Republicans are so dishonest...........

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Suspected Chinese Spy Balloons Crossed Into U.S. 3 Times During Trump Administration

Mary Papenfuss

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Suspected spy balloons from China crossed into the continental United States at least three times while Donald Trump was president, according to a statement Saturday by the Department of Defense citing an unnamed “senior defense official.”

“Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration,” the statement said. The Associated Press also reported that one other balloon crossed into the U.S. earlier in the Biden administration.

None of those four incursions reportedly lasted as long as the trip by the suspected spy balloon that the U.S. military shot down Saturday. And none of the other balloons were apparently blown out of the sky, though that was not immediately confirmed.

In spite of the visits from possible spy balloons while Trump was in office, many Republicans have complained that President Joe Biden didn’t order the most recent balloon shot down quickly enough — or that he shouldn’t have allowed the balloon to enter U.S. airspace to begin with.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claimed that Trump would never have allowed a Chinese spy balloon to reach the U.S.

“Would Trump have let China fly a spy balloon over our country?” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked on Twitter.

Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told AP that Chinese surveillance balloons were sighted several times in the past five years. Some of them have been spotted near U.S. military bases in Hawaii, he said, though he did not specify when.

In a message Friday on Truth Social, Trump himself joined the call for the Biden administration to destroy the most recent craft, saying: “SHOOT DOWN THE BALLOON.” But he did not discuss his own administration’s experience with suspected Chinese spy balloons.

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and likely Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley also beat up on Biden for not taking more immediate action, but likewise failed to address incidents involving balloons in the last administration.

Shoot down the balloon. Cancel Blinken’s trip. Hold China accountable.

Biden is letting China walk all over us. It’s time to make America strong again.

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 3, 2023

 

them calling out biden when they did worse is about like lying..............

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Fiddy, you can almost count on there being a worse thing under trump for just about anything out there. 

trump had to be, without question, the worst President since Carter.

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2 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

them calling out biden when they did worse is about like lying..............

Is this a general statement or confined to the spy balloon?

2 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

“Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration,” the statement said. The Associated Press also reported that one other balloon crossed into the U.S. earlier in the Biden administration.

None of those four incursions reportedly lasted as long as the trip by the suspected spy balloon that the U.S. military shot down Saturday. And none of the other balloons were apparently blown out of the sky, though that was not immediately confirmed.

Did this part of the article escape you fiddy?  I don’t think briefly is as long as eight days of China’s interference.  Jake Tapper has one of those lying Republicans on his show today.  Here is what he said:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/02/05/marco-rubio-suspected-spy-balloon-trump-administration-sotu-vpx.cnn

Even Buttigieg said it was unacceptable on Jake Tapper’s broadcast.

It happened on Trump’s watch when it never rose to the level of being public FOR EIGHT DAYS is really not relevant to this situation.

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Hey, fiddy.  Here is a Republican giving Biden credit for shooting the balloon down:

 

 

[homersapien 12,240]

It's Biden's fault that he has yet to do anything about that pesky jet stream in the atmosphere!  

Right IM4 ? 

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Just now, homersapien said:

It's Biden's fault that he has yet to do anything about that pesky jet stream in the atmosphere!  

Right IM4 ? 

You are a useful fool aren’t you?  The Biden administration knew about this balloon before it made its way to Alaska.  Since they also knew about the *pesky* jet stream they knew it was going to take eight days before it made it off the coast of S.C.  The only problem came is when the skies were clear enough for American citizens to see it in Montana.  Ooops. 

The man is a fool, but he’s your fool.

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41 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

You are a useful fool aren’t you?  The Biden administration knew about this balloon before it made its way to Alaska.  Since they also knew about the *pesky* jet stream they knew it was going to take eight days before it made it off the coast of S.C.  The only problem came is when the skies were clear enough for American citizens to see it in Montana.  Ooops. 

The man is a fool, but he’s your fool.

And Biden told the military to shoot it down. 

They advised it would be better to wait until we could be sure the falling debris would cause no damage.

This suggests to me there was less danger to the country of allowing it to simply float across to the Atlantic than shooting it down over land.

As far as being a "fool", stupid is as stupid does.  I'll take Biden any day over Trump, including in 2024.

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by homersapien

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2 minutes ago, homersapien said:

And Biden told the military to shoot it down. 

They advised it would be better to wait until we could be sure the falling debris would cause no damage.

This suggests to me there was less danger to the country of allowing it to simply float across to the Atlantic than shooting it down over the country.

As far as being a "fool", stupid is as stupid does.  I'll take Biden any day over Trump, including in 2024.

 

Biden told the military after it was spotted in Montana, after it was public.  If Biden, or the military for the matter, had said something before the public knew, he might have saved face.  It now appears, like the stolen documents, he was trying to cover up his inadequacies.  You know, decision be indecision type of an approach.

He still have the option of shooting it down before it got to Alaska in the PACIFIC OCEAN.

I’ll take DeSantis over Biden any day especially in 2024.

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24 minutes ago, homersapien said:

And Biden told the military to shoot it down. 

They advised it would be better to wait until we could be sure the falling debris would cause no damage.

This suggests to me there was less danger to the country of allowing it to simply float across to the Atlantic than shooting it down over the country.

As far as being a "fool", stupid is as stupid does.  I'll take Biden any day over Trump, including in 2024.

 

Doubt he was advised to wait but if that’s the story so it be. Chances of it hitting a boat off the Carolina coast on a Saturday may be better than hitting a person in Montano 

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4 minutes ago, SaltyTiger said:

Doubt he was advised to wait but if that’s the story so it be. Chances of it hitting a boat off the Carolina coast on a Saturday may be better than hitting a person in Montano 

Trump would have waited to see if it drifted over a blue state.

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