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1 posted on 02/06/2023 5:24:44 AM PST by McGruff
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“… Fox News has also learned that at least one Chinese spy balloon flew over portions of Texas and Florida during the Trump administration, despite the former president’s insistence it never happened.…”
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BULL CRAP! Prove it.


2 posted on 02/06/2023 5:27:15 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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Send a spy balloon over China and see how they respond.


3 posted on 02/06/2023 5:28:27 AM PST by xp38
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The national security establishment would not have informed Trump, lest he do something rash.


6 posted on 02/06/2023 5:32:01 AM PST by FarCenter
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So, either they’re lying, or they withheld critical information from the Trump administration.

Who’s surprised here...


7 posted on 02/06/2023 5:33:40 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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So, who to believe, Fox News or Trump? /s


10 posted on 02/06/2023 5:37:06 AM PST by OKSooner (War is a racket. COVID-19 is a racket.)
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I posted on another thread (updated):

You have one of thre options, because not only Trump and other admin officials including nutjob Bolton has denied this happened:

1. The story of the ballonos during the Trump administration is a lie. Based on the way DC/media has conducted itself at least since 2009, I tend to believe this.
2. The intelligence community and military knew, but did not report this. This in itself is a real problem because they are acting outside the chain of command. In this case, firings, courts martial, and prison are in the offing for dereliction of duty at the minimum.
3. Trump, Pompeo, Grennell, and Bolton are lying. The burden of proof is on the unnamed sources. I find this hard to believe because too often 'unnamed sources' with lack of proof translates to "we made it up".

So which is it?

11 posted on 02/06/2023 5:38:09 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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“But Trump and top national security officials from his administration said that did not occur and criticized the Biden administration for spreading disinformation.

“This never happened. It would have never happened,” Trump told Fox News Digital on Sunday morning, adding that Beijing “respected us greatly” under his leadership.

“It never happened with us under the Trump administration, and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately,” Trump said. “It’s disinformation.”

Another article says that the balloons during the Trump administration went “undetected”. If they were “undetected” at that time how do they know about it now over 2 years later? Stories like this based on “anonymous” sources are usually just lies.


18 posted on 02/06/2023 5:56:33 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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20 posted on 02/06/2023 5:57:53 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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briefly transited the continental U.S.

Knowing leftists prevarications, this makes me wonder ...

How does one "briefly" transit the continental US?

I can see "briefly" crossing airspace over Hawaii, or the Aleutians.

Maybe even crossing New England.

I suspect that the anonymous source has been dipping into their white powder that they were supposed to be selling.

24 posted on 02/06/2023 6:10:56 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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The first lie: “THREE balloons were ignored by Trump” didn’t work, so now they’re trying a new one: “Trump ignored TWO BRIEF” balloons. That one won’t fly either, they’ve already been caught lying.


28 posted on 02/06/2023 6:31:17 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Once you predict children will no longer see snow, you can’t now claim snow proves you are right)
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The story about Chinese balloons flying over the US during Trump’s time is quickly falling apart.

I expect Democrats to continue to believe and repeat that lie.


31 posted on 02/06/2023 6:35:55 AM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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No, Fox Snooze has been “told” spy balloons were in Florida and wherever. Funny the Director of National Intelligence had no knowledge of it.


34 posted on 02/06/2023 7:47:01 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Fox News has also learned from the Biden report.............

CNN numbers increasing why not


36 posted on 02/06/2023 8:33:46 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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Where’s the wreckage?

Oh, I see… /s


37 posted on 02/06/2023 8:55:51 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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