The media lapped up President Joe Biden’s administration’s claim that Chinese spy balloons sailed across our country three times during President Donald Trump’s administration.
Trump and his former officials said no Chinese spy balloons floated over the US during his term. Even former National Security Adviser John Bolton, who now despises Trump, said it never happened. From Fox News:
“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. “It’s disinformation.”Trump said the Biden administration is spreading this because “they look so bad, as usual.””They are incompetent,” he said.John Bolton, former Trump White House national security adviser, told Fox News Digital that he never heard of anything like this under his tenure.”I don’t know of any balloon flights by any power over the United States during my tenure, and I’d never heard of any of that occurring before I joined in 2018,” Bolton said. “I haven’t heard of anything that occurred after I left either.”Bolton said that if the Biden administration has “specific examples, they need to tell Congress.”He added, “I can say with 100% certainty, not during my tenure.”
Oh, wait. The Biden administration had the wrong information.
The government discovered the spy balloons after Trump left office because that totally makes sense:
But on Sunday, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital that “U.S. intelligence, not the Biden administration” assesses that “PRC (People’s Republic of China) government surveillance balloons transited the continental U.S. briefly at least three times during the prior administration and once that we know of at the beginning of this administration, but never for this duration of time.”The official told Fox News that “this information was discovered after the [Trump] administration left.””They went undetected,” the official told Fox News Digital.
Then the official was like (and I’m paraphrasing), “Oh, this happens a lot and we’ve seen these spy balloons across other continents.”
The official concluded, “Two things can be true at once: this happened, and it wasn’t detected.”
Then say that the first time. Don’t be so petty.
Also, it sounds childish to bring up past experiences. “Well, it happened during so and so’s administration so there.” Grow up.
JOHN BOLTON, who wants Trump to stay far away from DC, even denies it. You don’t think he would have jumped on the chance to make Trump look incompetent, too?
Also, we normal people in flyover country aren’t stupid. Do you think we’d believe that Chinese spy balloons flew over America three times during the Trump administration and no one went to the Pentagon? Warmongerer Bolton would have shot down the balloons in a heartbeat.
A ton of leaks happened during Trump’s administration. Something like a spy balloon over our country would have been leaked.
Weird. Politico reported late Sunday night that the Biden administration has offered to brief former Trump officials on “newly discovered information” about Chinese spy balloons that supposedly happened during his administration.
An official said: “This information was discovered after the prior administration left. The intelligence community is prepared to offer key officials from the Trump administration briefings on [China’s] surveillance program.”
The official added they can also tell the former officials about “Beijing’s similar operations in East Asia, South Asia and Europe over the last several years.”
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