Trans Black Hawk pilot forced to respond after she's falsely identified as D.C. crash captain
Trans Black Hawk pilot forced to respond after she's falsely identified as D.C. crash captain
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Jo Ellis has served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and found herself the subject of thousands of false social media posts on Friday morning. A transgender helicopter pilot was forced to respond after she was falsely identified as the captain of the Black Hawk that crashed in Washington, D.C. Jo Ellis has served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and on Friday found herself the subject of thousands of false social media posts claiming that she was the third crew member aboard the helicopter that collided with the passenger jet, carrying 64 people.
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One of them which had been reposted many times said that Ellis “has been making radicalized anti-Trump statements on socials.”. As a result, the false social media posts about Ellis attempted to tie her transgender identity to the crash. “Some craziness has happened on the internet and I’m being named as one of the pilots of the DC crash,” Ellis responded. “Please report any accounts or posts you see. It’s insulting to the victims and families of those lost and they deserve better than this BS from the bots and trolls of the internet.”.
He added that he reached the conclusion because “I have common sense.”. Trump also claimed without evidence that the Biden and Obama administrations had lowered aviation hiring standards. He criticized an effort to hire people with disabilities that existed throughout his entire first term in office. “I put safety first,” Trump claimed. “Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen because this was the lowest level.”.
