Shortly after taking office ten days ago, Grifter-in-Chief Donald Trump dismissed key officials who investigate air crashes such as the one that took place in Washington, D.C. last night and is believed to have claimed the lives of 67 people.
Why did Trump fire or force out those officials? Because Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk told him to, according to a disturbing report from The Daily Beast.
Federal Aviation Administration chairman Michael Whitaker should be on the crash scene right now, but because he dared to impose fines of more than $600,000 against Musk’s SpaceX over safety violations, Whitaker was one of the first people Trump dismissed.
On Sept. 17 of last year, Musk made his disdain for Whitaker clear, posting, “The FAA space division is harassing SpaceX about nonsense that doesn’t affect safety while giving a free pass to Boeing even after NASA concluded that their spacecraft was not safe enough to bring back the astronauts.”
Musk has also criticized Whitaker for blocking his plan to send astronauts to Mars, a mission that would normally be carried out by NASA but appears to have been farmed out to SpaceX.
In a follow-up tweet to his anti-Whitaker posting, Musk argued, “The fundamental problem is that humanity will forever be confined to Earth unless there is radical reform at the FAA!”
Whitaker isn’t the only aviation official Trump pushed out in the first days of his administration.
The heads of the Transportation Security Administration and every Aviation Security Advisory Committee member were also summarily dismissed just a day after Trump took office because, he claimed, they had “misused” resources that belonged to the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump and Musk are also behind an email sent out this week urging 2.3 million federal employees to either dedicate themselves to the MAGA movement or accept a buyout and leave their agencies.
At the moment, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have the blood of at least 60 people on their hands. But rather than apologize, you can expect them to blame others.
