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.
...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"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They’ll say it’s classified info.
LOL balloon with a Chinese food carry out container......LOL.
the facts dont matter to the left- they just keep repeating the leis over and over until people are brainwashed- and viola- the ‘New Truth’ (according to the left) is born-
Yeah - probably. But whoever is claiming this stuff happened on Trump’s watch is on the hook to defend their assertion and produce evidence.
Sadly, you are correct. The key lie is always the first one when they frame the story. Few folks ever see the limited coverage where the story completely falls apart.
It is blatantly dishonest.
This is a good article. It will be seen by .01 % of Americans. You could do a poll in 2 years and 55% of the country will tell you that China sent balloons over the US during the Trump administration.
This kind of crap works. Don’t believe me? Look at the polling in the past couple of years on Charlottesville or Schiff’s description of the phone call to Ukraine. Half the country still believes the first lie.
Harry Reid had no shame about lying and he said it best -
“well it worked didn’t it?” Most of the American media is no different now than Harry Reid.
It is not so much that Biden looks like a fool as it is that he is an apparent traitor.
IF true, there’s a papertrail somewhere...
Props for the meme.
The Neverending Coup never ends.
It is not indecisiveness it is treason. It is way past time to fess up to it.
There was no way to "classify" the story about the spy balloon because a whole bunch of Americans looked and saw it.
So if it happened before people would have seen it and recorded it.
So... show me the twitter posts.
50 CIA agent gambit redux. Despicable.
even that rat fink Bolton tells the truth saying this NEVER HAPPENED and if anyone wanted to be best buds with the media and find a way to trash Trump it would be Bolton
The Media-Dem Party has a well-worn playbook: Come up with a lie, and spread it far and wide. When it is exposed as a lie, don’t apologize, just move on to another lie. Rinse and repeat.
To: shadowlands1960
Did any at the Pentagon bother to inform the President?
6 posted on 2/4/2023, 7:44:45 PM by BenLurkin
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4128632/posts?page=6#6
Apparently not!
Am surprised the Dems haven’t claimed the balloons belonged to Trump. Maybe next week.
The saddest part is that there are Americans who actually accept these lies as the truth.
The saddest part is that there are Americans who actually accept these lies as the truth. Lying like a democrat dog.
I think the folks who told this whopper are going to try the classified excuse if they think they can get away with it, and lots of people will believe them.
The problem with this is that we all KNOW that if it had been true, the intelligence community would have leaked it to the press back then, and it would’ve been PLASTERED across every media format. No way they would have stayed quiet about it. NONE.
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