>>18289833

If there’s one major negative to the Trump era, it’s that far too many people loved to leak information to the press. It was a problem that plagued him throughout his first term in the White House, which is why the report being circulated by corporate media about three Chinese spy balloons flying over America when he was in office does not ring true.

Fox News Digital Politics Reporter Brooke Singman spoke with multiple former members of the Trump administration. These were no slouches; the list included those who would have definitely known about an incursion into our airspace — former acting-Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper. None of them had heard of spy balloons flying over the nation.

Bolton is the most noteworthy because he is very adversarial with Trump. It’s unlikely he would be covering for the President.

Then, of course, there’s Trump’s own denial. According to her report on Fox News:

Former President Trump and a number of his top national security and defense officials refuted Biden administration officials’ claims that Chinese surveillance balloons briefly transited the continental United States during the Trump administration, saying it “never happened.”

A defense official on Saturday said Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the last administration. But Trump and his officials said that did not occur and criticized the Biden administration for spreading disinformation.

“This never happened. It would have never happened,” Trump told Fox News Digital on Sunday morning, adding that Beijing “respected us greatly” under his leadership.

“It never happened with us under the Trump administration and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately,” Trump said. “Its disinformation.”

The best-case-scenario here is that fake news and the Biden-Harris regime are trying to deflect from the current situation in which a spy balloon was allowed to traverse the entire continental United States without being touched. It was finally shot down yesterday after covering coast to coast.

The worst-case-scenario is that leaks about previous Chinese spy balloons mean the Deep State and their puppets in both military and intelligence departments knew but did not inform the Trump administration. If that’s the case, then our worst fears are being realized while nobody’s paying much attention. It would mean that they are not only working against our best interests — which we’ve known for a while — but that they’re working WITH the Chinese Communist Party to attack America.

https://basedunderground.com/2023/02/05/fake-news-or-treason-either-ccp-balloons-did-not-fly-when-trump-was-in-office-or-the-deep-state-is-working-for-china/

A federal US law prohibiting marijuana users from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Oklahoma has concluded, citing last year’s US Supreme Court ruling that significantly expanded gun rights.

US District Judge Patrick Wyrick, an appointee of former Republican president Donald Trump in Oklahoma City, on Friday dismissed an indictment against a man charged in August with violating that ban, saying it infringed his right to bear arms under the US Constitution’s Second Amendment.

Judge Wyrick said that while the government can protect the public from dangerous people possessing guns, it could not argue that Jared Harrison’s “mere status as a user of marijuana justifies stripping him of his fundamental right to possess a firearm”.

He said using marijuana was “not in and of itself a violent, forceful, or threatening act”, and noted that Oklahoma is one of a number of states where the drug, still illegal under federal law, can be legally bought for medical uses.

“The mere use of marijuana carries none of the characteristics that the nation’s history and tradition of firearms regulation supports,” Judge Wyrick wrote.

Laura Deskin, a public defender representing Mr Harrison, said the ruling was a “step in the right direction for a large number of Americans who deserve the right to bear arms and protect their homes just like any other American”. She called marijuana the most commonly used drug illegal at the federal level.

The US Department of Justice did not respond to request for comment but is likely to appeal.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2023/02/04/us-ban-on-marijuana-users-owning-guns-is-unconstitutional-finds-judge/

>>18289904

A food processing plant in the Canadian province of New Brunswick went up in flames Friday.

Jim LeBlanc, owner of W.E. Acres Crabmeal Ltd., said the structure was a “total loss,” according to the Canadian Television Network.

The fire erupted at about 2 p.m.

LeBlanc told CTV News the fire was started by an explosion in an oil drum.

However, Ronald Cormier, fire chief of the village of Cap-Pelé, said the cause of the fire is still unknown, but that it did not appear to have been arson, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Although Cormier was quoted as saying no one was in the building when the fire started and no one was injured, LeBlanc said four people were inside and that he and one worker suffered minor injuries.

“Myself and one of my co-workers were injured, like burnt… first and second-degree burns. We’ll heal,” he told CTV.

LeBlanc told CTV his co-worker who was injured went to the hospital for treatment of second-degree burns.

The building produces fertilizer and animal feed, LeBlanc said.

Cormier told the CBC six fire departments spent more than four hours fighting the blaze.

According to the CBC, the fire was the fourth fish plant fire in the region including two fires that took place in 2021 and one from 2019.

After the second of the 2021 fires, which took place on two successive weekends, Louise Landry, mayor of the village of Beaubassin-est, said the incidents were unusual, according to CBC.

https://www.westernjournal.com/seafood-processing-plant-goes-violent-blaze-total-loss/