Trump Blames Fatal Potomac Crash On Dems, DEI feat. Rep. Jamie Raskin
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
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Summary
An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army helicopter on a routine training flight collided over the Potomac River late Wednesday night. While investigators spent Thursday trying to piece together what happened, President Donald Trump took the opportunity to blame the tragedy on... Democrats and D.E.I. It was the latest outrage in too many to count since Trump took office not even two weeks ago. Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin joins us to talk about what Democrats can do to counter Trump’s onslaught of horrifying nonsense.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, January 31st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show asking God, |
| 0:07.8 | the universe, Beyonce, whatever it might be out there to deliver us from these Trump administration confirmation hearings. |
| 0:20.5 | On today's show, Tulsi Gabbard and Cash Patel get their chance to flail in front of senators during their respective confirmation hearings, and Secretary of State Little Marco says he's headed to Panama. |
| 0:31.5 | But let's start with the deadly plane collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, late |
| 0:37.9 | Wednesday night. The passenger plan was descending into Reagan International Airport outside |
| 0:42.3 | Washington, D.C., when it collided with a helicopter on a routine training flight over the Potomac |
| 0:46.8 | River. At the time of our recording Thursday night, all 67 people on the two aircraft are reportedly |
| 0:52.6 | dead. The recovery mission in the I.C. Potomac is |
| 0:55.3 | ongoing. President Donald Trump held a press conference Thursday morning to offer the obligatory |
| 1:00.1 | thoughts and prayer speech. But then he immediately pivoted to blame the tragedy on Democrats |
| 1:05.1 | and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. He doubled down when reporters pressed him on his |
| 1:10.1 | claims. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash. Because I have common sense, okay, and unfortunately a lot of people |
| 1:22.0 | don't. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level. |
| 1:28.8 | It's not common sense. He has a hammer and saw a nail. To be clear, there is not a shred of evidence that DEI had anything to do with this. |
| 1:36.8 | Investigators do not yet know what happened. But never wanted to let available facts get in the way of a racist tantrum. |
| 1:43.9 | Trump signed an executive order later in the day, |
| 1:46.3 | demanding a review of all hiring decisions and safety protocol changes under President Biden. |
| 1:51.1 | He was also sure to cite, quote, |
| 1:53.2 | likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden administrations |
| 1:56.6 | that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration. |
| 2:00.7 | The subtext, of course, being that if anyone other than a white, straight, able-bodied man |
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