Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo absolutely blasted President Biden for his botched handling of the Chinese spy balloon fiasco; he says it brought “global shame.”
“The whole world saw a slow-moving balloon transiting Montana, Kansas, South Carolina — and the United States of America did nothing,” Pompeo, who is expected to run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, told The Hill in an interview published Tuesday.
Pompeo adds Biden handed China “an enormous geo-political advantage.”
“I can’t imagine that the risk of some falling debris over a place like Montana exceeded the risk of global shame,” Pompeo told the outlet.
From The New York Post:
The spy balloon was first detected entering US airspace near Alaska on Jan. 28 but its presence wasn’t known to the public until the aircraft was spotted hovering over Montana on Feb. 1.
For the next three days, the balloon sailed over key military installations until two US Air Force F-22 fighter jets downed it off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4.
Biden has said he gave the order to shoot down the balloon on Feb. 1, but was advised by the military to wait until it reached the Atlantic, where it could be downed safely and the debris recovered.
More over at The New York Post:
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