Without evidence, Trump casts blame for crash on DEI policies
Speaking to reporters in the White House Briefing Room, President Donald Trump today mplied that diversity, equity and inclusion policies within the Federal Aviation Administration — which he to last week — contributed to the deadly plane collision.
“A group within the FAA determined that the workforce was too white, then they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately,” Trump said.
When reporters asked how he could determine that diversity had something to do with the crash, while the investigation is in the early stages, Trump , “Because I have common sense.”
Trump’s comments condemnation from the NAACP, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and for the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
National Transportation Safety Board leaders will take a “careful approach” in their investigation and “look at all the humans that were involved in this accident.”
Meanwhile, some Democrats in Congress said the crash that the air traffic in Washington, D.C.’s sky is too congested, and Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican from Kansas, said, “clearly, this was a confluence of errors.”
