Here’s What You Missed on Twitter This Week, Vol. 6

Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg finally made his way to East Palestine, Ohio.https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-administration-lands-on-strategy-for-train-fiasco-finger-pointing/”>complained About Donald Trump. And President Joe Biden failed upward—literally—during his trip to Ukraine and Poland. 

Here are the top Twitter stories from this week

1. Buttigieg was delayed for three weeks before he reached East Palestine. Buttigieg claims that the administration has been there since then.

The Biden administration insists they’ve been there since the East Palestine toxic train derailment. This despite the fact that the president has yet to visit the village and Buttigieg did not make an appearance for three consecutive weeks.

“That’s why we’ve been here from the first hours of the incident, as an administration,” Responding to a reporter’s question about whether East Palestine would be secure, Buttigieg stated that “when all the news crews’ cameras have gone and the politicians have left.”

“That’s why our interest, both in what happened here in East Palestine and in keeping our railroads safe, doesn’t go away when some other hot news story comes into the headlines.”

Pete Buttigieg speaking in East Palestine: “We’ve been here from the first hours of the incident, as an administration.” pic.twitter.com/fJjxn17Qhc

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) February 23, 2023

2. Buttigieg did finally make it to East Palestine …

His explanation for his absence was not convincing. One reporter asked the transportation secretary if it was an accident during a press conference. “mistake” Do not visit the site of the toxic train accident sooner. 

“What I tried to do was balance two things—my desire to be involved and engaged and on the ground, which is how I am generally wired to act, and my desire to follow the norm of transportation secretaries,” Buttigieg stated this to reporters. 

He stated the following: “norm” was to allow the National Transportation Safety Board “lead the initial stages of the public facing work.”

Reporter: “Was it a mistake not to come here sooner?”

Buttigieg: “What I tried to do was balance two things—my desire to be involved and engaged and on the ground, which is how I am generally wired to act, and my desire to follow the norm of transportation secretaries.” pic.twitter.com/gQppzu3LbZ

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) February 23, 2023

3. … but Biden did not. 

Karine Jean Pierre, White House press secretary, insisted that East Palestine residents should feel secure “at ease” Biden has taken responsibility for the train derailment “very seriously.” 

Reporters are pressed in the briefing area