CNN was unglued late Thursday morning and early afternoon over President Donald Trump’s remarks at the White House press briefing on the deadly mi-air collision over the Potomac River with aviation correspondent Pete Muntean — who had otherwise been invaluable in his analysis and reporting — joining other unsurprising characters in channeling now-former colleague Jim Acosta.
Weekday morning CNN Newsroom host Pamela Brown huffed immediately after that Trump “pretty immediately made this political, blaming DEI and the Democrats on that mid-air collision without providing evidence” and “was a little bit all over the map talking about DEI policies and the FAA, but then questioning the helicopter and the altitude and why it didn’t, in his words, stop or make another move.”
Muntean, a private pilot himself and previous stints in local news, huffed he…
