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Trump officials deny Chinese spy balloons flew above U.S. on their watch
1 month ago | By Politico
Biden administration officials on Saturday claimed Chinese spy balloons soared above the United States while former President Donald Trump was in office. Yet officials from that era have responded in singular fashion: Not on our watch. It took just one briefing to shift the debate from President Joe Biden's handling of the aerial vehicle - specifically over the decision not to shoot it down over land - to whether the Trump administration missed multiple illegal Chinese incursions into American airspace. POLITICO spoke with five senior Trump administration officials who said they were never...
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Trump denies spy balloons entered U.S. under his watch
1 month ago | By Boston Herald
Former President Donald Trump says the Department of Defense is wrong when they assert three Chinese spy balloons flew over the U.S. during his term as president.
“It never happened with us under the Trump administration and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday morning.
On Saturday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced in a written statement an F-22 fighter jet had successfully downed what officials at the Pentagon said was a surveillance and reconnaissance balloon controlled by the Chinese government and which had made its way across the...
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