Pelosi slams Trump's 'racist attacks' on Cummings

[highplainsdem]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/455013-pelosi-slams-trumps-racist-attacks-on-cummings

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) denounced President Trump's early morning criticism of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Saturday, labeling the president's remarks "racist" and hailing the longtime congressman as a "champion" and "beloved leader."

".@RepCummings is a champion in the Congress and the country for civil rights and economic justice, a beloved leader in Baltimore, and deeply valued colleague," Pelosi tweeted. "We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership."

Pelosi's condemnation came in response to a series of tweets in which Trump accused Cummings of being a "brutal bully" and claimed his Baltimore district was “FAR WORSE” and "more dangerous" than the southern border.

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Cummings’s district is the second-most wealthy and educated of Maryland's majority-black districts. The attack from Trump followed statements by Cummings in which he called the treatment of migrant children in U.S. facilities “government-sponsored child abuse.”

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Link to tweet

[Laurian]

1. I really need for that asshole to STFU.

I’m sick to death of his nasty tweets.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

19. I really need for that asshole to

drop the fuck dead !

[Iliyah]

2. It is beyond the time for shithole to be gone . . .

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. NONE of the Trumplicans in the House will defend Cummings.....

They are afraid of the orange pile of shit, so they agree with him for now as Trump comtinues attacks on Democratic House members.

THEY are all up for re-election in 2020. Rest assured Democrats will bring up character points to voters.

[Iliyah]

5. t-rump is repeating what Hilter said about the Jews. . .

The Jewish Americans must be thinking "oh no, not again".

[Stuart G]

4. Just imagine, Trump calling someone, "..a brutal bully" Please think about that for awhile

I doubt I have ever read something this ridiculous.................
...................Like George Wallace calling someone a racist.
...................Like Donald Trump calling someone a racist.
...................Like Jared Trump calling someone dishonest.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Exactly!

And I didn't even have to think about it!

Projection, always!

[Demovictory9]

10. i know...

[RockRaven]

6. It wasn't just a racist attack *on Cummings*, but on his *district* and *constituents*

The media is letting Trump off the hook, whether incidentally or purposely, by characterizing this as an attack on Cummings in their headlines and soundbites.

Trump is attacking, in an overtly racist way, the people Cummings represents. He's doing it knowingly and purposely, and the media is carrying water for Trump in the way they cover these comments.

[Poiuyt]

7. It wasn't just a racist attack

It was an attack by a racist.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Genocidal playbook: "no human being", he tweeted. So he thinks Cummings & PoC are SUBHUMAN. . . nt

[Caliman73]

22. Absolutely!

The first step in maltreatment and eventual genocide is to dehumanize the target. People will not typically carry out violence unless they see the targets as less than human.

That is why enemy combatants have historically been given dehumanizing nicknames like "the Hun" or "Japs", or "Gooks" or "Rag Heads" & "Hajis".

Why the Hutu leadership started calling the Tutsi's "Cockroaches" prior to the Rowandan Genocide. Obviously why the Nazis made all of those disgusting caricatures of Jewish people and as Trump did today with Black people, linked them with vermin and infestation.

Trump is deliberately dehumanizing people of color and women.

[ehrnst]

9. Indeed. (nt)

[NBachers]

11. The first step of elimination is dehumanization.

Once the target population has been dehumanized as rodents, insects, and infestations, then the process of wholesale elimination can be addressed up-front and more efficiently. The current methods of neglect, abuse, drug & weapon flooding, and economic terrorism aren't reaching their peak goals quickly enough.

[democrank]

12. Trump is smaller than the tiniest grain of sand on

a beach that isn’t really there.

[Willie Wunderlich]

14. TRUMP HAS A POINT !

Why has Trump been relentlessly attacking minorities?!

Perhaps Trump has a point.

[EveHammond13]

15. trump's ongoing racist anus-mouth is an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE

[yaesu]

16. Do another censure, defund his favorite projects, quit working with the fascist but simply slamming

tRump just emboldens him.

[world wide wally]

17. Dear God,

Make him die.


(That is all)

[DFW]

18. I wonder what Larry Hogan will say about this

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Assuming he will say anything at all. He IS a Republican, after all.

[Cha]

21. Good question.. he should be asked

if he doesn't volunteer.

[DFW]

23. It is about time

So-called „moderate“ Republicans need to take a stand and say, like Bill Weld, my party‘s president is an incompetent, boorish asshole, or else admit that they belong to a party that no longer has their support.

[Cha]

24. Exactly!

[Cha]

20. Thank You, highplainsdem..

and Thank You, Nancy Pelosi!