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Fox News anchor Bret Baier mentioned the political attacks being leveled against Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg amid an ongoing environmental crisis in East Palestine, Ohio following a catastrophic train derailment in the area.
“There is this political moment and there is a lot of criticism of the Transportation Secretary,” Baier said, pointing to an article in Politico which reported Buttigieg will visit the area on Thursday and pointed out, ‘It is exceedingly rare for a transportation secretary to visit the site of a train derailment, especially one that resulted in no fatalities.’”
Bair said that framing was “fair” and “accurate.”
“There were train derailments in the Trump administration that actually had fatalities that didn’t have a visit by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao,” the anchor said.
