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Posted on 02/05/2023 12:09:08 PM PST by conservative98
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:
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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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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"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sleazy Joe Biden and his corrupt media and party apparatchiks lie, lie, lie, and then just move on as if they’ve never said a damn thing. https://t.co/gBQbG99erp— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) February 5, 2023
Faster than a Tom Brady football.
More media lies and deceit....It’s become an hourly thing...
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:
Paul Sperry
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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”
10:42 AM · Feb 5, 2023
And breaking news, a fourth:
Richard Grenell
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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.
10:32 AM · Feb 5, 2023
I hear even douche bag John Bolton is denying it, and that putz would love nothing more than to go on TV and bash Trump..lets see, four years in office, most of his cabinet stabbing Trump in the back, writing books and NO ONE thought to mention that lil tidbit LOL please..cause it NEVER HAPPENED..if it had the New York Slimes would have leaked it in two seconds flat..this story is coming from one douche bag at the Pentagon, ONE PERSON and its already determined fact LOL..its a pathetic joke, trying to save Biden’s sorry ass since he looks like a damn fool
If it happened during Trump’s watch then they should be able to provide specific dates, locations and photographs.
The idea that there were 3 instances during Trump’s presidency is made up to cover for Burden.
If it truly occurred, theres no way the alphabet agencies would have stayed silent and not leaked it to the msm.
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Where are all the thousands of witnesses to this event which allegedly happened under Trump?
There are none! Lies on lies.
"That's classified!"
1, 2, 3, maybe!
Can I hear from the Branch Covidians about how "It is on a government website so it must be true" crowd?
I don’t which Government I trust less, ours or the ChiComs.
Really, that sews it up. Pompeo was there for the duration of the Trump Administration.
Anyone who doesn't add their name to this list IMMEDIATELY -- like DNI Coats and VP Pence -- is a prime suspect in this ridiculous bit of Deep State agitprop.
The reason no one is aware of it happening is because it never happened. The Biden Administration is imploding, and they are telling horrible lies.
The short attention span idiots in this country, which likely comprises most Americans, only know the first lie. Guess what they believe? Yep, Trump allowed it too.
Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton, to @FoxNews: 'I don’t know of any balloon flights by any power over the United States during my tenure, and I’d never heard of any of that occurring before I joined in 2018.' https://t.co/FBvHIDS4mB— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 5, 2023
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