Baltimore Sun Editorial Board: Better to have a few rats than to be one
In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Marylands 7th congressional district on Saturday morning. Here are the key phrases: no human being would want to live there, it is a very dangerous & filthy place, Worst in the USA and, our personal favorite: It is a rat and rodent infested mess.
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Its not hard to see whats going on here. The congressman has been a thorn in this presidents side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who dont to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make a point that the border camps are clean, efficient & well run," which, of course, they are not unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Securitys own inspector-general recently called a ticking time bomb."
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This is a president who will happily debase himself at the slightest provocation. And given Mr. Cummings criticisms of U.S. border policy, the various investigations he has launched as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, his willingness to call Mr. Trump a racist for his recent attacks on the freshmen congresswomen, and the fact that Fox & Friends had recently aired a segment critical of the city, slamming Baltimore must have been irresistible in a Pavlovian way. Fox News rang the bell, the president salivated and his thumbs moved across his cell phone into action.
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Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressmans name correctly (its Cummings, not Cumming) we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of womens private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are good people among murderous neo-Nazis that hes still not fooling most Americans into believing hes even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity.
Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0728-trump-baltimore-20190727-k6ac4yvnpvcczlaexdfglifada-story.html