Exclusive — Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke
on Chinese Spy Balloon: ‘An Embarrassment
We Took No Action’
Breitbart Politics,
by
Kristina Wong
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/3/2023 8:59:38 PM
Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke (R) called the Biden administration allowing the Chinese to float a spy balloon into the United States’s airspace “an embarrassment.”
“I think it’s an embarrassment that we took no action, not even diplomatically and say, you know, ‘Warning, warning warning, don’t do this. We’re gonna follow it,'” he told Breitbart News on Friday in an exclusive phone interview.
“But just to have it drift up here, and for days loitering — I think it shows that we are ineffective,” he said.
A senior defense official told reporters Thursday said the military considered shooting it down as it drifted over “sparsely populated areas in Montana,” but that, “we just couldn’t
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Phantomll 2/3/2023 9:19:36 PM (No. 1394234)
We're being invaded across our southern border and now from the air and nothing is being done! Biden needs to be charged with dereliction of duty and treason!
79 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/3/2023 9:35:51 PM (No. 1394244)
Is it over for America?
26 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 2/3/2023 10:10:49 PM (No. 1394274)
This is what Brandon’s leadership looks like.
46 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 2/3/2023 10:44:28 PM (No. 1394293)
The "we took no action" is Biden and General Milley, both Chinese appeasers. Democrats, not to worry. Biden and son's businesses with the Chinese are safe. Chinese money will continue to flow in. The FBI and CIA are rotten with spies and informers so, of course, no action will be taken.
48 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
judy 2/3/2023 10:48:34 PM (No. 1394298)
Someone said if it had a red hat it would have been shot down immediately!
31 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
TCloud 2/3/2023 10:48:47 PM (No. 1394299)
Whut a bunch of liberal weenies out there in DC!
30 people like this.
Why wouldn't Biden let them float a spy balloon, THEY OWN HIM.
46 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 2/4/2023 4:39:46 AM (No. 1394374)
Perhaps, as these affronts to our country continue, enough Democrats will vote to get rid of the ship of fools running the country.
12 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 2/4/2023 5:30:57 AM (No. 1394396)
Truth is Jill could not make a decision what to do.
15 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Krause 2/4/2023 6:04:50 AM (No. 1394403)
There is no patriotism in this administration. All the democrats care about is the next election, in order to maintain power. Their goals are to eliminate Trump, and to scare the people into voting for them with things like climate change. These people are totally over employed. The whole democrat party is a cancer on our country.
35 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
watashiyo 2/4/2023 6:19:50 AM (No. 1394408)
Doorknob Hussein would've done the same. He'll be too busy trying to save bogey at the par 3.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lazyman 2/4/2023 7:51:03 AM (No. 1394454)
Poor Biden and America victims of Blackmail. What does China have on him?
12 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
walcb 2/4/2023 8:00:07 AM (No. 1394459)
Couldn't someone just get in their private plane with a BB gun?
8 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/4/2023 8:02:37 AM (No. 1394462)
I was shocked - - when I aimed my telescope at the balloon - - and I saw David Niven and Cantinflas.
Looks like they're going to win their bet!
7 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
singermom9 2/4/2023 8:43:49 AM (No. 1394494)
So now tyrannical dictator joey has committed TREASON 2 times-1) negating our sovereign airspace AND 2) allowing an invasion from both Southern and Northern border. (Yeah dems, you got this. S/O I bet your ENTERTAINMENT alphabet channels are not even telling you abt this).
The admin KNEW this thing was coming for 3 months. They should have shot it down BEFORE it reached land or over Alaska
Biden probably got paid to let this thing fly over Am as long as it wants. China probably paid biden to NOT shoot it down. THIS is how much biden cares abt Am and its people. He gets millions. Today he is going for a long weekend and our military will TRACK this thing and have a mtg next week to figure out what to do. Good job dems. They knew this thing was coming for 3 months. Could have shot it down over the water or Alaska. Joey never thought we would know. Wonder how many millions he got paid to destroy Am? TRAITOR.
15 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Firebase 2/4/2023 8:52:29 AM (No. 1394502)
Someone needs to just fly up in a plane with side opening windows and shoot it down with a rifle, do NORAD, Pentagon, Biden's jobs for them. Biden would naturally have a meltdown and start hurling threats. Not doing anything about it is Biden winking to China.
9 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/4/2023 9:07:30 AM (No. 1394521)
Biden you cheater, your surrender schtick is getting old. First the Afghanistan surrender, then the Ukraine proxy war, and now balloon-gate. Can't you do anything right?
18 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 2/4/2023 10:19:09 AM (No. 1394591)
I think it was a congressman from South Dakota that said if the balloon had come over his state, Kristy Noem would have shot it down.
12 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/4/2023 10:23:57 AM (No. 1394597)
No..poster #2...I is not over for America...WE have just begun to fight...all WE needed was a validation by Elon Musk from tweeter that what WE suspected was accurate...the Washington establishment has been cheating all along and WE can solve our problems that the democrats have brought to US...one step at a time...I'm old enough to remember when the Dems said after the Nixon mess...the republicans are finished....well that didn't happen...did it....
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 2/4/2023 10:26:01 AM (No. 1394598)
Treason yet?
9 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 2/4/2023 10:28:11 AM (No. 1394600)
Soooooo... what constitutes treason in the Republic of America... anyone?
8 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 2/4/2023 10:28:57 AM (No. 1394601)
Thank every demoncrap and rino you know. They own this.
12 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
spiderman 2/4/2023 10:58:30 AM (No. 1394639)
And this is what we have for leadership? And we have to put up with this until 2024 and beyond because if we think another Republican will ever sit in the White House think again. The Demorats have broken the code. And what is the code you might ask? MAIL IN BALLOTS. You can bet in 4 or 5 states as we speak they have thousands of minons filling out blank ballots ready to fill in the name of the 2024 nominee. And at the exact time they will dump them and bingo another Dem in the White House.
10 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 2/4/2023 11:06:30 AM (No. 1394646)
Could it be seeding the country with another deadly virus?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/4/2023 11:24:12 AM (No. 1394664)
Things are not as they seem. Sometimes, the most obvious answer is the correct one. We certainly have the capability to shoot this thing down. Why didn’t we? I guarantee you, it is not because of incompetence or safety issues.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Felixed 2/4/2023 11:43:58 AM (No. 1394678)
In real life, in the real world, "taking down" this particular size of balloon at its particular cruising altitude is no job for a deer rifle OR a Raptor jet fighter. Ordinary munitions have proven ineffective against similar balloons.
However... what about our decades-long defense research into directed-energy weapons, lasers, the like?
Either we haven't tried everything in our arsenal or our arsenal needs some addition. Perhaps we _have_ tried and failed - surely that isn't the case though, our government is soooooo interested in keeping us informed of everything we need to know. (sarc off)
3 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 2/4/2023 11:46:29 AM (No. 1394681)
So now we have justification to float balloons over China. I also want to see what Putin does when they make it to Russia.
5 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
broken01 2/4/2023 11:54:07 AM (No. 1394686)
My cousin who is a is a democrat joked that if the balloon had MAGA written on it Biden would’ve shot down that balloon with a quickness.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Luandir 2/4/2023 2:13:19 PM (No. 1394813)
Once again Zhou Bi Den humiliates the nation.
1 person likes this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
dman 2/4/2023 4:01:33 PM (No. 1394955)
Now that it's mission accomplished and it as been shot down:
The 'trial balloon' phase is complete. Now for the real thing.
0 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
rochow 2/4/2023 4:13:53 PM (No. 1394961)
The POS of the US is an embarrassment to the US and on the world stage!
0 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
danu 2/4/2023 8:04:30 PM (No. 1395140)
we live far away from montana. nevertheless, upon the rising of the moon,
we could see the giant cloud trail floating along side the full moon.
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