Washington D.C. (Special to ZennieReport.com) – President Trump had a busy Thursday. This is a compilation of statements from various hearings and conferences courtesy of the Trump White House Press Office.
(Note: although Zennie62media does not always agree with the President’s comments and statements, we do appreciate that the Trump White House Press Office is more responsive to requests than the Biden Press Office, and keeps us informed. Under Biden, we never received email regarding the President’s words or moves; we did for the First Lady and for the Second Gentleman, but that was it.).
In his hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, FBI Director-designate Kash Patel put on a clinic in dispelling the vicious smears and lies perpetuated against him in recent months — and demonstrated exactly why President Trump nominated him to reform the FBI and make our communities safer.
- “I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI — so let’s ask them,” Patel fired back after lies from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) about his record supporting law enforcement.
Director of National Intelligence-designate Tulsi Gabbard’s appearance before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was equally as impressive. After enduring months of outrageous lies about her patriotism, credentials, and allegiance, Gabbard made clear where she stands: on the side of Americans demanding an end to the politicization of the intelligence community.
- “[My opponents are] accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, Modi’s puppet … The fact is what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet,” Gabbard said in her powerful opening statement.
In his second hearing in as many days, Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., doubled down on his commitment to ending the chronic disease epidemic, restoring transparency to public health, and improving health care for Americans as he implements President Trump’s agenda.
- “All vaccines are dropping because people don’t believe the government anymore — [and] I am going to RESTORE trust,” Kennedy said.
President Trump has nominated the most qualified cabinet in modern history, and it’s time for the Senate to finish the job of confirming them.
President Trump, The Potomac Helicopter Incident, and Statements To The Press
The first executive order is a “formal commission appointing Chris Rochelau to be the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and since the administrator position is currently vacant, he will act as the administrator since he’s now been appointed deputy,” said Will Scharf, the president’s staff secretary.
The second executive action is a memorandum titled “Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety.” “In light of the damage done to aviation safety by the Biden administration’s DEI and woke policies, what this presidential memorandum orders is your secretary of transportation and FAA administrator” to “basically ensure that we are actively undoing all of that damage.”
POTUS on DEI’s role in the DCA tragedy: “We want the most competent people. We don’t care what race they are. We want the most competent people, especially in those positions. You’re talking about extremely complex things, and if they don’t have a great brain, a great power of the brain, they’re not going to be very good at what they do and bad things will happen.”
“All I’m talking about is competence. And we want, in that particular position, we have to have th most competent people in our country, because we’re talking about lives. Now, it may or may not have to do, but I don’t like that the helicopter was at the exact same level as the airplane. The helicopter should’ve been 1,000 feet or 500 feet above it, or something below it. The plane was at 300-400 feet.”
“The plane was on a schedule, you know, a track – they call it a track.” … “It was going down and landing, and the helicopter got in its way.”
“A tragic, tragic story. So I don’t know. Do you blame it on the air traffic controller too in addition to the pilots? They should’ve seen it. I would’ve thought they should’ve seen it.”
On whether DCA should limit traffic: No, I think we need very smart people running the flights and doing it.
On whether military flights in the area are acceptable: “My view is fine if they’re at the right locations and if they’re not at the same levels.”
On whether the accident was preventable: “Oh, absolutely. And obviously that was something that should not have happened, and we’re not going to allow it to happen again.”
On tariffs: “We’ll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons.” … “I’ll be putting the tariff of 25% percent on Canada, and separately, 25% on Mexico, and we’ll really have to do that.” … “It may or may not rise with time.” … “Oil has nothing to do with it, as far as I’m concerned.”
On whether capacity at Guantanamo detention facility could increase: “It could increase, yes. It depends.” … will not cost “very much.” … “A lot of the structure is already there, as you know.”
On Egypt and Jordan accepting displaced Palestinians in Gaza: “They will do it. They will do it. They’re gonna do it, okay? We do a lot for them, and they’re gonna do it.”
On demand for people to report to work potentially resulting in FAA employee departures: “If people aren’t coming to work, if they’re not going to come into the office and report as to the date… everybody knows what the date is, it’s been very well documented… then they’re going to be terminated.” … “Then they’ll be replaced by very competent people. We have a lot of competent people in this country.”
On whether he plans to visit the site of the DCA tragedy: “What’s the site, the water?” “I’ll be meeting with some of the families, yes.”
On birthright citizenship: “Birthright citizenship was, if you look back when this was passed, that was meant for the children of slaves. This was not meant for the whole world to come in and pile into the United States of America, everybody coming in – and totally unqualified people, with perhaps unqualified children.” … “It wasn’t meant for the entire world to occupy the United States.” “I just think we’ll end up winning at the court, the Supreme Court.”
More to come.
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