Pete Buttigieg Slams Trump For Blaming Him For Plane Crash | EUROtoday

Although the reason for the collision nonetheless isn’t clear, Trump has blamed the crash on air visitors controllers, the helicopter pilots and variety in hiring at federal businesses.

He additionally singled out Buttigieg as a potential wrongdoer — with none precise proof.

“Do you know how badly everything’s run since he’s run this Department of Transportation? He’s a disaster,” Trump stated throughout a press convention concerning the crash on Thursday. “He was a disaster as a mayor, he ran his city into the ground, and he’s a disaster. Now, he’s just got a good line of bullshit. The Department of Transportation, his government agency charged with regulating civil aviation while he runs it, 45,000 people, and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity, so I had to say that it’s terrible.”

Buttigieg shortly responded to Trump’s blame recreation on social media, calling the assault “despicable.”

The former transportation secretary stated the president “should be leading, not lying” and defended his efficiency within the position.

“We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch,” Buttigieg stated.

He additionally famous that one in all Trump’s first actions since being inaugurated was “to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe.”

Buttigieg concluded by saying that it was “time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.”

HuffPost reached out to Sean Duffy, the present transportation secretary, to see if he agrees with Trump partially blaming the collision on his predecessor, however nobody instantly responded.

While talking with reporters Thursday morning, Duffy stated that the crash was “absolutely” preventable, including, “Obviously, it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that.”