Posted on 01/31/2025 4:28:33 AM PST by Morgana
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifery Homendy stunned reporters after being asked several ways if President Donald Trump jumped the gun by blaming the deadly D.C. crash on 'DEI' and previous administrations.
Homendy led a press conference on-site at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Thursday afternoon.
Several of the reporters in the crowd asked her about Trump's eyebrow-raising assertions that he made standing at the podium earlier Thursday in the White House briefing room.
'With all due respect, I think the press also likes to state what probable cause is before we get to the probable cause,' Homendy said. 'So what I'm going to say is you need to give us time.'
Just 10 days into his administration and Trump manned the podium Thursday morning to respond to the deadly crash between an American Airlines commuter jet and an Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night.
The crash killed 67 people - 60 passengers and four crew members on the AA flight that was coming in from Wichita, Kansas, and the three on board the military helicopter.
Trump's press briefing got off to a solemn start - with a moment of silence for the victims and other compassionate comments - but quickly turned into a blame game.
'I changed the Obama standards to very mediocre at best to extraordinary,' the president said. 'Only the highest aptitude have to be, the highest intellect and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. That was not so prior-to.'
And then when I left office, and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before,' Trump continued. 'I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first.'
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He seems to be right more often than twice a day though...🧐🤨
It’s high time he rips the mask off!
It figures
The media tried to push her into an answer supporting their view, she did the right thing, stayed neutral in her lane and told everyone to wait for the investigation to turn up facts.
BTTT
I see the Murdock slime show is still hard at work using their outlets to spread lies
1st they attack President Trump for “causing the crash” when he responses they drop the fact he is responding to their scumbag actions to pretend he “jumped the gun”
Just shameless lying
Why do folks jump to conclusions? Uhh:
1) almost all conspiracy theories of last ten years have been proven right — despite gov’mt denials
2) gov’mt always covers up the cause once it is realized that gov’mt was a contributor
Basically, WE DON’T TRUST YOU ANYMORE!! So, shut up and do your job and quit whining about the issue that YOU have contributed to.
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