Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defended his response to the East Palestine train derailment by attacking Republicans on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” Thursday night.
appeared to blame former President Trump and Republicans like Sen. Marco Rubio’s, R-Fla., for the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Thursday after facing intense backlash for his own performance.
"You know, the sort of theatrics of Donald Trump being in Palestine were odd, but this is a community that voted overwhelmingly for him. The county that Palestine is in voted 71/29 for Donald Trump. I want you to reflect on the irony. In 2016, it was 68/26. This is a Trump county. What do you make of the fact he went there despite the fact the regulations he rolled back were partly responsible for this tragedy?" Reid asked."It was definitely an ironic thing to do.
Reid continued to harp on Republican criticism of Buttigieg, remarking on Rubio's call for him to resign. "You mentioned political silly season. I mean, it is. It’s a campaign season. One of the people who have taken a lot of the blame and taken a lot of the bricks is you. Senator Marco Rubio. There’s been a lot of criticism over the time it took to arrive, for you to personally go, for the president to go. And they’re even using the president’s trip to Ukraine as a wedge.
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