After Donald Trump tried guilty Pete Buttigieg for the lethal aircraft crash in Washington, D.C., the previous transportation secretary fired again, defending his service and telling Trump to be an grownup and present management moderately than discover a scapegoat in the course of a horrific tragedy.
“Despicable,” Buttigieg wrote in a publish on X, referring to Trump’s batshit loopy information convention by which he blamed everybody from Buttigieg to former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, to folks with dwarfism for the crash that killed 64 civilians and three members of the navy. “As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.”
Buttigieg then mentioned Trump bears among the blame for the crash, as he’s in cost and has already taken actions to make the skies much less secure.
“President Trump now oversees the military and the [Federal Aviation Administration],” Buttigieg continued. “One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.”
On the time of the crash, there was no head of the FAA, as Trump’s co-President Elon Musk had pressured out the earlier administrator as a result of the FAA fined Musk’s firm SpaceX.
Trump additionally gutted an aviation security committee days earlier than the crash, eliminating a three-decade-old security committee that was created by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. As a result of the committee was created by an act of Congress, Trump couldn’t eliminate it, however he did hearth all of its members, which can make the committee unable to do the work of trying into airline issues of safety, the Related Press reported.
Kara Weipz, the president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, mentioned a press release that Trump’s gutting of the protection fee, “will undermine aviation security in the United States and across the globe.”
Other than wrongly blaming Buttigieg, Trump additionally blamed variety, fairness, and inclusion efforts for the crash—though he has no proof {that a} DEI rent brought on the tragic accident.
When requested by a reporter how he is aware of that DEI is guilty, Trump replied, “Because I have common sense.”
Finally, the investigation into what led to Wednesday evening’s tragedy is simply starting.
However except for having an fool within the White Home, the 2 males who helm the businesses tasked with attending to the underside of what occurred—Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth—are additionally not the brightest instruments within the shed.
Duffy is a former actuality TV contestant turned GOP congressman with no transportation expertise. And Hegseth is a veteran turned Fox Information host with no expertise main a serious group.
