Few things can unite a nation like a tragedy. From the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, the Challenger disaster in 1986, the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and others, America has been known to put aside our differences and mourn and heal together as a nation. Sadly, that didn’t happen after Wednesday’s midair collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and a civilian airliner over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., at Reagan International Airport.
Rather than focusing on the tragic event and potential victims, the left immediately focused on assigning blame and pointed fingers at President Trump.
“Look, it’s January 29. We are just nine days out from a presidential transition, an administrative transition. The FAA administrator resigned at the end of the Biden administration. So there is no permanent confirmed FAA administrator right now,” CNN’s Abby Phillip said soon after the crash. “This is going to be a time when there’s going to be a lot of public communication and a lot of investigation of what happened here.”
Her guest, former Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo, promptly debunked the insinuation when she told Phillip that “the…
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