Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick says it’s too early to place blame after an American Airlines plane crashed with a helicopter near Regan International Airport in Washington D.C. late Wednesday night.
LISTEN: Senator Dave McCormick with Marty on KDKA Radio
President Donald Trump said during a news conference on Thursday that the cause of the crash is not known, but placed blame on diversity, equality initiatives (DEI), along with former Presidents Obama and Biden.
McCormick talked to KDKA Radio’s Marty Griffin after the news conference and said he did not see the president’s news conference but did say it’s too soon to make the crash political.
“I think it’s too early for anyone to speculate on what happened,” said Senator McCormick. “We’re still pulling bodies out of the water, so this is a moment where we mourn, this is a moment where we do everything we can to help the families involved and start the process of getting to the root cause of things. So, I’d be reluctant to assign any blame any root cause, but we got to the bottom of it and we got to get to it quickly.”
Trump was asked about DEI and if he was blaming the crash on it. He was also asked if there was any evidence to the claim.
“It just could have been, we have a high standard, we’ve had a much higher standard than anybody else,” said President Trump.
He also claimed that “powerful tests” were “terminated by Biden” in regards to hiring air traffic controllers.
There is no evidence that is the case.
On the other side of the political aisle, there are some indicating that Trump’s freeze on hiring federal employees could have played a role in the accident.
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There is no evidence as well.
McCormick calls the tragedy in D.C. ‘horrible” and that he and his family are thinking about the families of the victims.
Listen to the interview with McCormick above with Marty and is comments on how important the public learns the truth about the accident.
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