‘The View’ Co-Host Claims China Loves That Republicans ‘Turned’ Spy Balloon Into a ‘Big Drama’

There are some things in life you might expect would receive a fairly unified response from commentators and politicians, such as natural disasters, mass shootings, or terrorist attacks.

You might think there would be a unified response to the news a foreign power sent a massive spy balloon across the country. But some commentators appear to be trying to cast the outrage around a suspected spy balloon as the result of Republicans blowing it out of proportion.

And on Monday, co-host Ana Navarro suggested Chinese officials are relishing the Republicans’ response to the balloon.

Sunny Hostin asked if she believed one of China’s goals in sending the balloon was to “show Biden’s weakness.”

“They love this,” Navarro responded. “They love that Republicans turned this into this big drama.”

She went on:

“They wanted this thing to be spotted. If you’re going to spy, you’re not going to send a giant balloon all across the United States for a week, right? The Chinese know how to spy, you know, they can do it better. They wanted to create a crisis, a national crisis, an international crisis, they wanted it to be elevated, and be visible, and be talked about, and they got it.”

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Her comments come after the Pentagon revealed a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering above parts of the continental U.S.

Biden said he ordered the balloon to be shot down “as soon as possible” when he heard about it on Wednesday.

And on Saturday, it was shot down