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  Deny or deny not.  There is no try.
  (The headline is inaccurate, unless somebody shut him down right before he could get the words out.)
context: Is he saying that he was so unaware as president that he didn’t even know that this happened three times?  Sad! >
  
  They knew better than to tell him. His solution would've been another atmospheric nuclear explosion like the hurricane plan. We've got enough radioisopes floating around already. 
  They kept a lot of information from him, for very good reasons. >
  
  Well, he may also would have come up with a plan to throw Horse-dewormer at it. >
  
  Bleach >
  
  He would've just changed the flight plan with a sharpie. >
  
  The biggest spy balloon of all is Trump himself. >
  
  Same shape, size, full of hot air...
  This checks out >
  
  The biggest gas bag too! >
  
  
  “The Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration. They are only good at cheating in elections, and disinformation,” Trump said in a post on his social network Truth Social.“And now they are 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.”
  
  What a chump and a chronic liar.  In addition to Chinese balloons flying over the USA during Trump's reckless and destructive SINGLE term as a failed president, Trump and his lackeys also handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban by locking the Afghanistan government out of the withdrawal negotiations and releasing Taliban terrorists who had been imprisoned.  Then he withdrew all but 2,500 US troops out and basically handed over the keys to the car in the ditch to Biden.
  Hillary might not be perfect, but I doubt that she would've ran the country into the ground as horribly as Trump did and maybe Trump would've just faded away after losing... >
  
  Biden took full credit and responsibility for the Afghan pullout in interviews multiple times. Even said there was no better option or way to do it. One of the better things he's done honestly, funny how his supporters don't give him credit for it and "blame" Trump for one of the good things Biden's actually done. What a waste that war was, benefitted military contractors more than anything, killed a bunch of their civilians for nothing. >
  
  Killing women and girls that go to school is good? >
  
  Only far-right religious zealots believe that. Unfortunately,some things are beyond our control, and in order to reverse the withdraw, the US would've had to send tends of thousands of troops in because the Taliban was already signalling that they were tired of waiting an were about to mount an offensive.
  Trump extended the pullout just long enough to drop the failure into Biden's lap and the Trump Administration refused to aid in the presidential transition of power. >
  
  The guy lies about everything. >
  
  There's a correlation between the amount of capital letters used and how true Trump's statement is... >
  
  Or in Don Jr's case, air quotes. >
  
  When he says it’s “just fake disinformation” does the that mean that it’s the truth? >
  
  Trump gave Xi classified information while bragging about chocolate cake and waiting for Ivanka’s Chinese trademarks to come through. No balloons needed. >
  
  That means it’s true >
  
  He denies anything and everything that makes him look bad. >
  
  He literally said he deserves all the credit for something that goes well and accepts none of the blame for things that go poorly. >
  
  
  “JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!” he wrote.
  
  Whoa,whoa. Is fake disinformation, true information? >
  
  Maybe check those secret folders down in Florida. >
  
  I can’t figure out if Trump is the George Santos of presidents or if George Santos is the Donald Trump of congressmen. Either way they’re both fucking liars >
  
  To be fair, his daily briefings got so short that it basically became nothing new today, sir. >
  
  Unless they drew him pictures with crayons, he probably did not even notice. But truthfully though, in my book the fact that he is denying it is evidence enough that it happened. >
  
  I’m so sick of this fucking clown >
  
  What a f$&cking chode baby boy Trump is! >
  
  So China sent balloons over the US in Trump’s time to see what he would do (nothing) and then again in Biden’s time to see if anything had changed, and it had.
  This balloon based communication seems really roundabout to me. Heaven forbid they could use their words like adults. >
  
  Didn’t he flat out welcome Russian spy plane flyover of pentagon and White House? >
  
  Why isn't he in jail yet?
  Why are his election denying collaborators still in office? >
  
  Because the powerful have no interest in holding the powerful accountable >
  
  Why does it even matter? The Time and energy spent on bs that has no value is appalling. >
  
  China Trump over here towing the party line.
  Social credit +10 >
  
  It was in the Presidential Daily Brief that HE NEVER EVER READ. >
  
  He lies about everything but people still turn a blind eye and go after people who are working for the future of America and not the demise as he does. He was and will likely remain our most childish, egotistical, pathological liar( mental illness) that we will ever hopefully. Stay in the private lane trump. The people of our country are tired of your lies. >
  
  They didn't need spy balloons....Russia was able to send over their spies for undocumented meetings with him in the oval office  and China was making all his Maga stuff at the same time they were approving trademarks and patents to his family members >
  
  This is the best evidence I’ve seen, and it’s still pretty shitty. >
  
  *Donald Trump Lies. >
  
  In all fairness, he burned out his retinas when he stared at the eclipse like a water head. >
  
  He’s a republican. They can’t admit anything. >
  
  It's entirely possible he didn't know since he rarely attended the daily briefings. >
  
  The media are just so happy to keep Trump in the headlines, nevermind that the shit he spouts is rarely news worthy, let alone worthy of being regurgitated on this subreddit. That period when he got booted off Twitter must have depressed the media terribly. But looks like things are back to how they were before.   
  Stop upvoting this shit. Stop giving them clicks. Stop keeping him relevant. >
  
  He's the leader of the Republican party. >
  
  And a declared candidate for president in 2024 >
  
  Where was The news coverage for this? Why was there no videos on tiktok? >
  
  Because it didn’t happen and democrats are projecting again. The left would’ve crucified him (and probably ‘impeached’ him a third time) if the balloon got as far as it did this time while he was in office three times. >
  
  
  Because it didn’t happen and democrats are projecting again.
  
  Is that why a national security official from the Trump administration just said 'none of the Chinese spy balloons were near sensitive sites or had payloads as large as this one appears to carry'... even though the Pentagon insists they were. You know that long time highly conservative controlled agency that somehow is in the pockets of the Dems all of a sudden. Lol! You guys crack me up. >
  
  Pentagon hasn’t been conservative leaning in years my dude. >
  
  I can't stand the guy, BUT....supposedly Mark Esper said he never heard anything about balloons during his time in the Trump admin. >
  
  Hey everyone, there's more to worry about than Trump. His time is done. Let's focus on other issues that actually affect us. Not someone who lives in your head rent free. >
  
  Trump is still the face of the Republican Party, and is planning run again in 2024. It’s a little difficult to stop talking about him. >
  
  This will appease the hive mind. >
  
  This is the first time I am starting to feel that I am being gaslit.  A GOP govt would have shot down that balloon in a heartbeat.  If the administration claims this, they need to produce proof. >
  
  Who said it happened?   Let me guess. “Anonymous source(s)”? >
  
  The Department of Defense. >
  
  Huh. >
  
  Anything that comes out of the donalds mouth is a lie.  Hes only in politics to save his own ass and the asses of those around him.  If you support him you better be the first in line for him to trample on because thats what he does.  Worst president ever. >
  
  I'm reminded that he was infamous for disregarding the regular security briefings.
  I guess that's why he says that NK and Russia never did anything during his small-p presidency. >
  
  how the hell would he know? >
  
  Of course he did. He’s a Big Fat Liar 🤥 >
  
  Well in his defense the balloon on his shoulders and the one that flew over Montana have the exact same contents. >
  
  How come we didn't hear Maggie Green flapping het mouth back then under Trump to shoot the balloon down then. Oh yeah, China owns Trump as well the GOP. >
  
  As we all knew he would. >
  
  Of course nothings were perfect during his presidency 
  /s fucking obviously >
  
  He probably had no idea lol