Trump admin taunts left for ‘praying’ for World Cup disaster as DOT touts record numbers
EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is claiming victory over the left after a successful FIFA World Cup tournament that saw record-shattering numbers of fans moving through the U.S.Several million FIFA fans flocked to American stadiums this year, putting an enormous strain on federal, state and local transportation networks. However, aided in part by a more than a $100 million DOT infrastructure investment to World Cup host cities, the tournament went off without any major incidents, prompting Duffy to taunt doomsayers who predicted the country would fall on its face."The Left was praying for an American transit disaster as we hosted the most important international sporting event in modern history," Duffy told Fox News Digital."They were wrong, and President Trump was right."FBI BOSS KASH PATEL DETAILS HOW AGENCY AND PARTNERS SECURED RECORD-SHATTERING FIFA WORLD CUPAmong the naysayers was Sen.
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EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is claiming victory over the left after a successful FIFA World Cup tournament that saw record-shattering numbers of fans moving through the U.S.Several million FIFA fans flocked to American stadiums this year, putting an enormous strain on federal, state and local transportation networks. However, aided in part by a more than a $100 million DOT infrastructure investment to World Cup host cities, the tournament went off without any major incidents, prompting Duffy to taunt doomsayers who predicted the country would fall on its face."The Left was praying for an American transit disaster as we hosted the most important international sporting event in modern history," Duffy told Fox News Digital."They were wrong, and President Trump was right."FBI BOSS KASH PATEL DETAILS HOW AGENCY AND PARTNERS SECURED RECORD-SHATTERING FIFA WORLD CUPAmong the naysayers was Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., who in April accused the Trump administration of endangering FIFA fans by "systematically dismantling security agencies, delaying critical security assistance, and initiating a war with Iran." All this, Gallego said, made the country’s top security agency, the Department of Homeland Security, "woefully unprepared to accomplish its mission."Gallego remarked that "if state and local officials do not trust that federal employees will coordinate in lockstep and operate as partners, they will be unable to protect their communities—increasing threat risk and compromising Americans’ safety in the process." He added that "this self-imposed chaos extends to the Trump administration’s management of federal departments and agencies."Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took a similar tone, asserting ahead of the tournament that "Trump cares more about being on international TV at midfield on match day than actually hosting successful games."In May, The Atlantic published a piece titled "Another Way America Will Choke at the World Cup," in which the author predicted that "in the coming months, America’s patchwork railway system will be similarly challenged—and its weaknesses exposed—across all 11 U.S. sites of World Cup matches."Nathaniel Sizemore, a spokesperson for the agency, told Fox News Digital that it was "the Left’s TDS [Trump derangement syndrome]" that "put them in the absurd position of praying for an American transit disaster."PRESIDENT TRUMP STEALS PART OF SPOTLIGHT AS SPAIN CELEBRATES WORLD CUP TITLE OVER ARGENTINAHowever, with the World Cup officially concluded, the results are in and, according to DOT, they are conclusive.
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- EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is claiming victory over the left after a successful FIFA World Cup tournament that saw record-shattering numbers of fans moving through the U.S.Several million FIFA fans flocked to American stadiums this year, putting an enormous strain on federal, state and local transportation networks. However, aided in part by a more than a $100 million DOT infrastructure investment to World Cup host cities, the tournament went off without any major incidents, prompting Duffy to taunt doomsayers who predicted the country would fall on its face."The Left was praying for an American transit disaster as we hosted the most important international sporting event in modern history," Duffy told Fox News Digital."They were wrong, and President Trump was right."FBI BOSS KASH PATEL DETAILS HOW AGENCY AND PARTNERS SECURED RECORD-SHATTERING FIFA WORLD CUPAmong the naysayers was Sen.
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