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Trump Murdered 3 Servicemen and dozens of passengers - Their Blood Is On His Hands

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Trump will roast in Hell for this.   The fat old senile sickly fuck will 
be dead before he's 80.  


Even as emergency responders were working to recover the remains of 
passengers and crew members who died in the Jan. 29 midair collision near 
the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, social media users, 
especially critics of President Donald Trump, pointed to some of Trump’s 
policies as contributors to the crash.

“Just last week, Trump FIRED the heads of the Transportation Security 
Administration (TSA) and the Coast Guard, and disbanded the Aviation 
Security Advisory Committee,” one X post read. The Associated Press 
reported Jan. 21 that Trump fired those heads and removed all members of 
the committee.

Another X post read, “On your 2ND DAY, you 1. Fired the head of the 
Transportation Security Administration, 2. Fired the entire Aviation 
Security Advisory Committee, 3. Froze hiring of all Air Traffic 
Controllers, 4. Fired 100 top FAA security officers.”

Trump in his first week in office did announce sweeping personnel 
changes, including a hiring freeze. But aviation experts said there was 
little that Trump did that could have precipitated the crash between a 
commercial jet from Wichita, Kansas, and a military Black Hawk 
helicopter. There was simply too little time — less than 10 days after 
Trump was sworn in — for any of his broadly worded executive orders to 
have had an effect, experts said.
 

Although the Transportation Safety Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard 
and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee all play roles in aviation 
safety, “the actions by President Trump would not have led to such an 
immediate impact,” said Jim Cardoso, a former U.S. Air Force colonel and 
pilot who is now senior director of the University of South Florida’s 
Global and National Security Institute.

“All the processes to control and deconflict air traffic in the D.C. area 
have been well established for a long time,” Cardoso said. “The personnel 
involved in the accident — air crew from the two aircraft and the (air 
traffic controllers) in place at the time of the accident — would 
similarly not have been affected by” the recent policy changes in Trump’s 
executive orders since Jan. 20.

It’s also unwise to speculate on causes so soon after a crash, said John 
Cox, a retired pilot who runs a St. Petersburg, Florida-based aviation 
security consulting firm.

“At this point, we don’t know enough,” Cox said Jan. 30. Anyone who 
argues that a specific factor caused the crash not even 24 hours after it 
happens is making an argument “without foundation,” he said.

Cox said the international standard for determining what caused a crash 
“is not to speculate. You stay with the facts. The idea is that it’s more 
important to get the right answer than a politically motivated answer.”

The investigation into the collision will likely take months. For now, 
here’s what we know about what actions Trump has taken related to 
aviation and what effect, if any, they could have had on this crash.
What did Trump do regarding aviation?

In a Jan. 20 executive order, Trump enacted a hiring freeze on federal 
civilian employees, stopping any open positions from being filled and any 
new positions from being created.

However, this order exempted military personnel, positions “related to 
immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety.” Air 
traffic control would be exempted from the hiring freeze because of its 
role in public safety, the White House told PolitiFact. The White House 
also said that, unlike political appointees, air traffic controllers do 
not change between administrations.

On Jan. 21, Trump signed the executive order, “Keeping Americans Safe in 
Aviation.” It eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring 
and directed the transportation secretary and the administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration to “return to non-discriminatory, merit-
based hiring.”
 

It also ordered performance reviews for “individuals in critical safety 
positions.”

Speaking to reporters Jan. 30, Trump blamed FAA diversity and inclusion 
hiring policies for the crash.

Cox said all the pilots and the air traffic controllers involved in the 
Jan. 29 crash would, by definition, have undergone the required training 
requirements and “met the standards to be in that job” and any adherence 
to DEI rules would not have changed that.

The New York Times reported Jan. 30 that staffing at the air traffic 
control tower was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” 
according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration 
safety report. The Reagan airport tower has been understaffed for years, 
in part because of employee turnover and tight budgets, the Times 
reported.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Jan. 21 that Trump had fired TSA 
Administrator David Pekoske and Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan.

However, the TSA’s safety responsibilities generally revolve around 
security screening of passengers, cargo and aviation workers, not the 
operation of planes. And the Coast Guard focuses on maritime security.

Trump also fired all members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, 
a group that includes representatives of private-sector aviation groups. 
They advise the TSA administrator on aviation security. The group was 
scheduled to meet Feb. 26; it usually meets four times a year.

An X post claimed that Trump fired 400 “senior officials” of the Federal 
Aviation Administration and 3,000 air traffic controllers eight days ago. 
But this is unsubstantiated, and the White House told PolitiFact that no 
air traffic controllers had been fired.

In May 2024, CNN reported that, based on FAA numbers, air traffic control 
stations were facing a shortage of 3,000 controllers, with concerns that 
worker shortages were contributing to long shifts and exhaustion.

PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.

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