<p>CNN anchor Dana Bash spoke to a network aviation expert on Tuesday, who explained that there was no &#8220;common thread&#8221; linking recent plane crashes despite the repeated attempts of Democrats and media to create one. Bash even repeated the statement aloud before pivoting to suggest that there was one.</p>
<p>Bash spoke with aviation correspondent Pete Muntean on &#8220;Inside Politics&#8221; just ahead of a panel discussion on the issue, and he confirmed reports that a landing gear malfunction was the likely cause of the most recent crash in Toronto.</p>
<p>Repeating Muntean&#8217;s statement that there was &#8220;no common thread&#8221; connecting the crashes, Bash then executed a 180-degree turn and added a &#8220;but &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m back here with our fantastic panel. Let&#8217;s broaden it out a little bit to talk about what is going on here in Washington. As he said, there&#8217;s no thread between all of those except the obvious, which is that planes are crashing, which is frightening,&#8221; she began. &#8220;<strong><em>But</em></strong> this is happening against the backdrop of massive cuts across the federal government, including at the FAA.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Politico&#39;s Eli Stokols adds &quot;You know, you see planes crashing left and right&#8230;at some point people may connect the dots and they may come to blame this administration, this government, if they have just bulldozed their way through government, taken out a lot of expertise… <a href="https://t.co/HL5DUg865Q">pic.twitter.com/HL5DUg865Q</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexchristy17/status/1891906685200921031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Panelist Eli Stokols, White House and foreign policy correspondent for Politico, also weighed in on the issue.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know, you see planes crashing left and right &#8230; at some point people may connect the dots and they may come to blame this administration, this government, if they have just bulldozed their way through government, taken out a lot of expertise because people don&#8217;t really know what government does or is until it&#8217;s doing something for them or until it&#8217;s not there,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>CNN is far from alone in the attempts to blame the Trump administration for recent crashes — and they&#8217;re only too happy to loop in billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) whenever possible as well, arguing that staffing reductions played a role in the recent tragedies.</p>
<p>Transportation Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-duffy-shreds-pete-buttigieg-over-problems-at-faa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sean Duffy</a>, who was confirmed just a day before the first major crash involving a military helicopter and a commercial plane near Reagan National Airport, has said unequivocally that recent cuts would have had no effect.</p>
<p>&#8220;Here’s the truth: the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees,&#8221; Duffy said. &#8220;Less than 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.&#8221;</p>

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