It took minutes for the Trump Administration to clear up any lingering confusion about the New Jersey drones responsible for public panic and foreign interference conspiracy theories during the dying days of the Biden regime.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the unidentified drones were ‘not the enemy’ – something the Biden government knew the whole time and chose not to reveal.
‘After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorised to be flown by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational, and private individuals that enjoy flying drones. In time, it got worse due to curiosity. It was not the enemy.’
The American public need to start asking some very serious questions about why the conversation was allowed to get so far down the rabbit hole that government officials were floating claims that these might be spy drones launched by Iran or China.
And who can blame the public for worrying after Biden watched Chinese spy balloons float around in their airspace for weeks, turning America into an international security laughing stock?
At the height of the drone saga, there were articles in mainstream publications dedicated to theories that military vessels from Iran were loitering off the coast, launching enemy drones. A serious escalation in international tensions, if true.
This sort of speculation would never have been offered for print if Biden had simply issued a statement of fact, as Trump has done.
The public did not need to know exactly what the drones were up to, just that they were American.
‘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. And for some reason, they don’t want to comment. And I think they’d be better off saying what it is,’ said Donald Trump, in late December. ‘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 people. And they should.’
Saying that the drones ‘do not pose a national security threat’ or putting out public requests for ‘tips’ only fuelled mistrust at the time.
During the middle of the hysteria, then-White House spokesperson, John Kirby, said: ‘[Federal officials] have not been able to, and neither have state and local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings.’
That came as a surprise to people scrolling through video footage of the drones on TikTok.
Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer was stirring public panic with his demands for transparency and investigations to ensure the safety of New York citizens.
Was all this unnecessary secrecy designed to leave Americans feeling as though they were being spied on by the enemy? As if the presidential election was being conducted on the edges of war? Were people meant to fear the technological age and err toward the Democrats and their Silicon Valley friends?
It is very difficult to write-off the behaviour of the Biden Administration and its conspiracy of silence when it seems officials were happy to cultivate an environment of fear and suspicion.
The drones that started the social media panic were known to the FAA from the start and used in unspecified research, so why did they remain silent?
In December, the FAA initiated a temporary ban on drones over some sites in response to the complaints, but never put their hand up and said, ‘Chill out! That was us.’
Instead, the FAA left an exemption on their public drone ban for those flown by the government for ‘special security reasons’…
And what about the FBI? Either they are uniquely hopeless at their jobs, or they knew the FAA was responsible the whole time and chose to engage in busywork by investigating hundreds of public tips instead of making an announcement.
Yes, the drone saga was a storm in a teacup, but who boiled the water and who brewed the tea?
