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Longtime Baltimore journalist and creator of The Wire called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (pictured) as ‘submoronic’ for suggesting the tragic bridge collapse was ‘intentional.’
David Simon (pictured) responded to a post by the far-right Georgia lawmaker and reiterated that it was ‘port operation’ and ‘bridge maintenance’ that led the Francis Scott Key Bridge to fall after a shipping container crashed into a support structure on Tuesday.
Rep. Greene posted to X, formerly Twitter, calling for a ‘serious investigation’ into the ‘horrifying tragedy.’ ‘Is this an intentional attack or an accident?’ the congresswoman questioned in her post amid questions whether that the bridge collapse was a terrorist attack.
Simon responded with: ‘Are you intentional or just an accident? You complete submoronic pratfall of a human being.’
The man who created Baltimore-based crime drama The Wire took to social media on Tuesday to respond to a series of posts pushing conspiracies that the crash was intentional or an inside job. ‘Moron, port facilities and operations, interstate bridge maintenance etc. have nothing whatsoever to do with Baltimore’s governance but are all state functions,’ he said in one X response. ‘Immediately politicizing this is for empty, fact-free hacks,’ Simon added.
Harrowing footage captured the moment Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after it was struck by a cargo ship – leaving five vehicles submerged in water and six construction workers missing.
Law enforcement said, when asked by media on Tuesday morning, that there was nothing to suggest the collision was intentional.
Maryland authorities are using sonar detection devices to search for the crew members who fell into the 47F water as they were working to repair potholes on the 185-foot bridge when it collapsed.
Governor Wes Moore declared a state of emergency Tuesday morning following the catastrophic collision, which occurred at about 1:30 amm. The ship – the Singaporean-flagged Dali – was 20 minutes into its journey when it slammed into a support column on the bridge.
The Democrat said the ship’s crew managed to issue a Mayday before it crashed into the bridge, which allowed officials to stop cars from going on the bridge. ‘We’re thankful that between the ‘mayday’ and collapse that-that we had officials who were able to-to begin the stop the flow of traffic so more cars were not up on the bridge,’ Moore added.
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