Donald Trump stood on Thursday in front of the White House Cameras to perform the traditional presidential duty-music consolation during the tragedy time.
He said that the country was in mourning, shared condolences during the “hour of anxiety” and paid tribute to the first answers and victims.
Then he turned sharply – providing another reminder that his new presidency would be very different.
It will be combat. It will be unwritten. And it will quickly direct the finger of the fault.
“We don’t know what led to this fall, but we have very strong opinions and ideas,” he said.
He then speculated that the standards of employment for air traffic controllers at the Federal Air Force Directorate during the Presidency Joe Biden and Barack Obama may have been a factor in disaster.
Trump and his colleagues Republicans regularly attacked “diversity, equality and involvement programs in the Federal Government.
His team canceled such programs with the basic part of his first days in power, saying that they had divided Americans and weakened the land.
And less than 24 hours after the first major air disaster in the United States in more than a decade, Trump is with his secretaries for transportation and defense, and his Vice-President-Emilibly knocked their position, even until they provide evidence that federal employment does not They employ the Practice Alliance had any connection with this specific fall.
He asked the journalist that he could blame the diversity programs for the collision when the investigation had just begun, the president replied: “Since I have common sense.”
In other moments, he admitted that there was no confirmed cause, saying “it’s all under investigation.”
Trump said that employment guidelines for the Diversity and FAA Program included the advantage of those with disabilities that include “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarf”.
The archived version of the website for the employment program for the diversity and including FAA, which it seems, demolished in December, included a similar list. The agency sought persons with “targeted disability” that the Federal Government at the time to employment at the time.
But it is not clear how this urge is to employ a variety, perhaps influenced the ranks of air traffic controllers, for which President Trump said they needed to be “naturally talented geniuses”. FAA has more than 35,000 employees, only a fraction of which perform this role.
In response to criticism over the practice of employment of diversity last year, the Agency announced a statement arguing that all new employees must fill in “rigorous qualifications” that “differs depending on the position”.
The agency faced criticism over the long-term lack of air traffic controllers, especially after the Coid-19 pandemic caused huge disorders in commercial air travel.
Reports suggest that the level of staff at Reagan Airport on Wednesday night may have been threatened.
In his remark, Trump has particularly blamed the Minister for the transportation of Biden Administration, Peteo Buttigieg, whom he described with obsceneness and said that the department had launched “into the ground”.
Buttigieg defended his record on social media, calling Trump’s comments “despised”. “While the families are mourning, Trump should lead, not lie,” he said.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer also criticized Trump’s comments.
“One thing is that internet experts throw out conspiracies.
Once he stepped down from his prepared remarks, the speculation was what President Trump did the most interested in the offer.
In addition to his condemnation, Dei policy, he offered an extended debate on angles and altitude at which two aircraft were flying, weather conditions on Wednesday night, descendants and behavior of a military helicopter.
“We had a situation where we had a helicopter that had the ability to stop,” he said. “For some reason, that just continued.”
Two things were very clear from Trump’s remarks on Thursday.
The first is that his desire to inject himself in the main news in his new mandate. And the second is that in his opinion it is never too early to inject politics into the national tragedy – and use it to attack opponents and improve its agenda.
