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Donald Trump blamed Democrats, diversity, stocks and inclusion of collision policies between a commercial plane and a military helicopter that killed 67 people outside Washington.

Without citing evidence, the president said that his evaluation “sound sense” is that the accident was caused by relaxation safety standards as a result of the DEI policies presented by his predecessors.

“There are no survivors”, ” Trump The correspondents told Thursday that he arrived in the podium in the White House press room for the first time in his second presidency.

The US Airways flight, which was run by its PSA Airlines, originated in Whitchita, Kansas. Bombardier CRJ700 was close to Washington Rigan National Airport on Wednesday evening when it collided with a helicopter from the US Army Sikorsky H-60 ​​Black Hawk, He decreased in the Botomac River.

The fuselage from the commercial plane is found in three pieces in the water. The American trip had 60 passengers and four crew members on board, while there were three soldiers in Black Hawk.

Trump, who was surrounded by his vice president and newly introduced him to the defense and transportation secretaries, began his statements to his statement for unity in a “moment of pain”, when the differences between the Americans fade to nothing.

But he quickly launched a political attack against DemocratsSaying that former pioneers Barack Obama and Joe Biden have reduced the criteria for his qualification to be an air traffic controller.

“Safety first, Obama, Biden and Democrats put politics first. Their policy was worse.”

“For air traffic controller, we want to want, the smartest, the most severe. We want a psychologically superior person,” he said, adding that “I do not think” that people who suffer from “severe disabilities” should be observers from air traffic.

After appearing to blame the air traffic monitors, about his attention to the Black Hawk crew.

“She faced a experimental problem from the point of view of the helicopter, because it was visual. It was a very clear night. Trump said that the US airline had burning lights.”

“I have helicopters. You can stop a helicopter very quickly. He added that he had the ability to climb or down, and he had the ability to rotate, and the role he made was not correct.”

US defense officials said that Black Hawk was being transferred by an experienced group of routine training.

Trump said that the investigators were trying to determine whether the forces were using night vision equipment, which “may change your point of view” from the cockpit. A defensive official said the army could not confirm whether the crew is wearing night vision glasses.

Defense Secretary Higseth House “They were on an annual night routine trip to re -train on a record corridor for the continuity of the government mission,” the three soldiers said in the helicopter.

“Tragically, last night, a mistake was made.” He said, “There was a kind of an increase that we started immediately investigating the level of the Ministry of Defense and the Army,” adding that what happened was “completely unacceptable.”

Earlier on Thursday, officials said that the respondents have recovered 28 bodies from the American trip and one Black Hawk body so far.

Trump said that the Russian citizens were on the trip and that the United States would facilitate the bodies of their bodies. There has been no direct air travel between the United States and Russia since Moscow has widely invaded Ukraine.

Dangerous aviation accidents are rare in the United States. It was the last major crash that included an American trade plane in 2009, when 49 people were killed on the Kolghan flight crashed into a house near Buffalo, New York.

Trump urged people to continue flying.

Additional reports by Velicia Schwartz in Washington