Posted on 02/04/2023 10:02:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
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“ President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace”
It took that long to decide what gender the balloon is.
They do pay attention to the comments on this site, hence we need to spread the word. This balloon is a Trump 24 campaign gift. It’s the only way they will take it down.
A bigger question is if this is a “weather” balloon, as the CCP claim, and weather is 24/7/365, why have we never seen a “weather” balloon before?
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There’s some activity right now.
Jets and refueling tankers over the eastern seaboard so they may actually do something.
That is most likely correct.
Aside from that, the chicoms want to see our reaction..or lack of reaction.
Where is the NY Times, Washington Post. NBC, ABC, and CBS. Have they no shame?
Something additional needs to be done with our feckless military, particularly the woke Joint Chiefs.
I saw one that said MAGA.
NBD
Our communist masters have a plan that is almost complete...
All we can do is relax and keep grazing blissfully...
Once we are in the camps, we will not need to worry...
It would have been easy to claim it was ours. How the Chicom ID got out is curious.
Faux indignation by a bunch of uniparty globalists. It's safe to express outrage for a) this issue at b) this time.
Where was their outrage re the stolen election? The coverup of slimy biden's addict brat? The travesty of a foreign born manchurian candidate potus when o'bummer was in the white shack?
We're not impressed.
DON’T LOOK UP! (great title for a movie;)
The Biden Crime Family and our HORRIBLE Military “leaders” are OWNED by the CCP!
The Border CRISIS is CLOWARD-PIVEN on Steroids!
Have we EVER had THREE MORE DUMBER people in charge than Biden, Austin and Silly Milley??? NO, and the next group with Kamala are even DUMBER!
First cover story that it was a runaway NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon of Thomas the Tank Engine didn’t have traction.
Then, just another alien spacecraft on the way to do crop circles and abduct people from their beds didn’t work, either.
Finally “We probably should tell the truth to the American people.”
In a 5 to 4 vote the White House staff agreed.
I’m sure my commie BIL and his [even more commie] wife are not at all concerned.
This Administration is useless. It’s also corrupt and dishonest. Impeach Biden.
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