How Trump seized on a Fux Noise broadcast to go after Cummings
Trump was already seething about Rep. Elijah E. Cummings.
He was frustrated that the oversight committee Cummings (D-Md.) chairs authorized a subpoena last week that could sweep up emails from his daughter and son-in-law. He was annoyed that Cummings stood alongside Democratic leaders discussing the possibility of impeachment following testimony by the former special counsel.
And he was particularly incensed when the longtime Democratic lawmaker lambasted Trump’s acting head of Homeland Security over reports from the border of “a child is sitting in their own feces, can’t take a shower.”
“None of us would have our children in that position,” Cummings said during a hearing earlier this month. “They are human beings.”
Trump, one senior White House official said, “was looking for a reason to attack.”
For Trump, that reason came shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday morning, when Kimberly Klacik, a Baltimore area Republican who is black, appeared on “Dumb Fux & Friends” talking about video footage she had taken depicting Cummings’s district as overrun by trash and blight.
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