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Trump Assails Elijah Cummings, Calling His Congressional District a Rat-Infested ‘Mess’
New York Times ^ | July 27, 2019 | Peter Baker

Posted on 07/27/2019 2:26:22 PM PDT by reaganaut1

WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out at a leading African-American congressman on Saturday, calling him “a brutal bully” who represents a Baltimore-based district that has become a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”

Mr. Trump’s attack on Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland and leading critic of the president, parroted a segment that aired earlier in the morning on “Fox & Friends.” The president suggested that the congressman was a hypocrite for criticizing conditions in migrant detention centers at the southwestern border when his own district is blighted. Mr. Trump also made a vague and unsubstantiated insinuation of corruption.

“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous,” Mr. Trump wrote. “His district is considered the Worst in the USA.” He went on: “Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.”

Mr. Cummings responded on Twitter shortly afterward, saying that he was a vigorous advocate for his district. “Mr. President, I go home to my district daily,” he wrote. “Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.”

The congressman pointed to a hearing that he held on Friday on his effort to legislate lower drug prices, which would help his Baltimore constituents.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: New York
KEYWORDS: baltimore; cummings; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; elijahcummings; infestation; maryland; mayarockeymoore; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; peterbaker; presstitutes; rat; rats; smearmachine; trump
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I don't think most Americans want the President to sound like this. Whether conditions at migrant detention centers are humane is independent of whether Baltimore is a nice place to live.
1 posted on 07/27/2019 2:26:22 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Yeah, it's just terrible what Trump said about Baltimore.

It reminds me of what the left has been saying about the Southern and Midwestern states for years.

2 posted on 07/27/2019 2:28:11 PM PDT by guitar Josh
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Do I smell a rat? If you’re in Baltimore, it’s a likely yes, says Animal Planet
City named world’s 3rd most rat-plagued place
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2014/07/04/do-i-smell-a-rat-if-youre-in-baltimore-its-a-likely-yes-says-animal-planet


3 posted on 07/27/2019 2:28:39 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: reaganaut1

Trump has changed the expected political discourse completely. It has become pugilistic. The statesmanlike posture of prior presidents has been relegated to history. This is the Trump era.


4 posted on 07/27/2019 2:29:30 PM PDT by nwrep
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I don't think most Americans want the President to sound like this.

There was a time I would agree with you, but that was back when I was supporting Ted Cruz in the primaries, little knowing how anyone but a bare knuckles brawler would have a chance against the rats for presidency. This is a re-run of the "subliminable" scandal in W's campaign, only this guy fights, and rarely picks fights (at least I can't recall him ever going street on someone just for the heck of it).

5 posted on 07/27/2019 2:30:59 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: reaganaut1

“$h!t Hole” works too.


6 posted on 07/27/2019 2:31:00 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Somehow, Trump’s TRUTHS always seem to shock libeal newstrash.

We know they know the Trumpster is correct.

What really pisses them off is the fact that the people of those sh*tholes know he’s correct also.


7 posted on 07/27/2019 2:31:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
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Of course Trump should keep his mouth shut so Cummings can continue to berate border agents with no backup from the President


8 posted on 07/27/2019 2:31:39 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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All democrat run cities are rat infested.


9 posted on 07/27/2019 2:31:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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The rats can’t help it that they live where people vote for Democrats.


10 posted on 07/27/2019 2:32:00 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Funny how the left can say anything they like and if you condemn it your a racist.

God Bless President Trump. Say what you need to boss.


11 posted on 07/27/2019 2:32:51 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Elijah Cummings is the creep who tried to frame the tea patty for using a racial epithet beginning with the letter n at an anti-Obamacare rally all the way back in 2010. Fortunately Andrew Breitbart revealed the con job and it was shown that Cummings had lied about the whole thing.

Flash forward to last week when he called the President of the US a racist.

It’s one phony race baiting scam after another from this scum bag.

Meanwhile Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in the world as measured by homicides. And Cummings is ok with that?


12 posted on 07/27/2019 2:35:30 PM PDT by AC86UT89
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Of course Trump should keep his mouth shut so Cummings can continue to berate border agents with no backup from the President

It would be more persuasive if Trump refuted specific false statements of Cummings.

13 posted on 07/27/2019 2:36:48 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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I don’t think most Americans want the President to sound like this.

Truth is good. Repeat that daily until you understand it.


14 posted on 07/27/2019 2:37:39 PM PDT by Pravious
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“The Pied Piper” - Crispian St. Peters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HEkJ3yVvJo


15 posted on 07/27/2019 2:38:33 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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The hysteria coming from the Dems and Nevertrumpers tells me Trump has it exactly right.


16 posted on 07/27/2019 2:39:01 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: reaganaut1

assails

calls out

whatever

poor elijah DANCES for his white dem leaders to stay out of jail

what a dem house n this guy is


17 posted on 07/27/2019 2:39:03 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Vaquero

They are trying to say because of Fort McHenry you can criticize Baltimore.


18 posted on 07/27/2019 2:41:01 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: AC86UT89
Elijah Cummings is the creep who tried to frame the tea patty for using a racial epithet beginning with the letter n at an anti-Obamacare rally all the way back in 2010. Fortunately Andrew Breitbart revealed the con job and it was shown that Cummings had lied about the whole thing.

That was race-baiting creep John Lewis, not that Cummings isn't just as despicable.

19 posted on 07/27/2019 2:41:12 PM PDT by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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All the Democrats have is calling Trump a raciest. I hope the minority community sees that Trump is calling out those that hold them down.

Trump wins this argument and picks up more minority support.


20 posted on 07/27/2019 2:41:30 PM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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