Tom Cotton Says Leak About Pelosi's Taiwan Trip Came 'Straight From the White House'
We reported how China had threatened the U.S. and Taiwan on the phone call that Chinese President Xi Jinping had with Joe Biden, saying the U.S. was “playing with fire” and would get “burnt” if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went to Taiwan. Biden’s response? A milquetoast reply that didn’t blast them for the threat.
So after showing that weakness, then a CCP media propagandist threatened that China would blow Pelosi’s plane out of the sky if she went with a military escort. The response of the White House? White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she refused to comment, saying whether or not Pelosi was going was “a hypothetical.” It was a pathetic response, not blasting the Chinese for threatening the Speaker of the House.
Pelosi hasn’t revealed her formal plans yet for her Asia trip; although she was supposed to go to Taiwan in June, but came down with COVID.
But Sen.Tom Cotton (R-AR) revealed something that is just despicable, if true, particularly in light of the threats from China — he said that his understanding was the White House leaked Pelosi’s plans to visit Taiwan.
“Well the word I’ve heard in Congress is that the leak of Nancy Pelosi’s trip came straight from the White House, the pressure came from Joe Biden who doesn’t want her to take this trip because he’s once again kowtowing to Beijing,” Cotton explained to Laura Ingraham on Fox News Channel. “But Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden shouldn’t be worried about China’s aggressiveness, they should be making China worry about our aggressiveness,” he noted. “For decades, American lawmakers have been traveling to Taiwan — of both parties — and that should continue now, especially after it became public,” Cotton urged.
Cotton added that he saw Speaker Pelosi earlier in the week and “told her it was absolutely essential that she go forward with this trip, no matter what Joe Biden says.”
Cotton said that they could not allow China to threaten us over a member of Congress visiting Taiwan.
“We cannot back down in the face of these Chinese threats,” Cotton reiterated, saying if Biden “prevents Nancy Pelosi or any other member of Congress from traveling to Taiwan, it will create a major foreign policy crisis — imagine what it will signal to the Chinese Communists if they think they can threaten us into merely not traveling to Taiwan,” Cotton warned. “It might in fact incite them and tempt them to go for the jugular in Taiwan.”
Add that to the White House’s pathetic response to the threats, particularly the one against Pelosi, and one has to ask if Biden is compromised. If Biden is leaking to prevent her from going, so as not to anger China, he is compromised and we are in deep trouble. This is why the investigation into Hunter’s foreign connections is so important. If China can threaten the Speaker of the House and prevent her from going, they will think they can walk all over us and invade Taiwan. That’s where Biden is leading us–just like his weakness may have made Russia believe they could invade Ukraine.
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