You all heard about the crash into the Potomac, will the MAGA is spreading lies about it...
A decorated trans army service member, Jo Ellis, has taken to Facebook to debunk viral claims that she was the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that was involved in the fatal mid-air crash in Washington on Wednesday.Pink NewsBy Hilary MitchellJanuary 31, 202567 people are believed to have been killed in the incident, after an American Airlines plane from Kansas carrying 64 people onboard collided with a military helicopter, manned by three personnel, the BBC reports.Following the tragedy, an X account called FakeGayPolitics shared a post that claimed Jo Ellis was the pilot of the helicopter at the time of the crash. It has since gone viral, and has even been picked up by various news sources, despite being false.The misinformation states “The pilot of the Black Hawk has been identified as Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2) Jo Ellis, a transgender woman. Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. Jo has been making radicalized anti-Trump statements on socials.”
It is totally illogical... she is alive how could she have been piloting the helicopter? All on board died!
In response, Jo Ellis took to her personal Facebook page on Friday (31 January) to debunk the claims, sharing a screenshot of the viral tweet and writing: “Some craziness has happened on the internet and I’m being named as one of the pilots of the DC crash. Please report any accounts or posts you see. It’s insulting to the victims and families of those lost and they deserve better than this BS from the bots and trolls of the internet.”
The are being egged on by Trump...
CBS NewsBy Laura Doan, Alex ClarkJanuary 30, 2025In a Thursday press briefing, President Trump criticized his predecessor for his management of the Federal Aviation Administration and suggested, without evidence, that diversity initiatives at the agency could be to blame for a deadly crash between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C."I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first," Mr. Trump said. "The FAA's website states they include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism." Mr. Trump added that people in those categories would be "qualified" for controller positions, even though the agency's statement does not say that.The president continued, "Brilliant people have to be in those positions."
He even contradicted himself, ABC News reported that...
"I put safety first, Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen," Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room, referring to the policies, even as the investigation into what happened is just getting underway.
But the press secretary contradicted him,
When asked in the earlier briefing by ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce whether he was saying the crash was the result of diversity hiring, Trump said, "we don't know" what caused the crash, adding investigators are still looking into that. "It just could have been. We have a high standard. We've had a higher, much higher standard than anybody else."
Trump said that,
Trump said Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary in the Biden administration, "just got a good line of bulls---" and said he had "run [the Department of Transportation] right into the ground with his diversity."
Pink News ended with,
Asked by a reporter how he could blame the initiatives for the crash when an investigation into the incident had only just begun, Trump said: “Because I have common sense.”
How can you trust someone that is a habitual liar? It is one lie after another! Here in the middle of this disaster and Trump and his cronies tries to blame the Democrats... he play politics with their lives!
Then you have the falsely accused trans helicopter pilot, the New York Time wrote...
Jo Ellis, a helicopter pilot in the Virginia Army National Guard, was falsely identified as the captain of the crashed Black Hawk helicopter in thousands of social media posts this week. The flurry of falsehoods were so extreme that Ms. Ellis, who is transgender, posted a “proof of life” video to Facebook clarifying that she is alive and had not flown the crashed chopper.The falsehoods, which tried to tie Ms. Ellis’s transgender identity to the tragedy, spread online shortly after President Trump and his allies attempted to tie the crash in Washington, D.C., to so-called “D.E.I. programs,” an array of initiatives meant to boost diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. There is no evidence that such programs played any role in the crash.“I understand some people have associated me with the crash in D.C. and that is false,” Ms. Ellis said in a video posted to her Facebook account. “It is insulting to the families to try to tie this to some sort of political agenda. They don’t deserve that. I don’t deserve this.”
Anything to cast aspersions on our community!
Updated:4:00PM
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