Senator Kelly's Commie Balloons

Bowne Report: Dec 1, 2025

U.S. Senator Mark Kelly just keeps stepping in it. The Pentagon confirmed to multiple outlets that the video is under review by the Office of the General Counsel to determine whether it constitutes improper interference with military discipline. Regardless Kelly keeps sticking his foot in his mouth.

Kelly’s pre Senate business history has resurfaced amid heightened scrutiny of Chinese influence in U.S. technology. From 2013 to 2020, Kelly co-founded and served as a board member of World View Enterprises, a Tucson based company that develops high altitude stratospheric balloons originally marketed for commercial and research purposes. In 2013 and again in 2016, World View accepted investments from Tencent Holdings, the Chinese tech giant closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party and subject to national security laws requiring data cooperation with Beijing. Tencent’s WeChat platform has been cited by U.S. officials as a tool for censorship and surveillance.

World View has since pivoted toward Department of Defense contracts, providing long duration balloon platforms for ISR missions. Kelly divested his ownership stake and resigned from the board in early 2020 upon entering the Senate race, placing his holdings in a blind trust. Are we blindly trusting CCP sedition blowhard Senator Kelly?