ormer President Donald Trump lashed out at a report from an anonymous US Defense Department official who said over the weekend that spy balloons transited over US territory while he was president.
“This never happened. It would have never happened,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday, adding that the Chinese regime “respected us greatly” under his watch.
“It never happened with us under the Trump administration and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately,” Trump added.
“It’s disinformation.“
Trump said the Biden administration is spreading this because “they look so bad, as usual.“
“They are incompetent,” he said. -Fox News
Trump also posted to Truth Social:
So if these anonymous reports are legit, the woke military generals’ version of events is that they have 100% allowed Red China spy balloons to traverse the US for years, not even bothering to inform political leadership, and only shot down this one because the public noticed? OK
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 5, 2023
Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, also says it never happened.
As did Richard Grenell.:
Biden’s DoD is shamelessly using an anonymous source to say that Chinese balloons flew over the US under Trump – and the Trump team allowed it.
It is a lie. We never heard this – ever.
Congress should demand @SecDef tell the truth. Shame on @JakeSullivan46.— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 5, 2023
“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,” said former US National Security adviser John Bolton.
John Bolton, no fan of Trump’s says @JoeBiden and the @DeptofDefense need to provide evidence of Chinese Spy Balloons flying over U.S. during Trump Admin.
Says emphatically “not during my tenure” pic.twitter.com/Ml99jgVLM7— Carey (@SeriusBall) February 5, 2023
Original article: https://summit.news/2023/02/05/its-disinformation-trump-former-officials-slam-anonymous-report-of-chinese-spy-balloons-u
