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Trump SWEARS He Was Never Told Of Chinese Spy Balloons During Presidency
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Donald Trump and his Republican allies have gone from playing offense to defense after it was revealed that multiple Chinese "spy balloons" flew over the US during Trump's presidency, with Trump now claiming that he was never informed of this. Many other members of his cabinet are also saying they never knew of this, even though those reports have now been confirmed by the Pentagon. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why the Pentagon might have wanted to keep this info secret, especially after we saw the GOP response.
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The drama over the Chinese spy balloon continues, especially now that we know the Pentagon has in fact confirmed that there were at least three separate incidents during the Trump administration when a Chinese spy balloon floated across the United States. And what makes that incredibly funny is the fact that on Friday, of course, Donald Trump got on truth, social and simply posted shoot down the balloon followed, of course, a couple days later by this statement, the Chinese would never have floated the blimp balloon over the United States if I were president. And then of course, we immediately find out that yes, the Chinese flu balloons over the United States while you were president, as recently as the year 2019, and again, it happened three times. The Pentagon has confirmed it. Other Republican lawmakers seeking answers have now confirmed it, including Republican representative Michael Waltz from the state of Florida who was seeking to vindicate Trump only to find out that yep, those balloons did in fact fly over the United States while he was president.
You still have people like Mark Esper, John Bolton, who say that we were never told of the balloon flying over the United States. And of course, Donald Trump after it was revealed that the balloon was over the United States while he was president, sent this out. Now they're putting out that a balloon was put up by China during the Trump administration in order to take the heat off the slow moving Biden fools. China had too much respect for Trump for this to have happened, and it never did just fake disinformation. And he put his name there in all caps and of course had the little quotes around it for some reason. But that's what he put on true social because China loved him so much, they wouldn't have had the audacity to fly a balloon over the United States. And they loved him so much that they gave him and his daughter Ivanka, uh, dozens of trademarks in the country of China while he was president of the United States.
So, yeah, they did love you. They didn't like your trade war, which for the record, as I love to point out, is still going on and nobody seems to care. However, the balloons did in fact fly over the United States while Donald Trump was president. So now that's open a whole new can of worms. Why was Donald Trump not informed of this? Why was John Bolton and Mark Esper in the dark? And I I, I think this past week gave us our answer to that. I think Donald Trump's post, the first one I read here, gave us the answer to that where Trump angrily posted on truth social shoot down the balloon, Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert calling to shoot down the balloon urging private citizens to start firing at the balloon tens of thousands of feet in the air. That's probably why you
Weren't told that the balloon was over the United States, because you are not very smart. All of you are angry, knee jerk, crazy people. And that was your reaction to this, and it would've been your reaction had this been revealed during the Trump administration. So yes, I I I'm not gonna fault the Pentagon for not spilling the beans on this because the Trump administration would've gone insane trying to shoot the thing down. I mean
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