Transportation Secretary Buttigieg hit back against critics who argue that he only visited the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio because former President Trump had visited days beforehand. Buttigieg calls 'bull' on claims about his trip to Ohio:
Buttigieg conceded to CNN that he should’ve visited the Ohio site sooner and that he didn’t anticipate the political implications of the incident.
But he hit back against his critics and argued that much of the responsibility that is ascribed to him is out of his hands. “It’s really rich to see some of these folks — the former president, these Fox hosts — who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,” Buttigieg told CNN.
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