President-elect Trump on Monday stated the Biden administration is aware of what is occurring with the flurry of drone sightings within the Northeast, suggesting it was not a hostile adversary and questioning why officers weren’t extra forthcoming.
“The government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they took off from, if it’s a garage they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went,” Trump instructed reporters at Mar-a-Lago.
“And for some reason, they don’t want to comment. I think they’d be better off saying what it is,” he continued. “Our military knows, and our president knows, and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense.”
Trump declined to say whether or not he’d obtained an intelligence briefing on the drone sightings. However he downplayed the prospect it was a international adversary based mostly on the U.S. response.
“If it was the enemy they’d blast it out. Even if they were late, they’d blast it. Something strange is going on. For some reason they don’t want to tell the people,” he stated.
Biden administration officers have stated there isn’t any proof of international involvement with the drones that civilians and lawmakers have reported seeing in elements of the Northeast in latest days.
“There’s no question that people are seeing drones. And I want to assure the American public that we, in the federal government, have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology, to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings,” Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
