Well… as I have said repeatedly, Betsy’s blog postings are where… irony goes — to die.

She whines about a balloon that took photos. Photos that can be (and HAVE BEEN) taken from space — on any clear day, by the Chinese spy satellites. Yes we have proof of this.

Y A W N.

Nah… she does so solely to cover for the fact that as the Wa Po reported over the weekend, but EmptyWheel very helpfully sorted, straightened and clarified… Trump was very likely building a “dossier” on his own appointee, Gen. Milley, after the same fell out of Trump’s good graces.

It is highly likely that we will learn in coming months that Trump showed his classified documents / “dossier” down at Mar-a-Lago — on his nemesis Milley — to at least five people without clearance of any sort, and after Trump was no longer preznit. [These people very likely included preachers and donors. Damn.]

And it was all about undercutting Milley’s efforts to defuse tensions with China. China was worried that Trump would cut loose a nuke with no prior warning. Milley reassured the Chinese counterpart that no such thing would happen [all of this in late November, early December 2020].

So… Elizabeth Stauffer dutifully resurrects the silly “red balloon” scare, as some cover, for the coming tsunami, of Trumpain crimes. Most… 20-years-in-prison crimes.

Sit down, Bitsy.