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DC plane crash live updates: Trump appears to blame diversity, 'confluence of bad decisions'

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -33% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared alongside Trump, adding, "We will have the best and brightest in every position possible.
56% : " "Brilliant people have to be in those positions," Trump said.
56% : " "Our hearts are shattered," Trump said in a press briefing at the White House, after holding a moment of silence.
43% : " "We are all searching for answers," Trump said, adding, "We do not know what led to this crash" but have "some pretty good ideas.
39% : "For some reason, there weren't adjustments made," Trump said.
36% : " Trump said before he entered office the Federal Aviation Administration's diversity and inclusion hiring plan was "actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems.
34% : And the turn it made was not the correct turn, obviously, and it did somewhat the opposite of what it was told," Trump said.
32% : Trump offered no context or evidence and DEI was among a number of explanations he offered.
29% : DC plane crash live updates: Trump appears to blame diversity, 'confluence of bad decisions' IVAN PEREIRA, MEREDITH DELISO and EMILY SHAPIRO January 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors expected amid the extremely cold and windy conditions.
26% : When pressed by ABC News' Mary Bruce, Trump said that "we don't know" what caused the crash and added that they're still looking into it.
24% : "You had a confluence of bad decisions that were made," Trump said.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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