The Biden administration is planning to brief key officials from the Trump administration regarding last week's Chinese spy balloon incursion and previous ones as well.
National Security Council coordinator John Kirby told reporters on Monday that they have"reached out to key officials and have offered a briefing," though he didn't specify which officials received those invitations.A number of Trump officials, including the former president, have said they were unaware of any instances where a Chinese surveillance balloon impinged on U.S.
"The Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday."They are putting out that a Balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration, in order to take the 'heat' off the slow moving Biden fools. China had too much respect for 'TRUMP' for this to have happened, and it NEVER did.
Regarding the previous apparent incidents, Rep. Michael Waltz told the Washington Examiner in a statement,"Currently, we understand there were incursions near Florida and Texas, but we don’t have clarity on what kind of systems were on these balloons or if these incursions occurred in territorial waters or overflew land," while he told CNN that those incidents occurred under the previous administration.
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