President Trump continued to attack the “corrupt city” of Baltimore while speaking to reporters on Tuesday morning.
The president began his attacks against the city and Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings over the weekend, calling the city a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.“
“Baltimore has been very badly mishandled for many years,” Trump stated outside of the White House on Tuesday. “As you know Congressman Cummings has been there for a long time. He’s had a very iron hand on it. It’s a corrupt city. There’s no question about it. All you have to do is look at the facts. The government has pumped in over the years billions and billions of dollars to no avail, to absolutely no avail. Baltimore is an example of what corrupt government leads to.”
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The president continued, “But we’re already involved from the standpoint that over many years, billions and billions of dollars have been given to Baltimore. It’s been misspent, it’s been missing, it’s been stolen with a lot of corrupt government. And as you know Cummings has been in charge. Now, I will say this, I think that Representative Cummings should take his oversight committee and start doing oversight on Baltimore.”
Trump’s comments echo a tweet from Monday night in which he discussed “billions of dollars” that “have been pumped in over the years but to no avail.”
Baltimore’s numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy. Billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years, but to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted. Ask Elijah Cummings where it went. He should investigate himself with his Oversight Committee!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2019
The president’s attacks also came after Cummings, the House Oversight Committee chairman as Trump mentioned, gained authority to subpoena top White House aides for their personal communications.
