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That's a huge load of bullshit! They are just trying to save face or concealing the truth about what happened during Shitlers term!
There are already multiple articles from reputable news sources that contradict the Pentagon's claims. They always do this, obfuscate and allow confusion to take care of things, so we cannot get to the bottom of these matters!
(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.
“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.
“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”
VanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”
A senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.
Trump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.
After the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.
“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”
The latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.
“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.” >

Fake disinformation? So actually truthful information? >

He has the best words. >

An "awareness gap" is a good description of Trump in general. >

That would be a great name for his biography. >

Though that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name…. >

Mein Covfefe >

Holy shit. It's perfect. >

Was the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron? >

The Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. 
Somebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who. >

Who was running the Pentagon during his presidency? >

Esper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point. >

Yeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here. >

Not calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose. >

I hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace. >

So which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot?  Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests?  Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised?  
I mean by all means investigate.  Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile. >

They're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.
Edit: typos. >

I know they've been going after the military lately but this turn to anti-law/anti-military/anti-government is wild for an ideology flip.  Especially considering that's their base generally. >

The gop like to worship guns and soldiers yet politically they do all they can to avoid giving help/funding to vets.
All the cons do is flip ideologies, depending on whatever is most convenient…
Conservative politics:


Anti-law: not new


Anti-military: not new


Anti-government: not new


Also it doesn’t matter what their base is, they just lie to their faces. Vet medical care is a great example of this, same with 9/11 first responders being denied care for the years following that event.
This is what it means to have no platform. All they do is play contrarian while grifting the fuck out of whoever they can in order to stack money and influence. >

Esper: We would have shot that down immediately!
Pentagon: There were three that went over the US during your time in office. No one shot them down
Esper: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States…”
Pentagon: Maybe they would have if you were doing your fucking job… >

This is one of those "as per my last email" moments >

I'm using awareness gap next time I forget plans. >

i have an awareness gap the size of the pacific >

I feel like we’ve been living in an awareness gap since Trump rode down that escalator. >

Translation: Incompetence >

the next time my toddler plugs his ears and stomps his feet to avoid hearing bad news i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” 
the next time i forget to do part of my job and my boss calls me on it i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” 
the next time i change lanes and plow someone off the road cause i wasn’t looking, i’m gonna call it “an awareness gap” 
how many of these do you think i’ll get away with?? >

The toddler one for sure. What's he gonna do about it? >

Well, then blame whoever was in charge of the military at that time....now who was that again? >

Hard to see anything going on when your eyes are filled with Cheeto dust >

We spent over 700 billion dollars per year on the military while Trump was president. How the fuck did we miss 3 gigantic balloons floating above us? >

Was that "awareness gap" approximately the size of a bloated narcissist who wears lifts and a diaper under an ill-fitting suit? >

Hrm I wonder what kind of bullshit excuse can I make up that serves my believes but also props up trump? >

Wait until they find out about the kites…. >

I guess they were too focused on the mineshaft gap. >

I call bullshit >

Well…they were obviously more concerned about the “Trump Baby” balloon! >

How much funding do they get again? >

Gen. Mattis said they knew but didn't tell Trump because they were afraid of how he might react.
THEY KNEW. >

Honest question: If there were 3 other balloons you didn’t detect, how do you know you missed them? How do you know we didn’t catch on until balloon number 34? >

“Awareness gap” 
Trump’s whole 4 year Presidency said in 2 sentences. >

I believe you meant "Awareness. Gap." >

A roughly 4 year awareness gap. >

A gap caused by a traitorous orange menace asking them to ignore it.. >

are they calling "shit" awareness gap now? >

Lol... >

Awareness gap lmao shots fired >

Trump is an awareness gap >

Yea the “awareness gap” was Trump inviting them in. >

I’m using this next time my wife gets pissed at me for not bringing the laundry upstairs >

And those three were also blown off course in an accident… right? >

Every hour on the hour I’m seeing a Trump balloon post in the r/politics and r/us_politics channel and I keep thinking who is Trump and why do we care? >

T + rump, so I'm guessing some portmanteau of trumpeting ass >

they were too focused on dangerous windmills at the time. >

BS ass-covering. >

Didn't Trump fire the Dirigible Task Force his first week in office? >

Awesome, so government doublespeak hasn't gone away since "alternative facts" then. >

Perhaps they had their hands full with a nutjob that wanted to nuke hurricanes instead of being able to do their jobs properly?