Montana governor rips Biden's Chinese balloon inaction: 'Americans are endangered'
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From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM
Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte told Fox News on Friday that he was not briefed on the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon's incursion into Big Sky Country airspace until it was many miles into the state.
Gianforte told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" he was not told of situation until the balloon had reached the state's largest city, Billings – hundreds of miles from the western border at Idaho.
"It had already flown near [Malmstrom] Air Force Base and the ICBM silos. When I finally got informed, it was over our most populous city. It got spotted by a photographer at the airport," he said.
The dirigible flew very close to Malmstrom – outside Great Falls – which Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Fox News houses some of the most powerful "weapons of mass destruction" in the world.
"If it was up to Montanans, this thing would have been taken out of the sky the moment it entered our sovereign airspace," Gianforte said.
"And it's clearly been there for a while. It's not moving that fast."
By later Friday evening, host Tucker Carlson reported the balloon had made it all the way to Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Gianforte told Carlson the federal government had initially contemplated "taking [the balloon] out of the sky" but decided not to.... (Read more)
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