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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump allowed 3 Chinese spy balloons to fly over the US, did nothing, and didn't even alert Americans, and let knowledge of these incursions to be buried.

For Trumpsters now to continue yammering and complaining about Biden and calling him "compromised by the Chinese" is garishly and brazenly hypocritical, hyperpartisan, and completely disingenuous given the realities of what transpired during Trump's tenure.

The tl;dr on what I just said is STFU.[/quote]

Well they’re now backtracking that spin, so you look dumb. [/quote]

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Yep.  So much for the desperate whatabouting.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-officials-deny-chinese-spy-balloons-flew-above-u-s-on-their-watch/ar-AA178Ixz[/quote]
Ha! Even Political says Dems are lying about this. Thank you for the link, PP.[/quote]

Yep.  We have multiple officials ON THE RECORD saying this never happened.

We have  unnamed defense officials claiming it did.  Until they go on the record and provide details, they are not to be believed.

[quote]The difference, Defense Department officials said, is that those balloons never stayed above U.S. territory for a significant period of time. When pressed for specifics, such as the date, location and duration of those instances, Biden administration officials refused to provide them citing the classified nature of that information.

Some officials did speak in generalities, however. DoD tracks “hundreds” of balloons every day, but they are typically not deemed a threat. Their presence close to or over the United States would not be brought to the attention of senior leaders unless their behavior was “completely out of the ordinary, like this one,” said one senior Pentagon official.

At lower levels, officials have tracked multiple instances of balloon activity over U.S. territories in recent years. One of the Trump-era balloons hovered over Guam, according to two U.S. officials. And in 2020, the intelligence community assessed that far-smaller balloons detected off the coast of Virginia were Chinese radar-jamming devices, according to a former senior DoD official.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, tweeted Sunday that the office of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had informed his office that “several Chinese balloon incidents have happened in the past few years - including over Florida.”

“Why weren’t they shot down?” he added. “And according to several Trump Admin national security officials - they were never informed of these intrusions by the Pentagon.”[/quote]

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/05/trump-officials-deny-chinese-spy-balloons-00081257[/quote]

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