Morning Joe analyst and BBC journalist Katty Kay slammed “tied up Democrats” for failing to deliver strong “pushback” against President Donald Trump’s claims that DEI policies at the FAA “could have” caused the tragic aircraft collision in Washington DC on Wednesday.
During a press briefing on Thursday, Trump claimed former President Joe Biden had ended “very powerful tests” for air traffic controllers and that standards were higher under his presidency, linking diversity initiatives in hiring to the crash between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter.
When pressed on linking DEI to the crash, he simply said, “It just could have been.”
After Morning Joe host Jonathan Lemire accused the president of using the “national tragedy” to “score political points and attack his foes”, Kay weighed in to take a shot at Democrats – who she perceived as having missed an opportunity to shut down Trump’s claims.
But it looks like Donald Trump is feeling extremely powerful and realizing that even if he says something or goes too far, then he’s not going to get much pushback, right?
I mean, yes, Pete Buttigieg came out with a tweet saying that this was despicable, but you have not had a complete outcry, uniform, from members of the Democratic Party responding to what President Trump did, effectively blaming black, brown people, women, people with disabilities for that air crash. I mean, let’s be honest, you know, that’s what diversity is, and that is what the president said, that black, brown people, women and people with disabilities caused this crash.
I mean, where is the outcry from — a coordinated outcry from Democrats now? They’ve been tied up. They’ve been tied up in the hearings on Capitol Hill. It’s just this — this sense that Donald Trump wants to have a fight. The fact that he signed a memorandum even after that press conference doesn’t suggest at all that he thinks he went too far in that press conference, quite the contrary. He wants to push it even further. And he thinks that there’ll be, even if nothing happens that’s positive, there will be very little pushback from a Congress that seems to be either cowed on the Democratic side or compliant on the Republican side.
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