Can the Biden administration get worse and be more of a complete clown show? Apparently so. Chinese Communist Party balloons are wafting through American (and Latin American) airspace completely undeterred because . . . well, we can all only speculate about what the “big guy” was thinking.
Here’s our previous coverage:
Apparently, the Biden admin hoped no one would notice or that it would not be picked up by the Democrat activist media if it were noticed.
President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace — but kept the incursion secret, fearing it would derail Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.Republicans expressed “outrage” over the president’s refusal to act.“Communist China’s surveillance balloon violates international law and threatens our homeland,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) told The Post.“It’s an outrage that the Biden Administration spotted this balloon days ago as it was flying over the Aleutian Islands and did nothing about it,” she said. “The president has not even made a comment about this unacceptable act of aggression by the CCP.” The politics of the looming 2024 presidential election also played a role in Biden’s actions, sources told Bloomberg, with the fraught US-China relationship expected to be a central foreign policy issue.Team Biden became aware of the balloon on Jan. 28, Bloomberg reported, when it was spotted over Alaska.The US military tracked it as it flew into Canadian airspace, then re-entered American skies on Tuesday. The next day, Biden received a detailed briefing on the balloon and its course, attended by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
Oh, great, with those two on the case, we’ll have 99 CCP aloft balloons in our airspace in no time. But it seems these three destroyers of America’s national security have put their anti-American grey matter together and determined that the optics are just not good.
Time to “take care of it.” Reportedly by shooting it down . . . somewhere off the coast of the Carolinas.
President Joe Biden said Saturday that his administration would “take care” of the Chinese spy balloon that has been hovering over the U.S. in the past few days, when asked by a reporter as he deplaned Air Force One. “We’re going to take care of it,” Biden said, the first time he had spoken on camera about the balloon, NBC News reported. He did not say what his administration planned to do.The Associated Press reported meanwhile that the administration is considering a plan to shoot the balloon down once it is above the Atlantic Ocean where the remnants could potentially be recovered, according to four U.S. officials. The officials spoke to The AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation. The officials told The AP that it was unclear whether a final decision had been made by Biden. The Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday afternoon that it was pausing departures and arrivals at three airports, in North and South Carolina, to support the Department of Defense in a “national security effort.””The FAA has paused departures from and arrivals to Wilmington (ILM), Myrtle Beach International (MYR) and Charleston International (CHS) airports to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort,” it said in a statement.The balloon is suspected of conducting surveillance on the U.S. military.
Apparently (as I was prepping this post), the Biden administration decided to shoot it down and has done so.
This is a national security disaster of the first order, and Biden looks like an addled and worthless leader (or worse a stooge of the CCP) for permitting Communist China to fly unimpeded across the entire expanse of our great country (from Alaska, apparently, all the way to the Carolinas). What a disgrace.
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