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CNN’s Abby Phillip appeared to suggest that President Donald Trump was to blame for the midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter less than an hour after the tragedy was first reported.
“Look, it’s January 29th. We are just nine days out from a presidential transition, an administrative transition. The FAA administrator resigned at the end of the Biden administration. So there is no permanent confirmed FAA administrator right now,” Phillip said. “This is going to be a time when there’s going to be a lot of public communication and a lot of investigation of what happened here,” she added, seemingly suggesting that the Trump Administration is to blame.
“What do you anticipate this transition period is going to mean for what happens today and tomorrow and in the coming days as we find out what happened here?” Phillip asked former Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo, who later dismissed the suggestion. “Air traffic controllers do not come and go with the change of an administration … The politics of the situation should have had no impact whatsoever on air traffic controllers,” Schiavo said in a follow-up segment.
CNN contributor made a similar suggestion, pointing to President Trump’s executive order that instituted a hiring freeze for federal workers. “8 days ago,” Sellers wrote in an X post less than an hour after the crash.
After backlash, Sellers deleted the post and issued an apology. “I deleted the post because timing matters. Politics at this point does not. I fu**ed up, I own that. I am very prayerful but I’m also very frustrated upset and disturbed with where we are as a country. I recognize, and I will do better,” Sellers wrote in a follow-up post. “The only thing that matters is rescuing the survivors, and ensuring this never happens again.”
U.S. Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) also appeared to blame President Trump for the tragedy by pointing to the hiring freeze. “Praying for the families and demanding answers,” she wrote in an X post…
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