NORAD didn’t tell Trump about the Chinese balloons because he was too inept to stop them
An unnamed US Department of Defense official said over the weekend that Chinese spy balloons transited US territory during the Trump administration and not just during the Biden administration.
Trump and his former administration officials have collectively called the report "Bullshit " saying it "never happened." “Now they are saying a balloon was put up by China during the Trump administration, to take away the 'heat'” the Biden administration, Trump wrote Sunday. "China had too much respect for 'TRUMP' for that to happen, and it NEVER happened."
In response to the entire Trump administration's lack of knowledge of these alleged incursions, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Monday called for a congressional investigation into why the US intelligence community has failed to inform the administration in charge of foreign spy aircraft in transit over US airspace.
If it is true that the Pentagon did NOT intentionally tell President Trump about the Chinese spy balloons during his administration, then we have had a major breach of command during the Trump administration,” Greene tweeted. “POTUS is the commander in chief. We must investigate and hold those who broke ranks accountable.”
“Defense officials now say Chinese spy balloons briefly flew over the US during the Trump administration, but if that's true, WHY is it being reported now?” he asked earlier in the day.
Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton told CNN on Monday that it would be a "serious problem" if there was "any actual knowledge that these balloons were over the United States and higher authority was not informed." ”. “As far as I know, every Trump administration official who has been asked has said they know nothing,” Bolton continued. And Bolton has no reason to protect Trump.
Other members of Congress also had questions;
“Allowing a Communist Party of China spy balloon to travel throughout the continental United States before contesting its presence is a disastrous projection of weakness on the part of the White House,” said Roger Wicker (R-MI), a member of the ranking of the armed services of the Senate. "It is clear that standard protocol for the defense of US airspace has been ignored."
So, cornered, the deep state now suggests that they have simply been incompetent when it comes to detecting foreign spy balloons in real time.
On Monday, NORAD commander Gen. Glen VanHereck told reporters that spy balloons have entered US airspace three times during the Trump administration, but "that we haven't detected those threats," calling it a "gap of dominance awareness.
“Every day as commander of NORAD, it is my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I'll tell you we didn't detect those threats,” VanHereck said. "And this is a domain awareness gap that we need to understand, but I don't want to go into details."
VanHereck went on to say that the US intelligence community was able to determine Trump-era transits after the fact “by additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were either approaching North America or transiting North America ”.
Meanwhile, CNN (who else?) has seen an alleged April 2022 report, titled “People's Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon,” which found that a Chinese spy balloon “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019 at a altitude of about 20,000 feet, and "drifted past Hawaii and through Florida before continuing on its journey."
Air Force assessment obtained by CNN says a spy balloon was “launched and controlled” from China in 2019, proving the country was capable of flying a high-altitude balloon around the world since the days of the administration Trump.
China has "deployed multiple HABs [high altitude balloons] that can operate at 22,000 to 110,000 meters and for months at a time," the assessment adds. And naturally; “It is not clear from the documents when US officials first became aware of the Chinese flights or what they assessed in regards to their purpose.” In short, NORAD did not supervise and, above all, did not report to Trump about these very dangerous incursions.
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