Washington DC plane crash live updates: Donald Trump says cause of Washington DC air crash that left 67 dead is unknown

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White Home

Picture supply, Bernd Debusmann Jr/BBC Information

We’re listening to extra from Donald Trump, who has chosen to deal with the media straight throughout the first main home accident and disaster of his administration – which is now solely in its tenth day.

Flanked by Vice President JD Vance, defence secretary Pete Hegseth and transportation secretary Sean Duffy, Trump started the information convention with a second of silence for what he termed a “second of anguish” earlier than studying a press release from the rostrum.

“We’re a rustic, actually, in mourning,” he says. “This has actually shaken lots of people.”

It is uncommon to see Trump categorical a lot emotion, however the starting of his feedback right this moment had been starkly completely different, along with his message right this moment that “we’re all one household”.

He says he has “concepts” and theories about what occurred, though he has acknowledged that the investigation remains to be in its early days.

Trump additionally took a swipe at his political foes, this time at Barack Obama for allegedly hiring “mediocre” workers for air visitors management jobs that require “superior intelligence”.

Biden, he says, modified them again – placing “politics at a stage that no one has ever seen”.