Just minutes after news broke of the tragic mid-air collision between a commercial airliner and an Army Blackhawk, members of the liberal media rushed to politicize the accident by blaming President Trump and his cuts to federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs (including at the FAA). And when Trump spoke out in his defense during a Thursday press conference and floated the idea that DEI programs might have played a role, two NBC News reporters were up in arms and insisted Trump, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ruined the investigation.
Amid his update on the recovery process underway in the Potomac River, NBC aviation correspondent Tom Costello complained that Trump had gone against how the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) goes about announcing updates and conducting investigations:
And what struck me about this entire…
