{"id":1837218,"date":"2023-02-06T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837218"},"modified":"2023-02-06T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T20:08:57","slug":"blame-trump-the-deep-states-latest-defense-of-bidens-chinese-spy-balloon-ineptitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blame-trump-the-deep-states-latest-defense-of-bidens-chinese-spy-balloon-ineptitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Trump: The Deep State\u2019s Latest Defense Of Biden\u2019s Chinese Spy Balloon Ineptitude"},"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%2Fblame-trump-the-deep-states-latest-defense-of-bidens-chinese-spy-balloon-ineptitude%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=1837218&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<p>Donald J. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-loses-it-again-trump-gets-2-scoops-ice-cream-joseph-curl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">couldn\u2019t even get a second scoop of ice cream<\/a> without legacy media and anonymous sources going into hysterics, but now the Deep State is trying to convince the American people that Chinese spy balloons flew overhead during the Trump administration on several occasions \u2014 without the public so much as hearing a peep about the incident from government leaders.<\/p>\n<p>As if that wasn\u2019t insulting enough, the running defense of the Biden administration\u2019s incompetence over the most recent Chinese spy balloon is that the international embarrassment is all Trump\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>Americans were shocked to hear that a huge inflatable surveillance device was located high above Montana. \u201cWhy hasn\u2019t it been shot down yet?\u201d Deep State officials informed lapdog media that similar situations occurred under Trump and that no action was taken. This set the precedent for President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has happened a handful of other times over the past few years, to include before this administration,\u201d Official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/03\/chinese-balloon-aerial-surveillance-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> The Washington Post Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Many Trump officials are now following suit <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/05\/trump-denies-any-chinese-spy-balloons-under-his-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rushed<\/a> To defend the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Former Acting Director, United States National Intelligence Ric Grienell, former Director, National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper all said that it never happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even former National Security Advisor John Bolton \u2014 who by all accounts detests Trump \u2014 came out and said it never occurred.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like it had been invented by someone in the Biden administration. Another official stated that spy balloons had been discovered \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/an-explanation-for-why-trump-never-shot-down-chinese-spy-balloons-emerges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after Trump left office.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>How convenient<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Next, there was something that raised even more eyebrows on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Waltz, a Republican from Florida, claimed that some Trump officials believe that James Mattis, the former Secretary for Defense, did not inform the 45th president of the spy balloons. This is because of Trump&#8217;s potential erratic behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy office has been briefed by the office of the Secretary of Defense of the current Pentagon that it happened over Florida, it happened over Texas, and that it\u2019s happened before,\u201d Waltz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rCQraV6M1Xs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> Fox Business\u2019s Stuart Varney. \u201cWe have more detailed questions but what is unclear, Stuart, at this point is, did the Pentagon under the Trump administration brief the Trump White House and give them the option to take action or did they decide not to brief them for whatever reason?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waltz stated that he will investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there is some speculation, I talked to Trump administration officials over the weekend, that the Pentagon deliberately did it because they thought Trump would be too provocative and too aggressive,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rCQraV6M1Xs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>. \u201cSo that\u2019s what we need to get to the bottom of and one person that I\u2019m waiting to hear from that we haven\u2019t heard from that list is former Secretary of Defense, General Mattis who was the secretary during this time period. What did he know and what did he decide to pass on and brief to the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To recap, the alleged explanations regarding Chinese spy balloons under Trump are that, he knew and did nothing, the intel community failed to detect the balloons until after Trump left office, or that information was purposefully withheld from Trump \u2014 thereby potentially breaking chain-of-command.<\/p>\n<p>The Deep State is the most likely to have told Trump, among all three.<\/p>\n<p>We already know that the career officials in the U.S. government lied to Trump in the past in order to advance its policies and halt his America First agenda \u2014 such as when it hid the number of troops in Syria from the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,\u201d Jim Jeffrey was a former U.S. diplomat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2020\/11\/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record\/170012\/\">Avowed<\/a> \u201cNever Trumper\u201d In the final days of Trump&#8217;s presidency, they were admitted.<\/p>\n<p>The Swamp&#8217;s latest disclosure about Trump not being open with him would not be surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Never lose sight of the brazenness with which the Deep State attempted to subvert the will of the American people, who elected Trump as their leader. Now, even after he has left office, it seems they are trying to smear his presidency to excuse Biden\u2019s ineptitude.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald J. Trump couldn\u2019t even get a second scoop of ice cream without legacy media and anonymous sources going into hysterics, but now the Deep State is trying to convince the American people that Chinese spy balloons flew overhead during the Trump administration on several occasions \u2014 without the public so much as hearing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1837221,"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":[541],"tags":[9941,17453,3706,6442,4117,3998,8263,6893,5090,3634],"class_list":["post-1837218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-deep","tag-balloon","tag-bidens","tag-blame","tag-chinese","tag-defense","tag-ineptitude","tag-spy","tag-states","tag-trump"],"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\/1837218","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}