CNN anchor gobsmacked that Trump placed blame while bodies are 'fished out of the Patomac'

CNN's Dana Bash appeared gobsmacked that President Donald Trump injected politics into his remarks about the tragic mid-air collision that claimed 67 lives over the Potomac River Wednesday night.

Bash showed a live shot of the teams working to recover bodies, when Bash commented, "As this is happening, the president of the United States went into the White House briefing room, and almost immediately began to blame Democrats for the diversity programs that were in place, suggesting, as he admitted, without evidence, that perhaps there is a connection between that and what you are looking at."

Bash then played a portion of Trump's remarks.

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"I put safety first. 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. Their policy was horrible and their politics was even worse. You have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses. You can't have regular people doing that job. They won't be able to do it. But we'll restore faith in American air travel."

Trump continued, "I'll have more to say about that. I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office, and here's one, the FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing."

Getting rid of Biden-era Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies and returning to "meritocracy" has been a cornerstone of Trump's second term.

Bash once again went to the live shot.

"I just want to emphasize what you're looking at is live," Bash said of the recovery effort live shot. This is just a few miles down the road from the White House. The bodies of the 67 people believed to have perished are still being fished out of the Potomac River — the icy Potomac River — when we heard that from the president of the United States and from other senior members of his cabinet, in addition to some words of condolence and and remorse and and prayers for some of them."

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