'China had too much respect for 'TRUMP' for this to have happened, and it NEVER did,' Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"That has never happened before, that is unprecedented. That it flew briefly over some part of the continental U.S., that's one thing, but what we saw this week, it's unprecedented and that's why everyone's reacting the way they're reacting. We've never seen this. So this is no comparison to anything that may have happened up to this point."
Rubio also questioned why the balloon was not shot down earlier, suggesting it may have been because the Biden administration did not want to cancel Secretary of State"Why didn't the president go on television?" Rubio said."He has the ability to convene the country and cameras and basically explain what we're dealing with here and why he's made the decisions he's making and what they intend to do."Sen.
He went on to suggest that could be because"maybe that had happened first during the Obama administration and the military was told at the time that this is no big deal and they shouldn't raise the alarm bells on it." He added:"Maybe what's even more worrisome is…that our senior military knew about these balloons in the past and [had] not informed their civilian superiors during the Trump administration.
"Or maybe worst of all, did we not know about these balloons in the past and we only learned about them in retrospect by studying historical data? Again, these are all open questions for which the American people deserve answers and we in
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