Trump Will Be In East Palestine OH Today....And Biden Hasn't Bothered To Help Them One Bit

[Delldude]

'He should be embarrassed': Trump haunted by his own rail safety failings as he heads to East Palestine​

Story by Sky Palma • 8h ago

Former President Donald Trump is visiting the Ohio town that was the site of a train derailment that released toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment.


According to Bloomberg, the trip is part of a strategy to capitalize on criticism of President Biden's choice to visit Ukraine before visiting the disaster area. But it's also unintentionally highlighting Trump's own failings when it came to rail safety during his presidency.

On Feb. 3, a Norfolk Southern Corp. train derailed and spewed hazardous chemicals into the air and ground surrounding East Palestine, Ohio, which has around 4,700 residents.
Trump's visit is casting renewed attention on his regulatory rollbacks on new braking requirements for certain trains carrying hazardous materials that were established by the Obama administration. If the Obama-era rules were allowed to stand, the Norfolk Southern train would likely have been equipped with brakes known as Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brakes.

From Bloomberg: "The braking requirement, put in place in 2015 as part of a suite of new safety rules following a number of fiery high-profile crude oil train derailments, required railroads to install more responsive electronic braking systems on trains carrying hazardous materials. The requirement would have replaced what the head of the Federal."

“[Trump] should be embarrassed,” said Cynthia Quarterman, a former Obama official who played a major role in crafting train safety requirements.

“Regulations force people to advance technology,” she told Bloomberg, adding the brakes could have averted the disaster.

All this influence gives perhaps a bit more color to the government’s eagerness in December to impose a contract onto striking rail workers, whose demands included both necessary benefits for themselves and also prescient safety standards that would make trains safer for the public.

The Trump administration rolling back Obama-era regulations, and the Biden administration still not reinstating them, are pages of a larger story of a nation wedded to capital.

 

[mudwhistle]

 

[mudwhistle]

Good one. But of course i have potable water. How about Ohio MAGAs?

Yep...Trump brought in truckloads of it at his own personal expense.
No thanks to FJB.

 

[JoeC]

During his speech, Trump—considered a leading GOP presidential candidate for 2024 despite spearheading a deadly coup attempt following his 2020 loss—criticized how President Joe Biden's administration has responded to the environmental and public health disaster unfolding in East Palestine, a poor rural town of about 4,700 people located a few miles west of the Pennsylvania border.

But as critics noted beforehand, the Trump administration's gutting of train safety rules at the behest of railroad industry lobbyists was instrumental in creating the conditions for the derailment and ensuing chemical spill and burn off, which has provoked fears of groundwater contamination and air pollution.


"Trump had been in office for less than a year when he moved to kill the 2015 rule change initiated by the Obama administration that would have required freight trains to upgrade the current braking technology that was developed in the 19th century for state-of-the-art electronic systems," wrote Bunch, who pointed out that this came after Norfolk Southern and other rail carriers donated more than $6 million to Republican candidates in 2016 and spent millions more on lobbying.

"The rule reversal wasn't the only time that Team Trump sided with Big Rail over the forgotten Americans who live on the wrong side of their tracks," he added. "In 2019, for example, the Trump administration moved to not strengthen but relax regulations on shipping fracked natural gas through communities like East Palestine. The same year, Trump's White House also killed an Obama-era proposal that would have required two crew members in freight-train locomotives."

"The Trump approach to the rail industry was to let the companies do what they wanted, which was to avoid regulations, slash jobs, and extract profit."

Another damned lie

 

[Foxfyre]

What caused it isn't the issue.
What Biden's response was (or lack of) is the issue.

True. But Buttigieg has made a point to say it never would have happened except for Trump. Which remark is unjustified on the face of it. I suppose to him it is sufficient reason for him or Biden or any other high ranking administration official not actually showing up there. But then there is a definite disconnect between this current administration and the people they were elected to serve.

President Trump never lost sight of what he was elected to do and he never failed to do what he could when federal help was warranted/needed/asked for.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

That must be why Biden or Cameltoa haven't showed up yet either.

Showing up for a photo shoot and actually doing something are 2 different things. Trump showing up shows you there is no more chemicals in the air, because if it was he wouldn't be there.

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Deploys Additional Federal Resources to East Palestine, Ohio | The White House

The Biden-Harris Administration has mobilized a robust, multi-agency effort to support the people of East Palestine, Ohio. Within hours of the Norfolk Southern train derailment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deployed a team to East Palestine to support state and local emergency and...

www.whitehouse.gov

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Showing up for a photo shoot and actually doing something are 2 different things. Trump showing up shows you there is no more chemicals in the air, because if it was he wouldn't be there.

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Deploys Additional Federal Resources to East Palestine, Ohio | The White House

The Biden-Harris Administration has mobilized a robust, multi-agency effort to support the people of East Palestine, Ohio. Within hours of the Norfolk Southern train derailment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deployed a team to East Palestine to support state and local emergency and...

www.whitehouse.gov

But he brought plenty of water because he wasn't going to drink that stuff.

 

[dudmuck]

 

[Delldude]

Biden rescinded most of Trumps policies, why did he forget about this important one?

NTSB preliminary findings to be released today.....wheel bearings caused cars to derail, not brakes.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Unless you have a crystal ball, nobody can tell when an accident is going to happen. It's what takes place after one does that matters. If Trump were still our President, he wouldn't be running around the world promising other countries we will go further into debt by giving them money. He'd be here personally addressing the problem and trying to help OUR people as best as the federal government could.

Actually he would probably be on the golf course in Florida

 

[Blaster]

Citizens cheering for Trump in Ohio as senile Joe falls down again boarding an Airplane in Poland.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Biden rescinded most of Trumps policies, why did he forget about this important one?

NTSB preliminary findings to be released today.....wheel bearings caused cars to derail, not brakes.

The left will really be sitting here with egg on their face if that's the determination. No matter what happens, the theme of the left these last two years has been "IT'S NOT BIDEN'S FAULT!" Two years and still, nothing is his fault.

Afghanistan wasn't his fault, it was Trump's fault.
Gasoline and fuel prices were not his fault, that was Trump's fault too.
Inflation was not his fault, it's the worlds fault.
The labor shortage was not Biden's fault, that too is the worlds fault.
Balloon gate was not Biden's fault, that was Trump's fault.
Draining our strategic reserves to dangerous 40 year low levels was not his fault, it's OPEC's fault.
Our border crisis was not Biden's fault, that was Trump's fault.
The Palestine train wreck was not his fault, that is Trumps fault.

I never seen an administration in my life where nothing is their fault.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Citizens cheering for Trump in Ohio as senile Joe falls down again boarding an Airplane in Poland.

That's not his fault either. He doesn't know how to read Polish.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Actually he would probably be on the golf course in Florida

He wasn't yesterday. Dementia is still in Europe.

 

[dudmuck]

Biden rescinded most of Trumps policies, why did he forget about this important one?

NTSB preliminary findings to be released today.....wheel bearings caused cars to derail, not brakes.

the obama regulation on train brakes didnt apply to the cargo type of this accident. The better brakes wouldnt have the prevented accident, but it would be less severe due to less stopping distance.

 

[Ordinary Guy]

Biden doesn't realize this was in Ohio, that motherfucker still can't match his sock in the morning. Jill is just his caretaker

 

[Blaster]

Biden doesn't realize this was in Ohio, that motherfucker still can't match his sock in the morning. Jill is just his caretaker

Secret Service agents are concerned about Biden tripping and falling.

 

[mudwhistle]

At least he went to East Palestine Oh.
Where's Biden?

Who was it that said 70% of problems can be better addressed when you show up.

 

[mudwhistle]

Mudwhistle for Minister of Transportation.

You do know how to repeat everything said on Fox, OAN and Newsmax.

You will be perfect for the job.

Plus, you swear like a drunken sailor.


Totally perfect.

Fuck Fox. I don't watch OAN and barely watch any Newsmax.
Most of what I get comes from what I read.
I don't like having my news spoon fed to me smothered in commercials every 5 mins.