President Trump blasted former President Obama and suggested that diversity hires could have led to the deadly mid-air collision Wednesday night at Reagan National Airport. At least 67 people were killed in the collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jetliner from Wichita.
“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. “This was in the Obama administration.”
Trump also blamed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for focusing on diversity instead of competency.
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“He’s a disaster now. He’s just got a good line of bullshit,” Trump said of Buttigieg. “Well he runs it, 45,000 people, and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the mid-air collision over Reagan National Airport was absolutely preventable.
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“What happened yesterday shouldn’t have happened. It should not have happened. And when Americans take off in airplanes, they should expect to land at their destination,” Duffy said. “We will not accept excuses. We will not accept passing the buck. We are gonna take responsibility at the Dept. of Transportation and the FAA to make sure that we have the reforms that have been dictated by President Trump in place to make sure that these mistakes do not happen again.”
Last year, more than 1,000 people filed a class action lawsuit against the FAA alleging they were denied jobs because they are white.
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt said his clients passed the test to become air traffic controllers. However, the Obama administration said the class was too white and tossed the test along with the applicants.
In 2012 the FAA stopped race-blind hiring rules and implemented a “biographical assessment to hire more minorities.”
The Daily Mail reported last year that the FAA launched a campaign to hire recruits with “severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and physical issues.”
Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
Elon Musk tweeted at the time that it would take an airplane crashing and killing people for the FAA to change its crazy DEI policies. Right now, the death count stands at 67.
Fox News also reported that the FAA was intentionally seeking staffers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
Someone from the FAA needs to explain this — asap.
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