China Spy Balloons Crossed Into U.S. 3 Times During Trump Administration February 5, 2023 Suspected spy balloons from China crossed into the continental United States at least three times during the Trump administration, according to a statement Saturday by the Department of Defense citing an unnamed “senior defense officIal.” “Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration,” the statement noted. Associated Press also reported that one other balloon crossed into the U.S. earlier in the Biden administration. Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/china-spy-balloons-crossed-u-082345593.html
DOD release mentioning 3 others https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3288543/f-22-safely-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-south-carolina-coast/
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) falsely claimed that Trump would never have allowed a China spy balloon from reaching the U.S. “Would Trump have let China fly a spy balloon over our country?” Rep. Jim Jordan asked on Twitter. Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told AP that Chinese surveillance balloons were sighted several times in the past five years. Some of them have been spotted near U.S. military bases in Hawaii, he said, though he did not specify when. Trump himself joined the call for the Biden administration to destroy the most recent balloon in a message Friday on Truth Social, saying: “SHOOT DOWN THE BALLOON.” But he did not discuss his own administration’s experience with China spy balloons.
@redredred Perhaps because they had seen at least three such balloons before during the Trump admin. See my post and links at top level under this question.
@ElwoodBlues first off, Craig Singleton is not a US government official so he has no official standing in this question. Second, the Pacific is a big ocean and claims that Chinese balloon we sighted “near” Hawaii are meaningless. How near? The Chinese certainly have the right to aerial missions over the pacific
This is not nearly the same thing as being over the continental US
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I alluded to that. Is reading difficult for you? “Near Hawaii”;is quite a bit different from directly over our nuclear assets in Montana.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow To be fair, Trump probably never read any of the briefings about the balloons. He was probably on one of his golf courses with a passel of Secret Service agents paying top dollar to his hotels.
@redredred The current topic is speculating on reasons why Trump never mentioned these balloons or ordered them shot down. You have your speculations, I have mine, LOL!!!
@ElwoodBlues @ElwoodBlues Yup, we know, President Trump never did anything about the thousands of chicom party balloons floating all over America, and you left-wing nut-job marxists never uttered a word about it, eh? Any more bullschiff you wanna babble about?
