{"id":76358,"date":"2025-01-31T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=76358"},"modified":"2025-01-31T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:16:32","slug":"trump-was-challenged-after-blaming-dei-for-the-dc-plane-crash-heres-what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/trump-was-challenged-after-blaming-dei-for-the-dc-plane-crash-heres-what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump was challenged after blaming DEI for the DC plane crash. Here\u2019s what he said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: President Donald Trump began his White House briefing Thursday with a moment of silence and a prayer for victims of Wednesday\u2019s crash at Reagan National Airport. But his remarks quickly became a diatribe against diversity hiring and his allegation \u2014 so far without evidence \u2014 that lowered standards were to blame for the crash.<br \/>\nTrump on Thursday variously pointed the finger at the helicopter\u2019s pilot, air traffic control, his predecessor, Joe Biden, and other Democrats including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whom he labeled a \u201cdisaster.\u201d Buttigieg responded by calling Trump \u201cdespicable.\u201d<br \/>\nThe cause of the crash is still unknown. Authorities are investigating and have not publicly identified the cause or said who might have been responsible for the collision of an American Airlines plane and a US Army helicopter.<br \/>\nReporters on Thursday challenged Trump\u2019s claims. Here\u2019s a look at how Trump responded to some of their questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: President Donald Trump began his White House briefing Thursday with a moment of silence and a prayer for victims of Wednesday\u2019s crash at Reagan National Airport. But his remarks quickly became a diatribe against diversity hiring and his allegation \u2014 so far without evidence \u2014 that lowered standards were to blame for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":76377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76385,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358\/revisions\/76385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}