'Looking for a reason to attack': How Trump seized on a Fox News broadcast to go after Cummings

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

‘Looking for a reason to attack’: How Trump seized on a Fox News broadcast to go after Cummings

By Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Robert Costa July 29 at 8:03 PM

President 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.

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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 “Fox & Friends” talking about video footage she had taken depicting Cummings’s district as overrun by trash and blight.

Almost exactly an hour later, the president weighed in with tweets calling Cummings’s district “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” saying that “no human being would want to live there” and dubbing the congressman “a brutal bully.”

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[Marie Marie]

1. What a loser! Not even smart enough to come up with his own insults.

[mr_lebowski]

2. He's a friggin' child ... and today we've learned the REAL reason ... Cummings is exposing his

family's corruption in trying to get around Congress and letting KSA have nukes, with the profits going into his and Jared's pockets.