Speculation can be the opposite of information, but any breaking news event is going to be wallowing in it. A plane-helicopter crash that kills 67 over the nation’s capital is going to dominate many news cycles. The victims and their loved ones left behind deserve a nonpartisan, fact-based investigation of what happened. Our political system makes that difficult.
It would be nice if any blame games could be postponed until more information is known. Some Democrats on social media were blaming President Trump early on. The Democrats in the media were furious that Trump would hint that the Federal Aviation Administration’s crusade to water down hiring standards for air traffic controllers for DEI reasons “could have been” part of the problem.
The networks announced Trump claimed “without evidence” that DEI could be to blame. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins questioned…
