Ted Cruz explains the ‘bad message’ Biden conveyed to communist China over spy balloon

DAILY WIRE

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden after the president allowed a Chinese spy balloon to fly over the U.S. for several days before shooting it down over the Atlantic Ocean.

Cruz made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face The Nation,” where he gave Biden credit for eventually downing the balloon.

“Unfortunately, he didn’t do that until a week after it entered U.S. airspace,” Cruz said. “He allowed a full week for the Chinese to conduct spying operations over the United States, over sensitive military installations, exposing not just photographs but the potential of intercepted communications.”

“And more broadly, I think this entire episode, telegraphed weakness to Xi and the Chinese government,” he continued. “And to illustrate why I would just ask one- one hypothetical question: imagine how this would have played out if nobody had taken any pictures of the balloon, if nobody in Montana had looked up and noticed this giant balloon,…