Fact check: Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : " Trump's claim was repeated in an executive order Trump signed Thursday that ordered a review of aviation safety: "During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence.
67% : In the news conference, Trump said Obama weakened standards and "I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best, to extraordinary. ...
57% : Trump earns four Pinocchios.
56% : " - President Donald Trump, decrying what he called DEI standards imposed by previous administrations, Jan. 30 - - - In the aftermath of the deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport, Trump held an extraordinary news conference during which he speculated on the cause of the accident.
56% : Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.
49% : " But here's the rub: During Trump's first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.
49% : In his first term, Trump left the standards unchanged.
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.
33% : Trump claimed that he had changed Obama's criteria for hiring air traffic controllers with greater diversity - when in fact he left it unchanged.

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