Blame Trump for the train crash!

By now everyone from Charles Schumer on down has climbed on the public bandwagon to condemn the Trump administration for helping cause the major train wreck in Ohio a few weeks ago.

In 2017, “the Trump administration repealed requirements for an electronic braking system because, according to them, the safety benefits were not worth the cost,” Schumer told the chamber. “I think the people of East Palestine now know that analysis was wrong and that they’re suffering the consequences of rail companies putting profits over people.” National Review via Yahoo

“To be clear about how Trump is to blame, or at least partially to blame, for what happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation under Donald Trump … back in December 2017 … announced intent to repeal electronically controlled pneumatic brake mandate,” Doel said. Factcheck

David Doel is a Canadian news commenter. Or then there’s Brian Taylor Cohen, a liberal commentator, who is quoted in the same article:

“Legislation was passed under President Obama that made it a legal requirement for trains carrying hazardous flammable materials to have ECP brakes, but this was rescinded in 2017 by the Trump administration.”

Now the whole thing is about whether Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brake (ECP) systems need to be on all the tank cars of  trains carrying Class 3 hazardous material. Obama’s folks mandated it, Trump’s folks said the benefits were outweighed by the high costs of outfitting every tank car with them.

REGARDLESS: The regulation everyone is trying to club Trump with applied to “High Hazard Flammable Trains.” The train in Ohio only had three hazardous-material flagged tank cars and was classified as a “Mixed Freight Train” and the reg would not have applied to it even if still in force. Jennifer Homendy, the head of NTSB, stated categorically:

“Some are saying the ECP (electronically controlled pneumatic) brake rule, if implemented, would’ve prevented this derailment. FALSE,” she wrote. “The ECP braking rule would’ve applied ONLY to HIGH HAZARD FLAMMABLE TRAINS. The train that derailed in East Palestine was a MIXED FREIGHT TRAIN containing only 3 placarded Class 3 flammable liquids cars.”

“This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes,” Homendy said.  Factcheck

Chucky, Chucky, you LSOS…  You would think that lying about things like this would expose the weakness in their positions on this, guns, police defunding, no-cash bails, almost anything. But the mass media prints this sort of thing as truth, and We The People are all too willing to believe what we read or hear first.

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