Posted on 07/30/2019 11:50:55 AM PDT by SMGFan
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Monday night defended President Trump's scathing comments about Baltimore, where Carson worked for years as a neurosurgeon.
Carson, the only black member of Trump's Cabinet, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that while at Johns Hopkins Hospital he would sometimes find ways to keep young patients for an extra day or two to keep them from returning to squalid conditions.
"As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I spent many hours, sometimes operating all night long, trying to give children of Baltimore and other places around the world a second chance at life. And usually we were successful,” Carson said.
“But a few days later, I was in a horrible dilemma, because some of those kids had to go back into homes in East Baltimore that were infested with rats and roaches and ticks and mold and lead and violence,” he added.
Trump spent much of the last few days degrading Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who represents parts of the city. Over the weekend, he described Baltimore as a "very dangerous & filthy place" where "no human being would want to live."
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Wonder who the absentee landlords are, any ideas?
They are saying it is Kushner in some cases.
Democrats: filling the vacuum of failed Republican responsibility for decades.
I asked that question last night and was told the city owns them.
If you don’t first exterminate the rats and other vermin, they’ll just move into other areas, and eventually return and infest the upgraded housing.
May God keep blessing Dr. Ben Carson...
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