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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/analysis-trump-news-conference-dc-plane-crash/index.htmlCNN
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
7 minute read
Published 3:27 PM EST, Thu January 30, 2025
There is a good reason why American commercial airliners have safely flown billions of miles since the last major tragedy.
Every incident, near miss or accident is minutely investigated, without rushed conclusions, political bias or uninformed speculation. The result is an industry based on multiple layers of redundancy, faithfully followed safety protocols, pilot checklists and codes of practice that have made the unnatural business of humans taking to the skies safer than climbing into a car.
President Donald Trump on Thursday ignored all those principles when addressing the disaster in Washingtons crowded skies the night before, in one of the most staggering spectacles in the White House briefing room since his last term.
In his first national crisis since reassuming the presidency, he put his political goals and need for adulation above the need to find untainted answers about the catastrophe and over the indescribable pain of victims families.
More at link. Not sure who this reporter is, but I have to wonder whether his head will roll for calling out slobby. I never open CNN anymore & only did th8s time because of the apoarent negative press regarding slobby.
The article goes on to say tfg called for unity following this tragedy, then immediately pivoted to blaming Obama & Biden.
Rather refreshing.
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CNN Critical of slobby? 😱 Trump steamrolls every principle of aviation safety in wild news conference (Original Post)
SheltieLover
Feb 2025
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Hugin
(37,848 posts)1. Removing redundancy is Musk's special sauce...
He views it as unnecessary and expensive. In a word, inefficient.
A luxury. Like having a private police force, hospital, military, or fire response. (To name a few.)
Lovie777
(22,985 posts)2. shithole musk and the republican party......................
hate The United States of America.
cloudbase
(6,270 posts)3. From the article:
The president is right that limited information flow after disasters and technical reports issued years later often dont give Americans the respect they deserve in making their own transportation decisions. And Bidens inability to project authority did in recent years sometimes leave an impression that no one was in command.
100% bullshit.
Swede
(39,496 posts)4. Just let the CNN videos play one after the other, they are an indictment of Trump and his goons.
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