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89. Link to fact check on the orange one's despicable lying about FAA hiring individuals with disabilities policy -

of course, he's lying

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/faa-employees-disabilities-targeted-trumps-anti-dei-push/402444/

Shortly after a door blew out on a plane in January 2024, Fox News published an article headlined “FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities.” The original article seems to have been taken down (although a similar article is still up on its website), but it was republished by the New York Post and shared on social media at the time by Elon Musk, the leader of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency.

The fact-checking website Snopes, however, pointed out that the language from the FAA’s website that Fox News highlighted, which discusses hiring of people with targeted disabilities, was present for all of Trump’s first term and had been published as early as 2013.

Targeted disabilities are generally manifest, such as deafness, blindness, significant mobility impairments and intellectual disabilities.

“The implication that the policy is new, or that it stems from efforts that began under U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and President Biden, was demonstrably false,” Snopes investigative journalist Alex Kasprak wrote.

FAA said in a statement to Fox News for the 2024 article that: “The FAA employs tens of thousands of people for a wide range of positions, from administrative roles to oversight and execution of critical safety functions. Like many large employers, the agency proactively seeks qualified candidates from as many sources as possible, all of whom must meet rigorous qualifications that of course will vary by position.”