Thread: Baltimore Ambush: Trump forces Democrats to defend the indefensible, again

Baltimore Ambush: Trump forces Democrats to defend the indefensible, again

Trump's unexpected Twitter attack on Rep. Elijah Cummings and his neglected city of Baltimore signals that Trump is a master electoral strategist who not only intends to win against Democrats, he intends to annihilate them.

July 28, 2019
By Monica Showalter

President Trump has done it again.
Just as he forced Democrats to defend the far-left 'Squad' in his unexpected ambush on Rep. Ilhan Omar and her pals, he's now forcing Democrats to own the urban shambles and filth that characterize one-party blue-city rule, putting all Democrats on their backfoot. That's what's behind his surprise Twitter assault that began with Rep. Elijah Cummings and his rat-infested Baltimore district, which pretty much came out of the blue.

Here's his unusually long string of street-fighting tweets, all of them calculated to hit Democrats where it hurts:

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......

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What's he doing? Forcing a new narrative as election time kicks in, making Democrats have to address the reality that they have been in power for decades in one-party blue districts and cities, and they have left those districts smoking ruins, rat-infested hellholes, "places no human being would want to live," complete with live-action shots. The video of the Baltimore resident decrying the Democratic area's neglect is absolutely deadly.
Obviously, Trump's aim is to cut deep into the black vote, by laying the blame for the decayed urban cities many are forced to live in, on Democrats and forcing them to defend that record. Blacks are Democrats' political base, and they're also the prime victims of blue-city policies as well as all the neglect inherent in them as Democrats focus on saving the earth by banning plastic straws or else offering free health care to every illegal border crosser, so it's an unusually bold attack.
How are Democrats going to defend themselves from this one? In one-party blue cities, states and districts, there's no one to blame but themselves. Trump's tactic is particularly ripe for propagation in solid-blue, shambling expensive California and already Trump is moving his attack onto Pelosi with his latest tweets.
Thus far, Democrats are fighting back by yelling 'racism.' It's a tired, weak weapon, grotesquely overused, and unlikely to rally black voters to Democrats, given the truth of Trump's tweets. What's more, it can't be employed by Pelosi, who's white. The issue and the narrative Trump is pushing out there is that all-blue cities are hellholes and they've been made hellholes because Democrats did it.
This is political brutality cubed, a sign that Trump is a going to beformidable candidate to Democrats seeking to unhorse him. What it shows is Trump not only means to 'win' against his opponents, he intends to annihilate them. His election game is on and he's not playing beanbag. He using the same powerful tactics he was able use on Pelosi and her bickering 'squad' which had the effect of forcing Pelosi to defend the indefensible and making Rep. Ilhan Omar the face of the Democratic Party. Now he's making urban decay the second face of the Democratic Party. His poll numbers went up after the first one. Count on them going up again after this.

President Trump has done it again.
Just as he forced Democrats to defend the far-left 'Squad' in his unexpected ambush on Rep. Ilhan Omar and her pals, he's now forcing Democrats to own the urban shambles and filth that characterize one-party blue-city rule, putting all Democrats on their backfoot. That's what's behind his surprise Twitter assault that began with Rep. Elijah Cummings and his rat-infested Baltimore district, which pretty much came out of the blue.
Here's his unusually long string of street-fighting tweets, all of them calculated to hit Democrats where it hurts:

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

· Jul 27, 2019

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA...…

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

....As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place

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Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!

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Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Video at the tweet

Elijah Cummings spends all of his time trying to hurt innocent people through “Oversight.” He does NOTHING for his very poor, very dangerous and very badly run district! Take a look.... #BlacksForTrump2020 https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1155168907654774784 …

Terrence K. Williams
✔ @w_terrence

Trump is being called a Liar & Racist for saying West Baltimore is poorly ran by Democrats.

Well here is a video of West Baltimore and according to Democrats this is beautiful site. They like to see black people living in filth. 0:35

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2:35 PM - 27 Jul 2019

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Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Video at the tweet

.@RepCummings, why don’t you focus on your district!?

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Kimberly Klacik @kimKBaltimore

Video at the tweet

More trash. More concerned residents. People live in the home with the silver van. This is @RepCummings district. This has nothing to do with race. Let us all pray the city removes the trash & install cameras to catch the individuals dumping on the property. #WestBaltimore

1:43 PM - 27 Jul 2019

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Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

video at the page link

.@RepCummings — your district! https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/1155253573959028737 …

Ryan Saavedra
✔ @RealSaavedra

.@kimKBaltimore interviews Ba
Verified account

@RealSaavedra

.@kimKBaltimore interviews Baltimore resident Michelle:

Michelle on Trump's tweets: "What he said was definitely true. [Cummings] hasn't done anything for us"
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Michelle on Cummings: "He's worried more about [caring for illegal aliens at the border] than his own people"

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4:08 PM - 27 Jul 2019

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Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

So sad that Elijah Cummings has been able to do so little for the people of Baltimore. Statistically, Baltimore ranks last in almost every major category. Cummings has done nothing but milk Baltimore dry, but the public is getting wise to the bad job that he is doing!

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Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

· 9h

Someone please explain to Nancy Pelosi, who was recently called racist by those in her own party, that there is nothing wrong with bringing out the very obvious fact that Congressman Elijah Cummings has done a very poor job for his district and the City of Baltimore. Just take...

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

....a look, the facts speak far louder than words! The Democrats always play the Race Card, when in fact they have done so little for our Nation’s great African American people. Now, lowest unemployment in U.S. history, and only getting better. Elijah Cummings has failed badly!

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Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

“Elijah Cummings has had his chance to address it (crime & conditions in Baltimore) for decades, and he hasn’t gotten it done.” @PeteHegseth @foxandfriends How can he get it done when he just wants to use his Oversight Committee to hurt innocent people and divide our Country!

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What's he doing? Forcing a new narrative as election time kicks in, making Democrats have to address the reality that they have been in power for decades in one-party blue districts and cities, and they have left those districts smoking ruins, rat-infested hellholes, "places no human being would want to live," complete with live-action shots. The video of the Baltimore resident decrying the Democratic area's neglect is absolutely deadly.
Obviously, Trump's aim is to cut deep into the black vote, by laying the blame for the decayed urban cities many are forced to live in, on Democrats and forcing them to defend that record. Blacks are Democrats' political base, and they're also the prime victims of blue-city policies as well as all the neglect inherent in them as Democrats focus on saving the earth by banning plastic straws or else offering free health care to every illegal border crosser, so it's an unusually bold attack.
How are Democrats going to defend themselves from this one? In one-party blue cities, states and districts, there's no one to blame but themselves. Trump's tactic is particularly ripe for propagation in solid-blue, shambling expensive California and already Trump is moving his attack onto Pelosi with his latest tweets.
Thus far, Democrats are fighting back by yelling 'racism.' It's a tired, weak weapon, grotesquely overused, and unlikely to rally black voters to Democrats, given the truth of Trump's tweets. What's more, it can't be employed by Pelosi, who's white. The issue and the narrative Trump is pushing out there is that all-blue cities are hellholes and they've been made hellholes because Democrats did it.
This is political brutality cubed, a sign that Trump is a going to beformidable candidate to Democrats seeking to unhorse him. What it shows is Trump not only means to 'win' against his opponents, he intends to annihilate them. His election game is on and he's not playing beanbag. He using the same powerful tactics he was able use on Pelosi and her bickering 'squad' which had the effect of forcing Pelosi to defend the indefensible and making Rep. Ilhan Omar the face of the Democratic Party. Now he's making urban decay the second face of the Democratic Party. His poll numbers went up after the first one. Count on them going up again after this.

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Quote: Also today… a new report shows that the murder rate in Baltimore is worse than the three Central American countries that people are fleeing from to seek asylum inside the United States."



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Rep. Cummings: Baltimore is safe and Trump is a racist. Also Cummings: Someone just broke into my home.




Rep. Cummings: Baltimore is safe and Trump is a racist. Also Cummings: Someone just broke into my home.

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Some are calling it irony. Others are calling it karma.
Police are calling it a break-in.
A report released on Thursday shows that Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore home was broken into over the weekend.
It happened Saturday around 3:40 a.m. at the house in the 200 block of Madison Avenue, a Baltimore Police Department spokeswoman said.
Local media outlets report that’s where the Democratic congressman lives.
Police haven’t determined if anything was stolen.
Ironically, it happened just hours before President Trump accused the House Oversight Committee chair on Twitter of being a “brutal bully” and called Cummings’ district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and a “very dangerous place.”
Congressional Democrats have slammed President Trump for stating facts about Baltimore, saying he’s a racist for it.
Also today… a new report shows that the murder rate in Baltimore is worse than the three Central American countries that people are fleeing from to seek asylum inside the United States.
According to a new study, Baltimore’s murder statistics show that the city is more dangerous than Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
If they’re seeking safety from crime and murder… they shouldn’t go looking in Baltimore.



The city is on pace to hit 340 murders this year. (NBC 11 Broadcast)

The Princeton Policy Advisors released the results of the study.
They determined that in Baltimore, 56 out of every 100,000 people are murdered. The Maryland city is on track for 340 murders this year.
When looking at Honduras, it was 38 per 100,000.
With Guatemala it was 22 in 100,000.

With El Salvador, the study found that 50 in every 100,000 would be murdered.


The Princeton Policy Advisors released the following findings. (Princeton Policy Advisors)

“That Baltimore’s murder rate is higher than the most dangerous countries’ in Central America is frankly appalling on many levels, and as someone who grew up in Baltimore, I believe increased accountability is long overdue,” Princeton Policy President Steven Kopits said as a result of the findings.
The Center for Immigration Studies posted the following tweet, in which they acknowledged the countries that were responsible for a heavy concentration of asylum seekers were actually safer than some of the cities they would be headed toward.

Center for Immigration Studies @CIS_org

The murder rates in Central America have fallen by roughly half since 2011 (https://cis.org/Sussis/No-Relationship-Between-Homicide-Rates-Central-America-and-Illegal-Border-Crossings …).

Over that same time period, the number of migrants from those countries has soared. Migrants aren't coming to the US for safety, but for jobs (as they openly say when polled). https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1155954969230446593 …

No Relationship Between Homicide Rates in Central America and Illegal Border Crossings | @CIS_org

Cracks in our asylum laws create far stronger incentives for Central Americans to travel to our southern border than fear of violence.
cis.org

Ilhan Omar
✔ @IlhanMN

Guatemala is NOT a safe third country for migrants from El Salvador and Honduras. It is not even a safe country for many Guatemalans.

This agreement violates human rights and international law.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/w...rd-asylum.html …

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Here’s where it gets crazy. Baltimore is all but a ‘sanctuary’ city. While it refuses to associate itself with the name, the rules for police interacting with ICE officials are the same.
Back in 2017, Baltimore’s police commissioner announced that officers would not work with federal agents to enforce immigration laws. These sanctuary laws often stem from leaders’ supposed desires to build trust amongst immigrant communities. Their theory is that if the undocumented person isn’t scared that police will turn them over to federal officials, they’d be more apt to help in local investigations.
But instead, it just creates a breakdown between members of law enforcement, and puts handcuffs on them over working alongside the feds.
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Kopits went on to say that people “will no doubt be surprised to read that Baltimore has a higher murder rate than the Central American countries whose violence the left has claimed led to the asylum crisis. Central America used to be much worse. As late as 2015, for example, El Salvador’s murder rate was about 100 — almost twice that of Baltimore. But security is much improved across the Northern Triangle countries (one reason we concluded that the asylum surge was caused by a change in U.S. policy, rather than push factors in Central America).”

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In what became a controversial tweet over the weekend, President Trump claimed the longtime congressman’s Baltimore district is “FAR WORSE” and “more dangerous” than the southern border.

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......

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“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous,” Trump tweeted.

….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

· Jul 27, 2019

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA...…

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

....As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place

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Elijah Cummings – the thirteen-term representative who has “served“ the greater Baltimore area since 1996 has been one of the hardliners pursuing impeachment of the President, criticizing him in many ways even before his inauguration.

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!

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This has never been more evident than this past week as he appeared to lead Robert Mueller with a leash in order to set up the President against charges that Mueller concluded couldn’t be charged.

Elijah E. Cummings
✔ @RepCummings

Mr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors.

It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.

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Of course Nancy Pelosi had to stick her nose in and scream “racist!”.

Nancy Pelosi
✔ @SpeakerPelosi

.@RepCummings is a champion in the Congress and the country for civil rights and economic justice, a beloved leader in Baltimore, and deeply valued colleague. We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership. #ElijahCummingsIsAPatriot https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073964634517505 …

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......

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The rest of the story involves Cummings’ alignment with several of the President’s other critics: Maxine Waters (D-CA), Al Green (D-TX), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
I say “alignment” because their motives are exactly the same, and unfortunately, are their accomplishments. In many years serving as representatives for their jurisdictions, Cummings, Green, and Waters have gotten little to nothing accomplished for their constituents. And other than the exceptionally laughable Green New Deal, Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib haven’t proffered any legislation worth reporting – for their districts or the rest of the nation.

I find it incredibly ironic that three of the most seasoned, yet outspoken critics of the President have resided over districts that are failing miserably, in some of our largest cities with the largest fiscal budgets in the nation.
Al Green’s district in Houston, where he’s served for 14 years, has seemingly been left out of all the other prosperity the Houston area is enjoying – his area sits on the sidelines while Katy, Pasadena/Baytown, and areas north of Houston explode with growth, jobs, and industry.
Perhaps the blinders he’s wearing don’t allow him to see the needs of his constituents since he’s so focused on a coup to overthrow a duly elected President.
Maxine Waters presides over one of the most destitute areas in the Los Angeles metroplex. Her daily speeches about “high crimes and misdemeanors” in her efforts to #Impeach45 have obviously outweighed her oath of office and her duty to help and protect her citizens…as troves of rats, infested with medieval diseases begin to thrive – throughout one of the largest homeless populations in the country.
But hey, let’s outlaw plastic straws.
Back to Elijah Cummings, I can’t help but pay attention to two of the largest failures a city government and US Representative could be party to – first, Baltimore police were made to stand down during riots, and told to “let people be angry” and tear things up as millions of dollars in damage was done to city businesses and homes and looting, robberies, and assaults spiraled out of control.
In the same area, teachers, principals, and superintendents received huge bonuses for incredible graduation rates of high schoolers and acceptance numbers into college – turns out it was all a scam – the grades of students were inflated, attendance numbers were patently false, with some students attending less than half the school year, and the college acceptance?
That was fake, too – officials at a local college were bribed to fabricate acceptance numbers. School system officials got rich, kids didn’t learn much of anything, but the city looked great.
And it was all a scam. And who loses? Those very kids he almost cried about when recently dogging the President.
There is a significant police/law enforcement angle to all of this.
In each of these Democrat-controlled cities and areas, represented by all six of the people I’ve described here – law enforcement retention rates are at all-time lows, recruitment is down, and good officers are flooding out of the areas and moving to places where they’re appreciated and don’t have to worry about dying each and every day.
Police are vilified by these very “leaders” who represent them, enabling and empowering citizens to perpetuate hate crimes, assaults, and murders onto the members of our law enforcement community.
The President, no matter what subject he’s speaking on, always brings his words around to praise law enforcement, other first responders, currently serving military and military veterans. You don’t hear any one of those representatives talking about people in those categories, or how proud they are to serve our nation as representatives, or how proud they are of those servants in our communities.
The chant on impeachment is common with these people – “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
Ironically, these representatives are the very people who have become traitorous to their country, states, and cities, and have forsaken their oaths of office – never stopping a moment in their relentless and zealous attacks against the President. And yet committing these very crimes they speak of – themselves.
It is time for impeachment. But not the President.

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Elijah Cummings Humiliated As Fans Hang ‘Trump 2020’ Banner In His City

It had to be embarrassing for Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings if he was watching television and witnessed what happened at a Major League Baseball came in his city.
The Baltimore Orioles were taking on The Toronto Blue Jays in Rep. Cumming’s district when a group of fans hung a “Trump 2020” banner from the balcony.
Many fans booed and the police and stadium security got a hold of the four fans and took them from the stadium,” CBS Baltimore reported.

Four fans who unfurled a banner in a baseball stadium supporting President Donald Trump’s reelection were escorted out of a Baltimore Orioles game by police and stadium officials.
A photo taken by Nathan Ruiz at the game shows the fans hanging the red, white and blue banner with the words “Keep America Great!” and “Trump 2020″ during the eighth inning at Camden Yards.
“There are some people hanging a ‘Trump 2020’ sign over the second deck in Oriole Park. Very little effort has seemingly been made to remove it despite a small ‘Take it down’ chant breaking out,” Ruiz said.

There are some people hanging a “Trump 2020” sign over the second deck in Oriole Park. Very little effort has seemingly been made to remove it despite a small “Take it down” chant breaking out. pic.twitter.com/zciuu1RRkw— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) August 2, 2019

“Trey Mancini greets Jason Adam with a homer B8 but fans at Camden Yards distracted by Trump 2020 banner unfurled by a fan in second deck.
Is Trump correct on Baltimore?

“Some chant ‘take it down, take it down,’ others boo as Mancini circles the bases,” columnist Shi Davidi said on Twitter.

Trey Mancini greets Jason Adam with a homer B8 but fans at Camden Yards distracted by Trump 2020 banner unfurled by a fan in second deck. Some chant “take it down, take it down,” others boo as Mancini circles the bases. pic.twitter.com/VZgVjeaGpA— Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) August 2, 2019

A “Take it down” chant broke out at Camden Yards as this was unveiled in the eighth inning tonight. The banner has not been well-received. #Orioles pic.twitter.com/Orr7rqn8im— Jon Meoli (@JonMeoli) August 2, 2019

https://newson-24.com/elijah-cumming...r-in-his-city/

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Dems condemn Trump's 'racist' Baltimore criticisms. But these videos, facts reveal the truth about Baltimore.

Rep. Cummings: Baltimore is safe and Trump is a racist. Also Cummings: Someone just broke into my home.

What are the chances Elijah Cummings' recent burglary was just a convenient disposal of stuff bought with embezzled funds and you have to dump the evidence?