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CNN was unglued late Thursday morning and early afternoon over President Donald Trump’s remarks at the White House press briefing on the deadly mi-air collision over the Potomac River with aviation correspondent Pete Muntean — who had otherwise been invaluable in his analysis and reporting — joining other unsurprising characters in channeling now-former colleague Jim Acosta.
Muntean, a private pilot himself and previous stints in local news, claimed without evidence on Inside Politics that Trump’s rampant speculation of possible causes was making life even more “hellish” for the families of those lost and could muddy the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation.
He shared this is personal for him as he lost his mother in a different crash:
And so, for the families that are going through hell right now, and I know this because I've lost my mother to a plane crash, this made it even more hellish. What was that? I just cannot — I'm sorry to get angry, but what is the point of — of making some sort of speculative, wide ranging, rudderless claim about anything about hiring at the FAA?
He did explain the challenge across multiple administrations of a major air traffic controller shortage, but again sucked up to his friends on the left by saying “that is something that the Biden administration, to their credit, really, tried to shore up.”
Speaking of stating things without evidence, Muntean disgustingly asserted he “cannot imagine after” having listened to Trump that anyone would want to be an air traffic controller.
