It should come as no surprise that MSNBC hosts repeatedly stated that President Donald Trump “allowed” Chinese spy balloons into U.S. airspace at least three times, despite the dubious nature of the original claim by the Biden administration.
“Donald Trump allowed a balloon to float over Florida in 2019 and didn’t shoot it down. How weak, how sad. How incredibly sad,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough claimed.
The problem with this claim is that it never happened. After the Chinese spy balloon was shot down on Saturday, the Pentagon announced, citing an anonymous official, that “Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration.” But then various Trump officials disputed the story, prompting the Biden administration to backtrack. The new version of the story was that the balloon incidents during the Trump administration weren’t discovered until after the Biden administration took over. Read more…
