'Pretty horrified': Senator says Trump showed 'disregard' for victims with 'cruel' comment
A Democratic senator admonished president Donald Trump for speculating about the cause of a deadly midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter.
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) appeared Friday morning on CNN to discuss his fierce grilling of Trump's FBI nominee Kash Patel, who refused to say that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election, and he was then asked to comment on the current president's reaction to the crash.
"Well, I was pretty horrified," Welch said. "I mean, you know, we heard that diver talking about just the incredible tragedy, and you've got 67 families where they're grief-stricken and they want any little bit of information they can get about those last moments of the loved ones and how they are, and they're now underwater, strapped in, and the president says something that's absolutely false, no basis, and frankly cruel. So I was really shocked on a human level that there would be such disregard for the emotional tragedy and suffering of the families."
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Welch was then asked how Democratic lawmakers intend to oppose the Trump agenda despite their congressional minorities in both the House and Senate.
"Let's just have a reality check here," Welch said. "One, the president is starting to show what his style and approach is going to be, and we are pushing back on that. This across-the-board cut with no heads up to anybody has been extraordinarily disruptive. Now, what the president says is he likes the chaos, but, in fact, it inflicts a lot of cruelty because you've got all these people, you know, you're going to bring your child to Head Start and you get a note, you can't come in. You're a mom who has a dental appointment that you finally got through Medicaid, and it's canceled. That is just really a harsh thing to do, and it's, by the way, illegal."
"So we're saying that we're speaking out, but also the effect of this as people start to see that Trump talking about his concern for everyday folks is actually false, that he's doing things that really hurt everyday folks," the senator added. "In addition, by the way, to the price of eggs going way up under his short term in office."
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