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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Angry Trump Snaps at Journos who Harshly Expose his Plane Crash Drivel

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

After a passenger jet collided with a military helicopter over Washington DC, leaving no survivors, President Donald Trump went before the cameras and blamed Democrats and DEI for the disaster. He then seethed at reporters who dared to ask tough questions about his claims. This is an early indication that he will fall back on far right obsessions at the most sensitive moments. We talked to Juliette Kayyem, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official who has a new piece for The Atlantic about what might have led to the crash. She explains what Trump got wrong—and why his anger at facing basic scrutiny is exactly what we don’t want in a president in situations like these. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

0:47.8

On Wednesday night, a passenger jet collided with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C., leaving no survivors.

0:55.5

On Thursday, President Donald Trump went before the cameras and blamed Democrats, diversity, equity, and inclusion training,

1:01.3

and many other things for the disaster, and seethed with anger at reporters who dared to ask tough questions about his claims. We don't yet know what caused this crash, but Trump's

1:07.2

rush to judgment is already demonstrating how he will conduct this presidency.

1:11.6

He's going to lead with far-right obsessions and tropes at some of the most critical and sensitive

1:16.4

moments. Trump's anger here was telling. It visibly infuriated him when his efforts to push those

1:23.2

obsessions and tropes were subjected to even minimal questioning.

1:32.1

Today we're talking about all this with Juliet Kayam, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official during the Obama administration, who has a new piece for the Atlantic

1:36.4

looking at conditions that might have led to the crash.

1:39.3

Juliet, thanks for coming on.

1:40.7

Thanks for having me on.

1:42.8

So this jet had 64 people on board and crashed into the Potomac

1:48.0

River after colliding with a military helicopter at around 9 p.m. on Wednesday night. The helicopter

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