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Pete Buttigieg Responds to Trump Criticism, Humiliates Himself in the Process

It was inevitable that after President Trump called Pete Buttigieg out during a press conference following the devastating air disaster at Reagan National Airport on Jan. 29—one that tragically claimed 67 lives—that the former Transportation Secretary would respond.

“The FAA, which was overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg—a real winner. This guy’s a real winner,” Trump said, thick with sarcasm. “Do you know how badly everything’s run since he’s run this Department of Transportation? He’s a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his city into the ground, and he’s a disaster. Now, he’s just got a good line of bulls—t.”

Trump continued, “The Department of Transportation, his government agency, charged with regulating civil aviation, well, he runs it, 45,000 people, and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity.”

With renewed focus on the impact of diversity initiatives and DEI programs and their impact on aviation safety, Buttigieg responded in a post on X.

“Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.”

This, of course, isn’t completely accurate. An Aug. 2023 investigation by the New York Times exposed a disturbing surge in near collisions at U.S. airports, raising serious safety concerns.

“So far [in 2023], close calls involving commercial airlines have been happening, on average, multiple times a week,” the Times reported after analyzing internal FAA records. In July 2023 alone, there were a staggering 46 near-misses involving commercial aircraft.

Buttigieg himself acknowledged that close calls and near collisions were “out of control” back in 2023.

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The Question Must Be Asked – Was It A Suicide Mission?

As I mentioned in another article, I have several thousand hours in high-performance rotary-wing aircraft flying for a Tier One Special Operations unit.

Mid-air collisions do happen.

In my experience, they typically happen on a no-moon night with very low visibility while on night-vision googles, during low visibility in bad weather, while flying in close formation, or when one aircraft makes a violent movement and a close-by aircraft cannot move in time to avoid a collision.

In fact, I am not aware of a collision where an aircraft is on a straight flight path, for a long time, on a clear night, and hits another aircraft essentially flying at the same altitude with massive landing and navigation lights illuminated.

There were two pilots and a crew chief on board. The crew chief’s job is to scan for other aircraft when he’s not busy.

The co-pilot should have also been scanning constantly (DC is a busy operational area and any well-trained crew would be doing so).

I think the question at least needs to be investigated as to whether this was a suicide crash.

We have motive – President Trump’s election and the malicious media narrative that he was going to literally ‘kill gay people’ or put them in prison.

Today the Blackhawk helicopter’s pilot-in-command was identified as Captain Rebecca Lobach.

An apparent lesbian who attended pride events, as the family’s statement seems to have confirmed, would be especially cognizant of the President’s order to remove transgenders from the military.

Then there is the political angle, as Captain Lobach literally worked inside the Biden White House.

A proper investigation would reveal if there were any signs Captain Lobach was upset over developments and political change in America.

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Washington D.C. Plane CrashPilot Identified After Army Initially Refused

The final member of the three-person crew in the Black Hawk that crashed into an American Airlines passenger jet leading to the death of 67 people has been identified.

Captain Rebecca Lobach — the pilot of the helicopter — was identified by the U.S. Army as the final member of the ill-fated crew. She was 28 years old.

While the U.S. Army initially declined to name Lobach at the behest of the family, they changed course Saturday when the family released their own statement about her death.

Lobach’s family released a statement to the media … touting her accomplishments during her time in the military — and making it clear she worked hard to get where she did.

In addition, the Lobach family says Rebecca actually helped out in the White House … organizing events for the President and First Lady — presumably Joe and Jill Biden.

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NTSB Chief Shuts Down NBC Reporter Who Asks Stupid Question About Trump During Briefing on DC Plane Crash 

During a briefing on the DC plane crash by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a reporter for NBC News asked if Trump was somehow making their investigation more difficult. The NTSB chief stepped forward and shut him down.

This was an embarrassing moment for NBC News. These journalists just can’t help themselves. They are still on a constant quest to blame Trump or make him look bad at any moment, no matter how inappropriate. They really seem to believe that other people share this mental problem with them.

It makes them look foolish, not to mention unprofessional.

The NTSB handled this perfectly.

The Daily Mail reported:

Female NTSB head stuns the press with her unexpected response to Trump’s claim DEI caused the crash

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifery Homendy stunned reporters after being asked several ways if President Donald Trump jumped the gun by blaming the deadly D.C. crash on ‘DEI’ and previous administrations.

Homendy led a press conference on-site at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Thursday afternoon.

Several of the reporters in the crowd asked her about Trump’s eyebrow-raising assertions that he made standing at the podium earlier Thursday in the White House briefing room.

‘With all due respect, I think the press also likes to state what probable cause is before we get to the probable cause,’ Homendy said. ‘So what I’m going to say is you need to give us time.’

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Army refuses to identify female Black Hawk pilot killed in DC collision

The Army is refusing to name the female pilot killed aboard the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet flying into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday.

In an announcement Friday, the Army, which disclosed the names of the two other soldiers in the chopper who died, said the woman’s family requested her identity be withheld from the public.

“At the request of the family, the name of the third Soldier will not be released at this time,” the Army Public Affairs wrote on their website.

The unidentified soldier was an experienced pilot with more than 500 hours of flying experience, the Telegraph reported, citing Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff of the army’s aviation directorate.

The Army on Friday formally identified Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, as the two other service members who were on the Black Hawk helicopter when it went down in the fiery crash into the Potomac River.

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Name Of Female Blackhawk Pilot Not Yet Released, Spurring Social Media Theories

Social media has erupted over theories the deceased female pilot of the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into a commercial jet near Reagan National airport in Washington, DC was a transgender pilot.

Sources tell AFP this rumor is untrue, and the deceased Blackhawk driver was indeed a woman.

However, the name of the female pilot has not been released.

In addition, a video is making its way around the internet of an ADSB readout showing erratic moves of the helicopter towards other aircraft prior to the crash. Since the Blackhawk usually is not equipped with ADSB, we also cannot confirm this video and readers should be suspect as to its authenticity.

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BOOM! NTSB Chair Calls Out Media Hypocrisy on Crash Speculation

The National Transportation Safety Board just gave an update on last night’s midair collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines commuter flight. More than 60 individuals are presumed dead, and recovery efforts continue in the Potomac River.

Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t a lot of new information—with one exception: board member J. Todd Inman stated that “no chutes or slides were deployed” subsequent to the crash, indicating that there was no time to deploy emergency evacuation procedures. 

A reporter from NBC, Tom Costello, asked NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, “Does it hurt your investigation process to have the president already suggesting possible causes here as you try to keep in mind and begin this investigation?”

Homendy wasn’t having it. “Tom, with all due respect, I think the press also likes to state what probable cause is before we get to the probable cause. So what I’m going to say is you need to give us time.”

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Weird! Lockheed Martin Boasted Of Remote Blackhawk Helicopter Technology Three Months Before Tragic DC Aerial Disaster

The internet is buzzing with rumors and speculation following the tragic airplane and helicopter crash in Washington D.C. Wednesday.

An American Airlines passenger jet and Army Black Hawk helicopter collided around 9 p.m. Eastern near Reagan National Airport, causing both aircraft to fall into the Potomac River where 67 people died according to officials.

In the aftermath of the disaster, a video went viral showing top U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin advertising technology that allows Black Hawk helicopters to be flown autonomously.

During the October 2024 Association of the United States Army National Convention, the “Black Hawk of the future” was advertised by Sikorsky Vice President Richard Benton.

Stephanie Hill, the president of Rotary and Mission Systems boasted the technology would allow the military to “fly this optimally piloted autonomous Black Hawk in Connecticut from three hundred miles away right here in Washington D.C.”

With the push of a button on an iPad, Hill commanded the helicopter to take off and simulate “tested logistic operations.”

The Lockheed video said its “MATRIX flight autonomy system” will deliver the future of flight.

According to the U.S. Army, the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the American Airlines flight was engaged in a training flight carrying three soldiers from “Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir.”

Is it possible the new autonomous tech was being tested during the flight or that the aircraft was somehow hacked?

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Sick Leftists Blame Trump For Plane/Chopper Collision

Following a tragic collision between an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter in DC, from which no survivors have yet been found, sick leftists rushed to blame President Trump.

The apparent accident, involving an American Airlines plane and a Blackhawk helicopter, reportedly a military chopper, occurred near the Reagan National Airport.

Footage of the collision quickly emerged.

The FBI has stated that there are no signs of terrorism being the cause of the collision, but many are questioning why the chopper appeared to just fly into the plane.

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Doctors Killed in Brazilian Plane Crash Promised to Release Evidence Tying mRNA ‘Vaccines’ to Turbo Cancer

The other day, we reported that eight of the 62 (not 68 as was originally reported) people who died in the recent ATR 72 turboprop plane crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were doctors headed to an important oncology conference. It has since come out that six of these eight were also scientists who planned to expose mRNA (modRNA) “vaccines” as a cause of turbo cancer.

The following six scientists were planning to do a really good thing before someone sabotaged the plane they were traveling on to ensure their message was never sent or received:

1) Dr. José Roberto Leonel Ferreira, a senior radiologist who had a significant impact in the field of radiology, particularly in pediatric radiology

2) Dr. Mariana Belim, an intensivist in the Adult ICU at the Western Paraná University Hospital (Huop)

3) Dr. Ariane Risso, also from the Uopeccan Cancer Hospital in Cascavel

4) Edilson Hobold, a professor of physical education

5) Deonir Secco, a professor of agricultural engineering

6) Raquel Ribeiro Moreira, a literature professor at the Cascavel campus

All six of these individuals were highly respected professionals in their respective fields. The purpose of their travel was to share their expertise in front of a large audience, which apparently had to be stopped to keep a lid on the truth.

The other two medical professionals who perished were resident medics, reports indicate.

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