Trump Suggests DEI Played a Role in Tragic D.C. Airport Crash

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Wednesday night, an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C. The collision caused both aircrafts to fall into the Potomac River. 3:15pm- In a press conference to address the deadly collision at Reagan National Airport, President Donald Trump suggested diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and hiring practices may have played a role in the disaster. When asked by reporters why he believed DEI may have had an impact, Trump responded: “because I have common sense.” 3:20pm- On Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, testified before the Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. During one exchange, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed that America’s healthcare system is broken—Kennedy adroitly noted that members of Congress, including Sanders, have accepted “millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.” 3:40pm- On Thursday, Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as FBI Director, Kash Patel, participated in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:15.9	All right, it's an incredibly busy afternoon.
0:18.3	Such a tragedy in D.C.c with the crash and we have confirmation hearings
0:24.1	today for telson gabbert and cash patel and bobby kennedy we'll get into all that with you welcome to the show
0:28.7	glad you're here 855 839 1210 on x at rich zioli uh we heard from the president today the defense
0:36.8	secretary the uh secretary of transportation.
0:39.8	Right now, the National Transportation Safety Board is speaking right now and talking about what
0:46.3	they need to do to figure out what exactly occurred here, as you know by now. Black Hawk helicopter
0:51.1	at a plane collided. We don't know exactly.
0:55.4	I mean, we don't know anything.
0:56.6	There's a ton of information that we don't know yet.
0:59.8	But I'm going to jump into this briefing so you can understand exactly what they're looking for and what they want to assess here.
1:05.7	They both thanked President Trump for his leadership during all this.
1:09.2	Let's take a quick listen here.
1:10.5	The engines and the engine accessories.
1:13.5	We'll have a systems group.
1:16.1	They will study the components of the plane's hydraulic, electrical, pneumatic, and associated
1:20.6	systems, together with the instruments and elements of the flight control system.
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