As the nation reeled from the deadliest American aviation disaster in more than two decades, President Donald Trump on Thursday baselessly blamed diversity initiatives for undermining air safety and questioned the actions of a U.S. Army helicopter pilot involved in the midair collision with a commercial airliner.
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00:00I'd like to request a moment of silence for the victims and their families, please.
00:14I speak to you this morning in an hour of anguish.
00:19We are one family, and today we are all heartbroken.
00:22We're all searching for answers.
00:25The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric
00:33problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative
00:38spelled out on the agency's website.
00:41Can you imagine?
00:42Are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring?
00:47And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?
00:50It just could have been.
00:51We have a high standard.
00:53We've had a much higher standard than anybody else.
00:56And there are things where you have to go by brain power.
00:59You have to go by psychological quality, and psychological quality is a very important
01:06element of it.
01:07These are various, very powerful tests that we put to use, and they were terminated by
01:11Biden.
01:12And Biden went by a standard that's the exact opposite.
01:15So we don't know.
01:16But we do know that you had two planes at the same level.
01:19You had a helicopter and a plane.
01:21That shouldn't have happened.
01:23Mr. President, you have today blamed the diversity elements, but then told us that you weren't
01:30sure that the controllers made any mistakes.
01:33You then said perhaps the helicopter pilots were the ones who made the mistakes.
01:38It's all under investigation.
01:39I understand that.
01:41That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that
01:45diversity had something to do with this crash.
01:48Because I have common sense, okay?