Most of the bodies of the 67 killed in the plane crash in Washington are still under the icy waters of the Potomac River. The causes of the collision between an American Airlines plane and a Black Hawk military helicopter have not yet clarified. However, Donald Trump already has who to point out. Without any shameless and without evidence that they support their statements, after pointing out that such an accident unites the entire country in pain, the president of the United States has blamed their democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Joe Biden for lowering the quality standards of the quality of the quality of the quality of the Air control when applying diversity, equality and inclusion policies in the public sector.
Trump asked for a minute of silence before starting his speech, which began with a presidential tone. “Unfortunately, there are no survivors. This was a dark and unbearable night in the capital of our nation and in the history of our nation, and a tragedy of terrible proportions. As a nation, we cry for each precious soul that has been taken away so suddenly. And we are a country that is really mourning, ”he said.
He continued on that path: “At times like this, the differences between Americans vanish nothing, compared to the ties of affection and loyalty that unite us all, as Americans and even as nations. We are a family, and today we all have a broken heart. ”
Trump’s nature, however, is not that of a unifier, but the most polarizing in the recent history of the United States. And that nature also imposed itself at that time of alleged mourning and unity. “We don’t know what led to this accident, but we have some very firm opinions and ideas,” Trump said.
Democratic policies
Without evidence that supports that none of that has to do with the reasons of the accident, Trump lashed out at the Democrats and the diversity and inclusion policies that he has demonized as part of the cultural war of conservatives. And pointed out those policies as the cause of the accident. He also criticized the previous Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg.
“We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system. I changed Obama’s standards, very mediocre at best, to extraordinary, ”he said. “Only people with the highest aptitude, who have the highest and most psychologically higher intellect, were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. That was not like that before getting there. When I arrived in 2016 I made that change very soon, because I always felt that this was a job that had to be superior intelligence, and we really didn’t have that. And then, when I left the position and Biden assumed it, he changed them again to lower than ever. I put the security first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put the policy first and put politics at a level that no one has ever seen, because this was the lowest level, ”Trump said.
The president said he signed an order on his first day to restore more demanding requirements for air control. He pointed out that the Democrats reduced quality with their diversity and inclusion programs and cited articles without mentioning their origin as proof: “Here is one, the impulse to the diversity of the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] It includes focusing on people with serious intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. It is amazing. And then he says that FAA says that people with severe disabilities are the most underrepresented segment of labor, and that they want them to enter and can be aerial controllers. I don’t believe it, ”said Trump.
“Then another article,” he continued without citing his origin. “FAA is actively hiring workers who suffer serious intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions within the framework of a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative exposed on the agency’s website,” he said.
“The initiative is part of the hiring plan for the diversity and inclusion of FAA, which states that diversity is essential to meet the mission of guaranteeing safe and efficient trips. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it. I think it’s just the opposite, ”Trump continued.
At no time, Trump provided any evidence that there is any air controller with serious intellectual disabilities or that people who handled aerial control during the accident were there as a result of the application of diversity, equality and inclusion policies.
In fact, in a press conference held this Monday, the newly confirmed as the new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who was a television presenter, said the directions of the devices were normal before the accident: “This was not unusual. Everything was normal in the period prior to the accident. ” According to Duffy, there was no interruption in communication between the army helicopter, the plane or the control tower of the Ronald Reagan National Airport.
In the recordings the air controller is heard warning the helicopter pilot of the presence of the aircraft and asking him to pass from behind.
Even Trump himself, despite blaming the diversity policies of air control, in fact discharging responsibility in the helicopter pilot, again without waiting for the results of the investigation. “We had a situation in which we had a helicopter that had the capacity to stop. He could have stopped the helicopter, he could have stopped the helicopter, ”or go up or down, he said. “For some reason, he went ahead.”