{"id":1836692,"date":"2023-02-06T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836692"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:38:55","slug":"ex-dni-ratcliffe-rejects-claim-3-chinese-spy-balloons-hovered-over-u-s-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-dni-ratcliffe-rejects-claim-3-chinese-spy-balloons-hovered-over-u-s-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DNI Ratcliffe Rejects Claim 3 Chinese Spy Balloons Hovered Over U.S. Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-dni-ratcliffe-rejects-claim-3-chinese-spy-balloons-hovered-over-u-s-under-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836692&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1242112222-scaled-e1675617716921.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Director of National Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-ratcliffe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ratcliffe<\/a> The claim that three Chinese spy satellites had been launched by the Chinese has been rejected \u201ctransited\u201d the United States during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>An alleged Chinese balloon traveled across the lower 48 US states, before being shot off the Carolina coast on Saturday. \u201cunprecedented national security blunder of incalculable damage,\u201d Ratcliffe said during <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v28fmmk-john-ratcliffe-the-biden-administration-committed-an-unprecedented-blunder-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview with Fox News<\/a> Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Anchor Maria Bartiromo asked Ratcliffe to reply to the Department of Defense claim that three Chinese spy balloons entered U.S. Airspace during Trump&#8217;s administration. They were not shot down and were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not true. I can refute it,\u201d Ratcliffe replied. He stated that his view was supported by other Trump administration officials. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/suspected-chinese-balloon-over-us-02-04-23\/h_1f1e4d057e1aa906e5ef3b686e63527b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Esper, former Defense Secretary<\/a>He said that he doesn&#8217;t recall Chinese surveillance balloons flying over the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/suspected-chinese-balloon-over-us-02-04-23\/h_1f1e4d057e1aa906e5ef3b686e63527b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senior U.S. Defense Official<\/a> said Chinese government surveillance balloons \u201ctransited the continental United States briefly at least three times during the prior administration and once that we know of at the beginning of this administration, but never for this duration of time,\u201d CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe insisted the American people can refute the Biden administration\u2019s claim for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you remember during the Trump administration when photographers on the ground and commercial airline pilots were talking about a spy balloon over the United States that people could look up and see even with the naked eye and that the media that hated Donald Trump wasn\u2019t reporting? I don\u2019t remember that either because it didn\u2019t happen,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>Trump himself <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/109812699029727017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issued a denial<\/a> On Sunday, he shared the following on his social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration,\u201d Trump posted to Truth Social. \u201cThey are only good at cheating in elections, and disinformation \u2014 and now they are putting out that a Balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration, in order to take the \u2018heat\u2019 off the slow moving Biden fools. China had too much respect for \u2018TRUMP\u2019 for this to have happened, and it NEVER did. JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first time the U.S. government published publicly was in 2005. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chinese-spy-balloon-hovering-over-united-states-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recognized a suspected reconnaissance balloon<\/a> On Thursday, it was spotted above Billings, Montana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-we-know-about-the-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-flying-over-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Near a military base<\/a> that houses 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles\u00a0after it traveled above the Aleutian Islands and through Canada.<\/p>\n<p>While China\u2019s government claimed the balloon was a \u201ccivilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes\u201d It was essentially a miscalculation. The Pentagon rejected this explanation on Friday and called it a misunderstanding. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-is-maneuverable-has-changed-direction-at-60000-feet-pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maneuverable<\/a>\u201d surveillance balloon. The Pentagon also expressed concern about the possibility of a balloon being shot down from high above land, creating a hazardous debris field that could pose a threat to those below.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was hit off the coast South Carolina&#8217;s on Saturday. This moment was caught on video. The balloon was brought down by one sidewinder missile of the A9X air-to-air sidewinder missile. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-video-emerges-of-chinese-spy-balloon-being-shot-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a senior U.S. Military official<\/a>. According to the Pentagon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Transcripts\/Transcript\/Article\/3288618\/senior-defense-official-and-senior-military-official-hold-an-off-camera-on-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recovery operation would be next<\/a>. China\u2019s foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Responded by condemning<\/a> The United States \u201can excessive reaction that seriously violates international convention\u201d And warned Beijing \u201cretains the right to respond further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe, a former U.S. congressman who served as the nation\u2019s spy chief from May 2020 until the end of Trump\u2019s administration in January 2021, called it an \u201cincredibly successful intelligence operation\u201d For China. He said that other foreign adversaries like Russia, Iran, and North Korea were watching and likely to follow suit. \u201cthrilled\u201d They are amazed at the opportunities this scenario offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe The claim that three Chinese spy satellites had been launched by the Chinese has been rejected \u201ctransited\u201d the United States during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. An alleged Chinese balloon traveled across the lower 48 US states, before being shot off the Carolina coast on Saturday. \u201cunprecedented national security blunder &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1836098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[17521,4117,4893,7968,17787,7858,5009,6893,3634,7238],"class_list":["post-1836692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-balloons","tag-chinese","tag-claim","tag-ex-dni","tag-hovered","tag-ratcliffe","tag-rejects","tag-spy","tag-trump","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}