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PATHETIC: Pete Buttigieg Tries To Blame Trump Administration For Ohio Train Disaster and Toxic Chemical Plume

By Mike LaChance

Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has a new excuse for his horrible handling of the train disaster in Ohio. It’s Trump’s fault!

Buttigieg is trying to suggest that policies put in place in 2018 under Trump prevented the implementation of policies that would have stopped this disaster from happening.

Is Trump also preventing him from doing anything about it now? Because it sure doesn’t look like he is doing very much.

FOX News reports:

Pete Buttigieg blames Trump for Ohio train derailment amid criticism: ‘We’re constrained’

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg shifted part of the blame for the recent derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio on the Trump administration reversing a little-known safety rule.

Buttigieg noted Tuesday evening that his agency had taken a series of steps to improve rail safety through “historic investments,” but said it was constrained by the Trump administration action. In 2018, the Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew a rule proposed three years earlier requiring trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals to utilize electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, saying the technology’s benefits were inconclusive.

Read Full Article Here…(thegatewaypundit.com)


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