The Balloon Blindness of Team Trump

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But on Saturday, Ric Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, ruled out that possibility. “They are putting out that a Balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration,” Trump wrote. On Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo interviewed John Ratcliffe, another former Trump director of national intelligence. “Not a single person in the Trump administration at the highest levels of authority ever heard of it,” Huckabee scoffed on Monday. “The Trump people who were actually there” should be briefing Biden’s team, not the other way around, he scoffed.
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Stephen Gallacher has struggled this season and is battling to hang on to his DP World Tour card. It can turn around so quickly in this game - I’ve seen it happen. “I’m one of those guys who’d rather say it face-to-face,” declared Gallacher, who rarely posts on Twitter or other social media platforms. Advertisement Hide AdAnd what about the new Stephen Gallacher Foundation Centre of Excellence, which is based at Kingsfield Golf Centre on the outskirts of Linlithgow? Advertisement Hide AdStephen Gallacher is extremely proud of how his junior foundation has grown since it was launched just over a decade ago.

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