Pete Buttigieg Slams Trump’s Comments Following Air Tragedy

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White House memo claiming that the Biden administration recruited “individuals with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities in the FAA” under DEI hiring practices.

Timothy Shriver, the chairman of the board for the Special Olympics, a sports organization for people with disabilities, said on Instagram that “to our knowledge, no persons with profound intellectual disabilities are employed as air traffic controllers in the U.S.

or elsewhere,” reported NBC News.“I don’t know — incompetence might have played a role,” Trump added. “Well, we’ll let you know that, but we want the most competent people.

We don’t care what race they are. We want the most competent people, especially in those positions.”He later pivoted from blaming air controllers and asserted that the helicopter “was obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time.” He claimed the collision stemmed from having two aircraft at the same level, which “shouldn’t have happened.”Then he went after Buttigieg, sarcastically calling him “a real winner.”“You know how badly everything’s run since he’s run this Department of Transportation?” Trump said of Buttigieg. “He’s a disaster.