{"id":1043,"date":"2023-02-07T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:40:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:40:50","slug":"its-disinformation-trump-former-officials-slam-anonymous-report-of-chinese-spy-balloons-under-their-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s Disinformation\u201d: Trump, Former Officials Slam Anonymous Report Of Chinese Spy Balloons Under Their Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ormer President Donald Trump lashed out at a report from an anonymous US Defense Department official who said over the weekend that&nbsp;spy balloons transited over US territory while he was president.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Trump_Rally_21269060295711-700x420_3.jpg?itok=XQ9tDyDa\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis never happened. It would have never happened,\u201d Trump told&nbsp;<em>Fox News<\/em>&nbsp;on Sunday, adding that the Chinese regime \u201crespected us greatly\u201d under his watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt never happened with us under the Trump administration and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>It\u2019s disinformation.<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Trump said the Biden administration is spreading this because \u201c<strong>they look so bad, as usual.<\/strong>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThey are incompetent,\u201d he said. -Fox News<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also posted to Truth Social:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/FoN0JLEWYAANzS1.jpg?itok=DuW824WP\" alt=\"\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/FoN0JLEWYAANzS1.jpg?itok=DuW824WP\" alt=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if these anonymous reports are legit, the woke military generals&#8217; 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1622306167690039298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe,&nbsp;<strong>also says it never happened<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bnv277L297\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/11.2.0\/svg\/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/11.2.0\/svg\/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As did Richard Grenell.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden\u2019s DoD is shamelessly using an anonymous source to say that Chinese balloons flew over the US under Trump \u2013 and the Trump team allowed it.<br><br>It is a lie. We never heard this \u2013 ever.<br><br>Congress should demand&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecDef<\/a>&nbsp;tell the truth. Shame on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeSullivan46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JakeSullivan46<\/a>.\u2014 Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/1622256820277620736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know of any balloon flights by any power over the United States during my tenure, and I\u2019d never heard of any of that occurring before I joined in 2018,\u201d said former US National Security adviser John Bolton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Bolton, no fan of Trump&#8217;s says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeptofDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DeptofDefense<\/a>&nbsp;need to provide evidence of Chinese Spy Balloons flying over U.S. during Trump Admin.<br><br>Says emphatically &#8220;not during my tenure&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ml99jgVLM7\">pic.twitter.com\/Ml99jgVLM7<\/a>\u2014 Carey (@SeriusBall)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeriusBall\/status\/1622288311959298049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/02\/05\/its-disinformation-trump-former-officials-slam-anonymous-report-of-chinese-spy-balloons-u\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/02\/05\/its-disinformation-trump-former-officials-slam-anonymous-report-of-chinese-spy-balloons-u<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ormer President Donald Trump lashed out at a report from an anonymous US Defense Department official who said over the weekend that&nbsp;spy balloons transited over US territory while he was president. \u201cThis never happened. It would have never happened,\u201d Trump told&nbsp;Fox News&nbsp;on Sunday, adding that the Chinese regime \u201crespected us greatly\u201d under his watch. \u201cIt never happened with us under the Trump administration and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately,\u201d Trump added. \u201cIt\u2019s disinformation.\u201c Trump said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}