‘I deleted the post because timing matters. Politics at this point does not,’ Bakari Sellers wrote on Wednesday night. ‘I f***ed up.’. CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers apologized on Wednesday night after deleting a tweet that placed blame on President Donald Trump for the deadly midair crash over Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., claiming he “f***ed up” by citing the president’s federal hiring freeze as a potential reason for the horrific accident.
Sellers’ initial post sparked backlash among Trump supporters and right-wing commentators, who called the former Democratic lawmaker “despicable” and a “broken human being” for tying the tragedy to Trump’s executive actions. Officials said on Thursday that they do not expect any survivors after an American Airlines passenger plane making its landing approach collided with a Black Hawk helicopter that was on a training mission over the D.C. airport. The flight was arriving from Wichita, Kansas, and carried 64 passengers and crew, including several members of the U.S. Figure Skating team. The Army helicopter had three soldiers aboard.
“We probably lost 60 Kansans tonight,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told reporters at a Thursday morning briefing. “Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry,” House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure ranking member Rick Larsen (D-WA) stated. “Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEI claims to justify this decision.”.
