🚨🚨Once again, I first broke the Mark Kelly starting a spy balloon company funded by China's TenCent in 2020.
Then I did another story on it 2023 when the spy balloon was traversing the U.S.
Now @FoxNews giving @Axios credit for breaking this story after my THREE stories from 2020 and 2023.
BUT @Axios never got to the heart of the story and mainly bought into Kelly's excuses for it.
The Axios story also never addressed this:
👉The Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) SUSPENDED the process to grant Kelly's company clearance for U.S. defense work. I have the emails from DCSA and I'll attach to this thread.
I've included the three main stories I wrote below.
Back in 2020, The spokesperson for Kelly's balloon company lied to me that they had secured DCSA's seal of approval.
The DCSA aims to protect U.S. security assets from malign foreign influence.
Here's the three stories I broke on in reverse chronology - the latest, in 2023, and then the two stories I first broke in 2020 on the same topic.
Did U.S. Firms Help Propel China's Balloon Fleet? - 2/24/2023
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Kelly Helped Secure Chinese Tech Giant's Stake in Balloon Firm - 7/9/2020
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Kelly Silent on Firm's Windfall from Chinese Tech Giant - 5/13/2020
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Former astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly started spy balloon company funded by China #FoxNewsrealclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/…
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/…
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/…
foxnews.com/politics/forme…
Here's a screeen shot of the email I got ack from the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency -- @FoxNews you might want to call or email the agency...
@DCSAgov
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🚨‼️Back in Arizona, @SenMarkKelly's China grift is no secret. He shamelessly hawked "Shaklee" vitamins in China, riding his motorcycle on stage while "Danger Zone" played in the background.
Martha McSally made a TV ad out of the videos but still lost her race against Kelly in 2018.
full footage of the Shaklee vitamin ad:
Here's the @NRSC ad about @SneMarkKelly's balloon company after my story about @SenMarkKelly's personal involvement in securing the investment from TenCent, a Chinese telecom conglomerate under fire for working with the CCP suppress human rights violations and other malign activities.
NRSC ad about Sen. Kelly's balloon company:
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