coronavirus-crisis-as-early-as-november-sources/ar-BB12j7DP

     

     

     

    Vince sounds like he knows how this election is gonna go... :lol:

    this is why the general public is stupid

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    On 3/4/2020 at 4:58 PM, Anler said:

    $1.50 for smokes. Would walk across the rail road tracks at lunch in high school to the gas station, buy a pack of marlboros and smoke 1 or 2 on the way back. 

    In Germany it was $4.25 for a carton of Marlboro.  4 cartons and the landlord knocked off $120 of the rent.

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