Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning with a mean-spirited and racist attack on Congressman Elijah Cummings and the West Baltimore district he represents. CNN’s Victor Blackwell wasn’t having it.
The president singled out Cummings — who notably chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, one of several investigating Trump’s conduct — in a string of morning tweets. He called the Congressman “a brutal bully” and labeled his district as a “rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live[.]”
Even for a president who seems to savor stepping over the line, the harsh and offensive language Trump leveled at an American city where actual Americans live — not to mention the Congressman who represents them — struck a nerve. Nowhere was this more evident than on CNN. Read more…
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