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Oh it most certainly is. Damn Intelligence Community, keeping valuable information from MY President.
Honey if they did that, it was to keep him from wiping his ass with it.
Wow will they not like the answer to that question. >

But the answer is going to be “the deep state hid it from him” >

Even if the answer is "It was in the PDB for 10AUG18, 20APR19 and 11JUN20 which were read to him by Ivanka herself" the answer will be "The deep state hid it from him" >

They probably "hid" it by calling it a potential surveillance apparatus of unknown foreign origin instead of the Trump friendly term of Chinese Spy Balloon. >

Chinese spy "blimp" as trump put it.  He doesnt even have the word balloon in is very limited vocabulary. >

A blimp is bigger than a balloon. Thus a Chinese spy blimp is even more scary and dangerous that just a spy balloon. >

It has been referred to as an airship and it appears to have had some ability to produce thrust, not just changing altitude for directional control as a hot air balloon would.  As it probably did not have a rigid structure, “blimp” would be accurate.  “Zeppelin” is a brand name.  “Dirigible” implies a rigid airframe like the USS Akron or USS Macon. >

Thrust?  You mean some small propellers?  Against jet stream level winds?  Sure. >

It’s standard classification and taxonomy. The Goodyear Blimp has propellers.  A barrage balloon does not. >

I know ... because it wasn't on Fox & Friends! >

It was going to be in his daily briefing, but they had problems with the balloon pop-up book page and had to leave it out. >

"Pop... Pop... Pop-Up News Briefing" doesn't sound as fun as the music video version. >

Trump was unaware of a lot of things to which he should have paid more attention. >

We're probably better off that he didn't know and couldn't be bothered to attempt understand. He already foisted a lot of bad ideas with bad outcomes on us.
What would he have done about the balloons. Nothing. He counted Xi as a friend until about mid-2020. >

There's still a non zero chance he would have tried to nuke it, even over American soil. >

Wow...dude slept until 11 and then tweeted through every briefing. Mystery solved. >

I was gonna say, he probably got the classified memo but just didn’t read it. Too much work. >

He was too busy with his crayons. >

Imagine needing to be the guy whose job it is to praise trump for how well he did in staying within the lines, even though it actually looked like he was making a carbon copy of the next page. >

I could’ve made so much money >

Actually, yes, we would love to hear why trump had no idea. >

prediction: trump will truth out that he totally knew about the balloons the entire time but didn't want to alarm the public. Then claim that he would have shot down this latest balloon ... if he was still president, which he totes should be cuz the election was RIGGED tremendously. >

Naw, he wanted to shoot down the balloons, but the deep state democrats and Hillary's emails prevented him from doing so. 
He would have shot down those balloons like you wouldn't believe. A tremendous shooty downy. >

It was hunter bidens laptop. Not Hillary. >

Nice try my guy, but it’s obvious that Hillary kept her emails ON hunter bidens laptop. And they’re secretly married. Everyone knows this. >

Sssh not EVERYONE knows!!! >

The intelligence community openly admitted they withheld some top secret data from Trump because they were terrified he’d sell it/blurt it out in public. >

Also: 'Intelligence officials say Trump displays what one called “willful ignorance” when presented with analyses generated by America’s $81 billion-a-year intelligence services. The officials, who include analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves, describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible.' >


Three other officials worry about what one of them calls “precipitous troop withdrawals” from Syria and Afghanistan and a peace deal with the Taliban that in time would leave the extremist Islamic group back in charge and wipe out the gains made in education, women’s rights and governance since the U.S. invaded the country more than 17 years ago

Time published that 4 years ago. >

And then Trump negotiated the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners in early 2020. >

Ummm, because Trump wouldn't bother to read his briefing? Maybe? >

MTG launches probe into who farted on the crowded elevator in the Capitol Building. >

"The deep state farted in my pants!" >

Does this mean Hunter Biden laptop made her cheat on her husband??! >

Every time? >

Nice. >

For once I'm in agreement with MTG. I wanna see the Trump Administration's top intelligence officials standing under oath, testifying that they did indeed try to brief Trump several times, but he couldn't understand the briefings. >

Canceling daily intel briefs and informing staff that you trust Putin more than the US Intel community maaayyy have something to do with that.   #justsayin’ >

She just wants to know why we didn't use the jewish space lasers to shoot it down >

Jew here, I can field this one. JSL has a three month wait list right now; I can't remember a time it was less than a month or so, and I check the listings regularly. Even if Jared signed up as soon as the CSB was first sighted, he probably couldn't have gotten any time before it had passed over US territory. And no one wants to use the JSL over the Atlantic--the Atlantans have make their deterrence capabilities quite clear. (See the Rand Corporation's 2019 report on that issue.) >

Too busy getting ready to cause earthquakes in Turkiye? >

That's the mole people. Totally different. I don't fuck with mole people.
(edit: ugh, I made this joke yesterday, before I realized how awful the situation there is. It's really bad, guys.) >

Jesus, I never thought I would ever agree with MTG...
A probe into why Trump was unaware during his whole presidency is exactly what we need!
It would take about 45min and conclude that he was clueless, but hell, it would be a great 45 min!
The dude has his security brief reduced to bullet points for God's sake! >

A stopped clock is right twice a day. >

She wants to be his VP, no way she doesn’t have some fucked up angle here. >

I think she's trying to paint the whole intelligence community as pro-democrat. "POTUS is commander -in-chief and if there was a break in the chain of command, we need to understand why" (paraphrasing MTG from the article) >

Because either A: They didn’t trust him with that knowledge. Or B: They put it in a report that he didn’t read. Do you REALLY want to investigate which it is? >

So basically she is asking the question to the answer she has already decided on. Something, something DEEP STATE! >

This is likely aimed at intelligence agencies, not the former president.