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. Trumps 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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It reminds me of what the left has been saying about the Southern and Midwestern states for years.
Do I smell a rat? If youre in Baltimore, its a likely yes, says Animal Planet
City named worlds 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
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.
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).
$h!t Hole works too.
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.
Of course Trump should keep his mouth shut so Cummings can continue to berate border agents with no backup from the President
All democrat run cities are rat infested.
The rats can’t help it that they live where people vote for Democrats.
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.
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.
Its 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?
It would be more persuasive if Trump refuted specific false statements of Cummings.
I don’t think most Americans want the President to sound like this.
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Truth is good. Repeat that daily until you understand it.
The hysteria coming from the Dems and Nevertrumpers tells me Trump has it exactly right.
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
They are trying to say because of Fort McHenry you can criticize Baltimore.
That was race-baiting creep John Lewis, not that Cummings isn't just as despicable.
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.
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