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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Trump Blames DEI for Potomac River Plane Crash

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Government, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

After yesterday's tragic plane crash over the Potomac River, Donald Trump was quick to place the blame on DEI hires in the government. Steve Schmidt looks at Trump's statements about the crash and explains why none of it is based in reality. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

This is the warning.

0:02.0

The Secretary of Transportation is a real-world cast member.

0:07.0

And you certainly wouldn't have been able to tell from Reagan National Airport.

0:13.0

Obviously, it is not standard to have aircraft collide.

0:17.0

I want to be clear on that.

0:19.0

Now, over at the White House, let's listen to a

0:23.0

question. And then I want to do an exercise. But first, the question. On DEI in the claims

0:29.8

that you've made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring?

0:36.1

Yes, that's what he's saying.

0:39.3

A plane crashed in the Potomac River, coming in for a landing,

0:44.3

an army helicopter, a Black Hawk, flew into it.

0:49.3

You can see the explosion.

0:51.6

62 people died.

0:53.6

And Donald Trump said they were killed by DEI.

0:57.6

He didn't know anything when he said it about any facts except for that there was a tragedy,

1:05.9

the first one involving an airplane going down in the United States of America since 2009 in Buffalo.

1:14.8

Now, why is it that the national media, the White House press court, cannot comprehend English words put together into sentences?

1:35.6

Here's what I mean. Cat, yarn, couch. The cat plays with yarn on the couch.

1:46.7

Dog, man, ball. Man throws the ball for the dog. You get what I'm trying to tell you. There's a cat playing with yarn on a couch, and there's a man throwing a ball for a dog. Do you need any more information

1:54.3

to comprehend what it is you're seeing? Like the unseen White House reporter, let's play it again.

2:01.4

On DEI and the claims that you've made,

2:03.2

are you saying this crash was somehow caused

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