FAA Diversity Program Trump Blames For Air Crash Was Started In First Trump Administration, Reveals the Washington Post

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Kessler notes that "the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference."
43% : Then they changed it back -- that was Biden," Trump said to reporters.
43% : But Trump, in his first term, left the policy in place, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by Mountain States Legal Foundation.
43% : Travers asked Trump, to which he replied, "It may have.
31% : " Trump was pressed by ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers on Thursday about his claims regarding DEI and the crash.
21% : " While the investigation as to exactly what caused the midair collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial airliner continues, Kessler made clear that the policy Trump was trying to blame the disaster on actually began in 2019, during his first administration.

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