Former 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:
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.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 5, 2023
It is a lie. We never heard this – ever.
Congress should demand @SecDef tell the truth. Shame on @JakeSullivan46.
“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.
This post was originally published at Zero HedgeJohn 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.
— Carey (@SeriusBall) February 5, 2023
Says emphatically "not during my tenure" pic.twitter.com/Ml99jgVLM7
