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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“But on Sunday, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital that "U.S. intelligence, not the Biden administration" assesses that "PRC (People's Republic of China) government surveillance balloons transited the continental U.S. briefly at least three times during the prior administration and once that we know of at the beginning of this administration, but never for this duration of time."

The official told Fox News that "this information was discovered after the [Trump] administration left."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chinese-spy-balloons-over-us-during-trump-admin-discovered-after-he-left-office-senior-biden-official.amp

Fox news. Read it and weep.[/quote]

No names, no story[/quote]

You are lazy. It’s all over the place with quotes from Republican Members of Congress quoted by name that they were briefed by military about the balloons during Trump Administration. All the media have confirmed from multiple sources but Pentagon isn’t giving more details publicly. [/quote]
One single example of evidence from a credible news source, please.[/quote]

see post 16:56 you have been answered and you just ignore it.

[b]Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command[/b] 
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You are a very confused troll.  VanHerck was admitting that there were intelligence gaps that resulted in NO ONE from the Trump administration knowing about any balloons.  [u]No one was briefed by the military about balloons during the Trump admin.[/u]  Get it now?   :roll: 
DP[/quote]

So you acknowledge that there were Chinese balloons during the Trump Administration but the Trump people were too distracted or too dysfunctional to know about them? That’s your defense? [/quote]
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoUuEvTXoAE50YV?format=jpg&name=medium[/img][/quote]

:lol:  :lol: 
OMG, the spin and back-slapping is remarkable![/quote]

You mean the spin by Republicans, right?

“The Trump administration had an inconsistent relationship with China. Trump attacked China in a trade war early in his presidency, placing tariffs on a range of products (which induced China to retaliate, prompting Trump to pump $28 billion into the U.S. farming sector to compensate for lost revenue). But by 2019, according to Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, Trump “pleaded” with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him get reelected in 2020, and inked a deal for China to buy significant amounts of the farm products it had turned to other countries to provide after the tariffs (that was why Trump downplayed China’s role in hiding Covid in the early months of 2020). According to former representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Trump also asked congressional leaders to “lay off” Xi, because Trump didn’t want to disappoint Xi.

In contrast, Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have worked to counter China by building Indo-Pacific cooperation, reinforced U.S. support for Taiwan, established export controls on technology that have hamstrung the Chinese semiconductor industry, worked to counter Chinese investment in Africa, and enhanced security cooperation with South Korea and Japan.

But the balloon sparked a frenzy from Republicans insisting that Biden had been weak on China or even was working for China: right-wing talk show host Mark Levin said Biden is “bought and paid for by the Communist Chinese government,” and former president Trump said that Biden “has surrendered American airspace to Communist China.” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said China was showing “that the United States is once-great superpower that’s hollowed out, it’s in decline.” South Carolina Republican representative Joe Wilson—the man who shouted “You lie” at President Obama—said that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris should resign from office because of the balloon.

In fact, U.S. standing in the world has strengthened considerably since Biden took office, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which Trump tried to scuttle, is strong enough that Sweden and Finland want to join.”

Excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 6 newsletter [/quote]

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