Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D., spoke publicly on Saturday about the U.S. military shooting down a Chinese spy balloon after it had traversed the United States from Alaska to South Carolina. Jill’s husband Joe let the balloon traverse the U.S. for a week, spying on American military installations from from Alaska to South Carolina before it was finally shot down off the coast Saturday afternoon.
Screen image via Emily Goodin/Twitter.
The Daily Mail’s Emily Goodin posted Biden’s remarks to Twitter, along with video, “FLOTUS talked about Chinese balloon: “I felt such a sense of pride about the effort and that our military, you know, shot down the balloon, how coordinated it was, how thoughtful it was, that it was decided to wait until it was over water so that civilians weren’t affected.”” (Jill went on to say that she and Joe pray for the military every day at dinner.)
Fuller quotes reported by KGTV-TV:
Dr. Jill is spending the weekend away from her husband, appearing in Oceanside, California for a military family clinic roundtable at the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic.
Biden visited San Diego on Friday.
Joe Biden is finishing the weekend at Camp David after having traveled to his Wilmington home on Friday before departing Saturday for a family funeral in Syracuse with son Hunter and then the trip to Camp David.