Black Caucus chair accuses Trump of 'purge' of 'minority' federal workers

Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke has accused President Donald Trump of trying to "purge" non-White workers from the national government.

"Our republic’s president, Donald Trump, chose to code a federation successful mourning with lone fabrication and White supremacist ideologies," Clarke said during a Friday property league successful Brooklyn, New York.

"Yesterday, helium spun that fabrication for 1 crushed and 1 crushed alone, and that is to further his administration's purge of America's number employees."

Her comments are successful effect to Trump’s property league connected the deadly midair collision successful Washington, D.C. this week. A Black Hawk subject chopper crashed into an American Eagle rider level that was moments distant from landing, apt sidesplitting each 67 radical aboard some aircraft.

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Trump speculated whether diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts played a relation successful the calamity during a property league Thursday, though some helium and different officials support the origin is not yet clear.

"It conscionable could person been," Trump said erstwhile asked if helium believed the clang was caused by diverseness hiring. "We’ve had a overmuch higher modular than anybody else. And determination are things wherever you person to spell by brainpower. You person to spell by intelligence quality, and intelligence prime is simply a precise important constituent of it. These are various, precise almighty tests that we enactment to use. And they were terminated by Biden."

He claimed erstwhile President Joe Biden "went by a standard that seeks the nonstop opposite."

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"But certainly, for an aerial postulation controller, we privation the brightest, the smartest, the sharpest. We privation idiosyncratic that’s psychologically superior. And that’s what we’re going to have," Trump said.

Investigations into the collision are inactive ongoing, and determination presently is nary grounds that points to DEI oregon different circumstantial causes.

Though Trump did not notation contention during his property conference, Clarke claimed Trump’s remarks were grounds of a "racist" agenda.

"We hold for the implicit information of the matter. It is with large and righteous indignation that I admit the comments and actions of 1 idiosyncratic successful particular, who did not effort whatsoever to hold for those facts," Clarke said. 

"The idiosyncratic who, alternatively than empathize with the families of the 67 victims of this heartbreaking disaster, effort to unify a grieving country, oregon adjacent connection his prayers, chose to capitalize connected this calamity by furthering his racist, insane docket against America's divers employees."

She aboriginal said, "He volition proceed with the vilification and demonization, helium volition proceed with this madness, until our republic is arsenic White and arsenic antheral arsenic this medication tin crook and interruption the instrumentality to marque it."

Democrats person hammered Trump for tying the collision to DEI policies nether the past administration. 

Meanwhile, determination are voices connected the near pushing blasted connected Trump's purpose to slash the national workforce and different Republican policies.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for remark connected Clarke's remarks.