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    Resurfaced video shows Elijah Cummings calling Baltimore 'drug infested,' likening residents to 'zom

    Resurfaced video shows Elijah Cummings calling Baltimore 'drug infested,' likening residents to 'zombies'

    House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., previously referred to his community of Baltimore as a "drug-infested" area, using a term that President Trump included in a tweet widely panned as a racist attack on the city.

    The video, tweeted by the president on Wednesday, showed Cummings lamenting the city's scourge of drugs while speaking during what appeared to be a congressional hearing.

    "This morning, I left my community of Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children," he said. "The same children that I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up, now walking around like zombies."

    Trump originally called Baltimore a "rat and rodent infested mess," apparently conjuring allusions to racism for some media outlets. CNN's Erin Burnett, for example, accused Trump of feeding his base's "basest tendencies" by using those words to describe a majority-African American city.

    "Infest has become sort of a trope for Trump," she added before pointing to statements about immigrants and inner cities. "Infest is a loaded word throughout history."

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., similarly called Trump's tweets "racist," although it's unclear what exactly she was referring to in the tweets.

    The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., responded to the old footage by asking whether Cummings himself was racist.

    "Obviously racist... Right? Those are the rules!" he tweeted alongside the video.

    Trump has defended himself by claiming that he was "stating plainly what most people already know." "Elijah Cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district, and of Baltimore itself. Dems always play the race card when they are unable to win with facts. Shame!" he said over the weekend.

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    The video, tweeted by the president on Wednesday, showed Cummings lamenting the city's scourge of drugs while speaking during what appeared to be a congressional hearing.

    "This morning, I left my community of Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children," he said. "The same children that I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up, now walking around like zombies."

    The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., responded to the old footage by asking whether Cummings himself was racist.

    "Obviously racist... Right? Those are the rules!" he tweeted alongside the video.


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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    The video, tweeted by the president on Wednesday, showed Cummings lamenting the city's scourge of drugs while speaking during what appeared to be a congressional hearing.

    "This morning, I left my community of Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children," he said. "The same children that I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up, now walking around like zombies."

    The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., responded to the old footage by asking whether Cummings himself was racist.

    "Obviously racist... Right? Those are the rules!" he tweeted alongside the video.


    Ouch.
    That was classic! I love it when their words come back to bite them in the keister! And I've been making sure, whenever I get the chance, post on Social Media photos of President Trump with several well known black leaders & celebrities that now call him racist...Al Sharpton and his den of pimpsters, stoop dogg, and others that have benefitted from Trump's billions. I'm so glad they're ALL being exposed for their hypocrisy, the Democrats are going down and hopefully, will never rise again.
    When your praise match your prayers, the answer will come.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiant Woman View Post
    That was classic! I love it when their words come back to bite them in the keister! And I’ve been making sure, whenever I get the chance, post on Social Media photos of President Trump with several well known black leaders & celebrities that now call him racist...Al Sharpton and his den of pimpsters, stoop dogg, and others that have benefitted from Trump’s billions. I’m so glad they’re ALL being exposed for their hypocrisy, the Democrats are going down and hopefully, will never rise again.
    There's a word for it: hypocrites.

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