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MTG recounts tearing into Biden officials at Chinese spy balloon briefing: ‘Biggest bunch of bullsh*t!’

February 12, 2023 | | Print Article

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was not happy with the Biden administration’s handling of the Chinese spy balloon that floated for days over the United States before finally being shot down off the coast of South Carolina.

Speaking at a fundraising event in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, on Saturday, Greene described to potential donors her fury during a closed-door briefing on the balloon with Biden officials.

A video of the event was circulated on Twitter by influencer Ron Filipkowski.

“You sat by and allowed this Chinese spy balloon that could’ve contained a bioweapon like Covid,” Greene said she told the officials. “It could’ve contained a nuclear bomb. An EMP attack, or hypersonic missiles — like the Chinese government, the CCP, has shown their own people these weather balloons dropping these hypersonic missiles on video. They showed those on video. This is a common thing.

“I said, ‘You allowed this to go across the country, and then you want to stand up here and give us our excuses — your excuses — on why you didn’t shoot it down. Because you’re gathering intelligence, or you didn’t want to risk anyone’s lives?’” she told attendees. “I said, ‘That is the biggest bunch of bullsh*t!'”

The crowd erupted with applause and whistles.

“I had to wait in line the whole time,” Greene told The Hill of the Thursday classified briefing. “I was I think the second to last person, and I chewed them out just like the American people would’ve.”

“I tore ’em to pieces,” she stated.

But one anonymous lawmaker who attended the briefing described Greene as “irrational.”

“When she got to ask questions, she was yelling out saying ‘bullshit,’ and, you know, ‘I don’t believe you,'” the source said. “Just screaming and yelling, irrational in my estimation.”

Greene argued that, by waiting, Democrats made Biden look weak.

“I said the president may be a Democrat but he’s still the president of the United States and they made him look like a fool and made him look weak the week before the State of the Union — I’ve said that publicly, too — by not shooting it down,” she told The Hill. “And I said there was nothing I heard there today that gave me any confidence in what they did.”

When asked how others in the room reacted to her rant, Greene replied, “They tried to give me some more excuses and I said, ‘I don’t want to hear more of your excuses.'”

“He said, ‘well it’s a matter of opinion,'” she recalled. “I said, ‘no, you’re nothing but excuses and it’s wrong and I’m just telling you, this is how the American people see it and it’s a serious problem.'”

Following the takedown on Friday of another mysterious object over Alaska, MTG praised the military’s quick response, seeing it as proof that the “excuses” surrounding the balloon were “BS.”

“They just shot down an object over Alaskan frozen waters,” she tweeted. “Thank you for defending our country, but this proves all of their excuses about last week’s Chinese Spy Balloon was [sic] BS.

“Just like I told them in the briefing,” she stated. “Defend our Homeland at all cost.”

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