Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took aim at Republicans who have criticized him for his handling of the Ohio train derailment and its aftermath, calling them out for what he sees as hypocrisy.
"It’s really rich to see some of these folks, the former president, these Fox hosts, who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country," Buttigieg, a former Indiana city mayor, told CNN.
Trump, who rejected those claims, won Columbiana County, where East Palestine is located, with more than 70% of the vote in the 2020 general election, and, while visiting the village, heartily attacked President Joe Biden for traveling to Ukraine and Poland before visiting the East Palestine community.
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