Trump: Billions of dollars given to Baltimore "stolen or wasted. Ask Elijah Cummings where it went."

[highplainsdem]

Can't believe how low this SOB is going...

Link to tweet

Baltimore’s numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy. Billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years, but to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted. Ask Elijah Cummings where it went. He should investigate himself with his Oversight Committee!

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Editing to add that I just learned via Twitter that Trump sent out Lynne Patton earlier this evening to appear on Fox News to talk about billions in federal grants to Baltimore and suggest the money went to "deep pocket crooked politicians."

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Sure tell who is writting those Tweets.

Hannity,and Carlson. Murdoch needs to be stripped of his Broadcast License.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Somebody's skeered.

[donkeypoofed]

3. Hope you all realize that means HE'S been stealing Gov't money!!

Confessing or Projecting is all he ever does. He's projecting his crime onto Cummings.

Spanky has made millions off his stolen job. Betcha all that private prison money makes him really happy!

[highplainsdem]

5. I think that when we finally get him out of the White House, we'll dscover that he and

his crime family have stolen everything they can.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. Whenever trumpie makes these claims,

he should be held to account for his comments. Show facts to back up his remarks.

This entire tweet of his is a lie. None of it is true.

But, by casting Rep. Cummings as somehow responsible for the fiscal management of a city or a state, is nonsense. Saying that "the money was stolen or wasted" should require some factual back-up. He's implying that Cummings has stolen funds and that should not be tolerated.

[gratuitous]

6. Hey Donald, I found where the money went

Seems the Republican governor of Maryland diverted a whole lot of state money that was supposed to be spent on Baltimore:

The Baltimore Sun has it here.

Hogan shifts money to roads, but not everyone's a winner

In shifting Maryland's transportation priorities from transit projects to roads, the Republican made clear that as long as he is governor, asphalt will flow freely.

But not necessarily evenly.

The list of major new projects that Hogan funded includes big-ticket highway improvements for rural Maryland, from Garrett County in the west to the Eastern Shore. There are projects costing $100 million or more in Prince George's, Montgomery and Frederick counties. In Baltimore City? Nothing. In Baltimore County? Less than 1 percent of spending for new projects.

"It does appear that a lot of this is not in the Baltimore area. That's pretty striking," said Andrew Farkas, director of the National Transportation Center at Morgan State University.

"Striking" is a nice way of putting this diversion of funds from black majority areas to white majority areas.

[lunatica]

7. If you know so damn much why don't YOU tell us, asshole?!

You’re the so-called president. You know so much.

What are you doing about it?!

[procon]

8. Ignorant buffoon.

Trump doesn't even understand that state governments and city governments are different than the federal government, and each have their own elected representatives.

Trump thinks Cummings can show up at Baltimore City Hall and appropriate monies from the local Treasury for some nepharious plots. The man is a drooling idiot!

He's been in the Oval Office for 2 1/2 years and be still can't understand how government works. Definately not smarter than a 5th grader.

[UniteFightBack]

9. He don't do like YOU DO the corrupt and morally bankrupt dotard rump. nt