The Chinese language spy balloon is down, however questions stay — like, whether or not this has occurred on one other president’s watch … which the Dept. of Protection says it did, pointing to Trump.

Here is the deal … the DoD issued a prolonged assertion Saturday explaining what precisely occurred main as much as an F-22 fighter jet of ours safely taking pictures down the balloon over the Atlantic Ocean, simply outdoors of Surfside Seashore, SC. All of us do not forget that, sure?

They reiterated what everybody had already heard at that time … that the U.S. believes the balloon had been purposely despatched right here by China, and that it was supposed to surveil us.

Nevertheless, in explaining the balloon posed no severe menace to us — apart from breaching our airspace/pushing the boundaries of our sovereignty — the DoD goes on to quote an unnamed protection official … who claims this occurred earlier than underneath DT’s administration.

The nameless official says, “Chinese language balloons briefly transited the continental United States at the very least thrice throughout the prior administration.” There is not any different particulars about when precisely this would possibly’ve occurred, or to what diploma … specifically, did they do full fly-overs???

Within the wake of this Dept. of Protection official getting Trump’s identify within the combine, a handful of former Trump administration officers have come out of the woodwork to disclaim this ever occurred throughout his time in workplace. And we’re speaking heavy hitters — guys who’d know.

The previous Director of Nationwide Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, went on FOX Information to flat-out refute what the DoD has stated publicly … noting, if this had actually occurred throughout the Trump years like they declare — it might’ve been noticed and definitely reported by the media.