The Washington Post is pushing back at the widely-used claim by liberals that Trump-era policies rolling back safety protocols were responsible for the disastrous train derailment in Ohio earlier this month.
In a report published Monday, Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler did a deep dive on “every possible regulatory change” made during the Trump presidency that could have resulted in the toxic spills that have plagued the rural town of East Palestine.
“From our analysis, none of the regulatory changes made during the Trump administration at this point can be cited as contributing to the accident,” Kessler wrote.