Baltimore paper blasts Trump after his attacks on city: 'Better to have a few rats than to be one'
The Baltimore Sun editorial board lit up President Trump Saturday night for his Twitter tirade against their city and Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful Democrat who represents Maryland’s Seventh District.
Cummings, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, has over the last two weeks has both authorized subpoenas for senior White House staffers’ communications and ripped into acting Homeland Security chief Kevin McAleenan over the conditions of the government camps for migrants at the border.
Trump responded Saturday morning shortly after a Fox News segment showed piles of trash in Baltimore, “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. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,” adding, “Cumming [sic] 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.”
Baltimore officials and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Maryland native, rebuked the president’s comments about the district where 55 percent of residents are African-American before the Sun criticized Trump at length.
“It’s not hard to see what’s going on here,” wrote the paper. “The congressman has been a thorn in this president’s 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 don’t to scream.”
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