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Now that the infamous Chinese spy balloon has finally been shot down after it had traversed the United States and thus apparently completed its mission, Old Joe Biden and the people who are really running this regime are in furious damage-control mode. It’s easy to see why: in one move, Biden’s handlers have managed simultaneously to enrage the Chinese and look weak and dithering, and so Biden’s Defense Department has now issued a statement attempting to downplay the whole thing and throw some shade upon Old Joe’s bête noire, Donald Trump. The DOD is claiming that not one, not two, but three Chinese spy balloons flew over the U.S. during his administration, and President America First neither told the American people nor did anything about them. See, Old Joe doesn’t look so bad now, right? The only problem is that the DoD’s story raises more questions than it answers.
Trump, as you might have expected, denied this, declaring on Sunday morning: “The Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration. They are only good at cheating in elections, and disinformation — and now they are putting out that a Balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration, in order to take the ‘heat’ off the slow moving Biden fools. China had too much respect for ‘TRUMP’ for this to have happened, and it NEVER did. JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!” Many, of course, will dismiss Trump’s denial, just as they dismissed his denials of the Russian collusion hoax and a thousand other charges against him that turned out to be false all along, but there is more also that casts doubt upon the Defense Department’s assertion.
Mark Esper was a top Trump administration official, serving as Secretary of the Army from November 2017 to July 2019 and Secretary of Defense from July 2019 to November 2020. He recounts: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States. I would remember that for sure.” That raises several possibilities. Esper himself may not be telling the truth, in an attempt to cover for his old boss. The second possibility is that there were no Chinese spy balloons flying over the U.S. during the Trump administration, and the Defense Department is the one that’s lying, in an attempt to cover for President Dementia and his China-linked son.
A third possibility is that three Chinese spy balloons did indeed conduct high-altitude surveillance over the United States during the Trump administration, and the Defense Department knew about it but didn’t alert Esper or Trump. Inconceivable? Not in the slightest degree. DefenseOne reported back in November 2020 that Jim Jeffrey, who had served as Trump’s special envoy for Syria, boasted that he circumvented Trump’s orders to withdraw American troops from Syria by lying to the President.
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wpm says
Biden administration was more worry about Blinken meeting in China over “climate change” then the safety of the American people. They knew about the balloon before it reached the coastal Islands off Alaska it could have been shot down into the ocean far from any cities or towns in America. If his excuse is Trump had spy balloons floating into America why was it not address now under his administration ,is that how the standard is held up, the other guy screw up so I should be allowed to screw up? It floated into Alaska thru all of Canada (much of it the vacant wildness in the far north) and no one did anything about it ,because it could screw up Blinken,s meeting with the Chinese on “climate change”.
somehistory says
the claim is that three balloons traversed the U.S…..undetected. How could they be known to have traversed the country, and yet, have been undetected? to *Know* they had traveled from china across Texas and across Florida, they would have had to be *detected* by someone.
and how would the balloon get from China to Texas without going over other states?
And, how would a balloon have come from china and traveled across Florida without having crossed other states?
the balloon of record, traveled across many states after it entered the country before reaching the Carolinas. Any other balloon that reached Texas would have come in from some other state, and the same is true of Florida,…and they would have been ***detected.****.
Walter Sieruk says
The only reason that Joe Biden finally allowed the US military to do its job obliterate that spy balloon isn’t because he cares about American or her people. It’s because Biden still has the conceited fantasy that he will run for reelection in 2024 and if he permits the American forces to take action and destroy that Communist spy balloon , Biden feels that will impress the American voting public that he is “strong President” and “deserves” to be reelected.
Major Tom says
They wouldn’t let Joe blow it up so they had to shoot it down…….