Senators Mark Kelly and Eric Schmitt offered differing takes on President Trump’s DEI-related commentary following the American Eagle plane crash in Washington, D.C.
Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker that Trump blaming the crash on diversity initiatives is “just poor leadership.”
“I really feel for the families on the plane, on the helicopter. It’s, you know – you know, these accidents are all often very complicated set of things that happen sequentially,” said Kelly, a former astronaut. “It’s often not one thing that causes a major aviation accident like this. I’ve been involved in accident investigations, particularly like with the – with space shuttle Columbia, you know, as an example, that we, we lost in 2003.”