Trump baselessly blames DEI and Democrats for Washington DC plane crash | Washington DC plane crash

Donald Trump use The plane crashed in Washington, DC To attack his political enemies, he claims that Democrats were responsible for decreased standards in air traffic control and that the disaster can be “due to diversity, fairness and integration policies (Dei) in the Federal Aviation Administration.

During a press conference on Thursday about the accident, about Trump, what might be a bleak directive in an unfounded screaming from Dei, although there is no evidence of a link with the crash.

The president was supported by the Minister of Transport, Sean DuffyWho said, “We can only accept the best and brightest” in situations that affect the safety of passengers and defense secretaries, Higseth HouseWhich echoed: “The era of Dei has gone in the Ministry of Defense and we need the best and brightest.”

Then the vice president came, JD VanceAnd who claimed, “we want to employ the best of people” who “already qualified enough to do this task.” He said that without evidence that hundreds of people filed a lawsuit against the United States government because they “want to be monitors from air traffic, but they were removed because of their skin color.”

Trump has returned to the lecture to claim that “very strong tests” for efficiency in air traffic control “ended” by Joe Biden.

When he pressed his martyr DEI as a cause of the accident by correspondents after his speech, Trump said: “It could have been.”

He also claimed that when he was president between 2017 and 2021, the United States had a much higher level [in air traffic control] More than anyone else, “then accused the Biden administration of leaving the standards sliding.

In response to a question about how he could decide to decide the diversity quickly is to blame the accident near the National Reagan Airport, Trump said: “Because I have a healthy sense, agree, and unfortunately, many people do not do.”

The officials said 67 people died In the accident on Wednesday night, when a Black Hawk military helicopter collided with an American flight plane. By late Thursday morning, 28 bodies were recovered from the Botomac River. the Victims identities They started reporting.

Trump also thought about the helicopter’s pilot errors.

Since his return to the White House earlier this month, Trump has attacked Dei Policies In the federal government, a central part and a very performance of its impulsion from strict executive orders.

He spoke to journalists at the White House, and was quoted in a familiar style of the excursions, which he said was “different articles [that] He appeared before my entry office. “

“Here is one,” Trump said. “The FAA diversity boost includes focusing on employing people with severe mental and psychological disabilities.” This is amazing. Then FAA says … Those with severe disabilities are more imperfect than the workforce, [they] They said, “They want them and want them, they can be monitors from air traffic.” i don’t think so. This was on January 14, and that was a week before I entered my position. They put a big boost to put diversity in the FAA program. “

He seemed to read from a a report Posted by Fox News.

Trump continued: “The wonderful people should be in these situations, their lives are already shortened, and they are greatly shortened due to stress that you have a lot of aircraft in one goal, and you need a very special and very special talent to be able to do so.”

When asked if he “will release some of the diversity in the federal government,” Trump said: “I would like to say yes. If we find that people are not mentally specialized … these are not people who must do these specific jobs.”

More traditional, Trump opened a moment of silence, and then expressed his regret “a dark and refrigerated night in the capital of our nation and in the history of our nation, and a tragedy with terrible dimensions.”

He also said that he could only “start imagining the torment that [victims families were] Feeling, nothing worse, “adding:” On behalf of the first lady, I and 340 million Americans, our hearts have shattered with your side, and our prayers are with you now and in the coming days. “

“We did not know what led to this incident, but we have some very strong opinions and ideas,” Trump continued. “We have some good ideas … We will discover how this catastrophe happened and we will ensure that there is no such thing again. FAA and NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] The US military will conduct a systematic and comprehensive investigation. “

But Trump was excited to turn the blame. The promise to “restore faith in American air travel”, sought without evidence to blame the previous democratic departments in the crash of Reagan Airport.

“We must only have the highest standards for those working in our aviation system,” Trump said. “Obama’s standards have changed very average at best to unusual.

“Remember it. Only the highest efficiency. They should be the highest knot, and psychologically outstanding people have allowed qualification to air traffic monitors. It was not before that [me] Access there.

“When I arrived in 2016, I made this change very early, because I always felt that this was a job, and other jobs as well, but this was a job that should be super intelligence, and we didn’t really have it. We had. Then when I left the office Biden took over to others ever. Their policy was terrible and their policy was worse.

Trump also assumed the goal of Beit Boujejj, the former Democratic Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was the Minister of Transport under Biden.

“It was a disaster,” Trump said. “He was a disaster as a mayor, and his city ran on the ground, and he is now a catastrophe. He has just got a good line of nonsense.”

Trump also said Buttigieg, a gay, turned the transport department to the ground “with a” diversity. “

Elsewhere, Chuck Shomer From New York, the leader of the minority in the Democratic Senate told reporters Trump’s statements “Transform your stomach.”

“It is something for Internet experts to start conspiracy theories, it is another thing for the President of the United States,” Schumer said.