Former Pentagon staffer Kash Patel targeted the Biden administration on Sunday over recent reports that the White House shared intelligence about the movement of Russian troops near Ukraine with China.
President Joe BidenRussia’s top officials hold six meetings over three months with colleagues in Beijing as Russian president Vladimir Putin aggressively accumulated troops on Ukraine’s borders, New York Times announced on Friday.
The United States reportedly hoped for a Chinese president Xi Jinping will dissuade Putin from attacking his neighbor. Western requests for help were rejected each time, with China saying the invasion was unlikely.
Meanwhile, Beijing shared sensitive information with Moscow.
China’s message to the Kremlin, along with US intelligence reports, was that the Americans only wanted to sow discord and signaled that China would not stand in the way of any of Russia’s plans, officials told the Times.
“This is a colossal failure of leadership and shows another difference between the Biden administration and the Trump administration,” Patel told Fox Sunday Morning Futures.
Fighters of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense test the automatic grenade launcher taken from the destroyed Russian infantry mobile machine GAZ Tiger after the battle in Kharkov on February 27
A fighter from the Ukrainian Territorial Defense examines a destroyed Russian infantry mobile machine in Kharkiv. Ukrainian forces have taken a historic stand against Moscow’s invasion
Putin personally ordered a “military operation” against Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday morning. Within minutes, explosions shook areas around the country’s cities. Since then, the Kiev military has repulsed an unprovoked attack from Moscow, which includes air, land and sea offensives.
Biden gave a press conference on the crisis last week, asking if he would call on China to “help isolate Russia.”
The president said he was “not ready to comment on this at the moment”.
“The fact that the commander-in-chief would not answer this question, which is not covered by anyone, leads me to believe that he took secret intelligence – and the reports are now accurate from many sources – and passed it on to our worst enemy. the world, the biggest enemy of the United States, its biggest enemy, China, “Patel said Sunday.
Patel was chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller after serving on Trump’s National Security Council. He was also among the first members of Trump’s orbit to be summoned by the House of Representatives election commission investigating the Capitol attack.
On Sunday, he said Biden should have foreseen that China and Russia were likely to share information provided by the United States.
Patel, who briefly served as Pentagon chief of staff under the Trump administration, has called for an investigation into Biden over reports his officials have shared with Beijing about intelligence reports on the movement of Russian troops.
“Of course, China would turn and give it to Russia, because Xi Jinping and Putin have united and united against the United States,” Patel said.
“The fact that this commander-in-chief did not know this was going to be outrageous.”
He took the accusations another step, daring to say that providing China’s intelligence reports was actively harming Ukraine and Europe’s efforts to prevent the first shooting war on the continent in the 21st century.
“But what is tantamount to violating American national security is that we are actually doing it. We, like the United States, are in fact sharing classified information that threatens Ukraine’s national security interests, European national security interests and American lives, “Patel said, although no US troops have been sent to face Russia directly in Ukraine. .
“This is shared with our enemy, who shares it with America’s next biggest enemy. It’s just something that never happened to Trump, and the fact that it’s happening to Biden needs to be fully investigated.
The United States has reportedly shared information about the movement of Russian troops with Beijing in an attempt to get Xi Jinping (left) to dissuade Vladimir Putin (right) from attacking Ukraine.
Shortly before Trump’s first impeachment – which focused on a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, during which the US president used security aid in exchange for an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter – Patel was accused of communicating with Trump on Kiev issues through the wrong back channel.
Fiona Hill, Trump’s chief adviser on Russia at the time, told impeachment investigators in the House of Representatives that Trump believed Patel was its director in Ukraine and that they were reporting issues to the Eastern European nation outside the National Security Adviser’s normal channels.
This alarmed national security and foreign policy officials at the time, who worried that US relations with Kiev had been influenced by Trump loyalists.
Patel denied the allegations in a statement to Axios.
“Any report to the contrary and any testimony given to Congress is simply false, and any current or former staff who suggest that I have raised or discussed Ukraine issues with President Trump are similarly misinformed or spread outright lies,” he said. he on time.