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Maria Bartiromo embarrasses herself again by blaming Biden for Army helicopter crash that killed 5 [1]
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Date: 2023-11-13
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said: “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can't Swim.’” That’s how it’s been with President Joe Biden and his detractors on Fox News. These hatemongers will find any reason to criticize or insult Biden, regardless of the validity.
Maria Bartiromo has embarrassed herself time and time again as a host on Fox News and Fox Business. On Nov, 8, 2020, a day after major news outlets had declared Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election, Bartiromo aired a softball interview with lawyer Sidney Powell, who expressed baseless and outlandish claims of election fraud. Bartiromo figured prominently in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit that resulted in Fox agreeing to a $787.5 settlement to avoid going to trial.
But Bartiromo, who was largely nonpolitical when she earned the nickname the “Money Honey” as a host on CNBC, apparently did not learn any lesson from the Dominion lawsuit. On Monday, she insinuated that Biden was somehow to blame for last Friday’s helicopter crash in the eastern Mediterranean that killed five members of the U.S. Army Special Operations forces.
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x Maria Bartiromo tries to blame a helicopter crash that killed 5 US service members on (you guessed it) Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/hDqytEwtuD — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 13, 2023
Bartiromo told her guest, Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, a U.S. Army veteran who was wounded by an I.E.D. in Afghanistan and who thought it tasteful to wear his IDF uniform to a House Republican meeting, that she found the Black Hawk helicopter crash quite “disturbing.”
She then posed the following loaded question to Mast:
“The military says that this tragedy was caused by a mishap during a training exercise and landed into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Congressman. Do you know about this mishap that killed our servicemen over the weekend? And how much of these issues in terms of the aggression that we’re seeing from all of these adversaries have to do with Joe Biden’s failed foreign policy? The fact that he botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan and triggered our adversaries to get on the march.”
Mast then replied: “All of it has to do with Joe Biden’s failed foreign policy and his domestic policy.”
U.S. European Command said Friday’s accident occurred during a routine air refueling mission and is currently under investigation, CNN reported:
The special operations forces were in the region as part of the military’s broader contingency planning around the war between Israel and Hamas, should an evacuation of US citizens from the region be ordered, for example, according to two US officials.
The regiment’s commander, Col. Roger P. Waleski Jr., said the five soldiers were “truly SOF professionals and are among the nation’s finest soldiers. Their loss has left an indelible void within this Regiment that will never be filled.”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in a statement issued Sunday, said the crash was “another stark reminder that the brave men and women who defend our great nation put their lives on the line each and every day to keep our country safe. They represent the best of America,” Austin said.
The New York Times reported that the SOF troops were flying on an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed off the coast of Cyprus, citing three U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details. The newspaper added that the Pentagon has quietly dispatched commando teams from the Joint Special Operations Command, including the Army’s Delta Force and the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, in case they are needed to help evacuate American citizens from the region. The Times added:
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