President Donald Trump mourned the loss of the 67 lives in the U.S. Army Black Hawk collision with a passenger jet, but took direct aim at former President Joe Biden and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday morning.

While Trump admitted he does not “know that it’s necessarily the air traffic controllers’ fault,” he hit Buttigieg and Biden for lowering the standards he had put in place for air traffic controllers.

Buttigieg ran things “into the ground with his diversity,” Trump said, pulling no punches on Biden and his unwinding of the first Trump administration’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ATC (air traffic control) standards and a federal DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) push.

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