No, Bernie Sanders didn’t actually call Baltimore a ‘sh*thole,’ but his words were pretty demeaning of the city that people are now rushing to defend.
President Trump has a way of putting things that, regardless of how true his statements are, make liberals’ heads explode.
While many on the Left see Trump’s attacks on Elijah Cummings and his Congressional district in Baltimore as ‘racist,’ the fact of the matter is he is not saying anything that people do not already know.
Baltimore, with a murder rate “well above that of any other large American metropolis,” is poor, dirty and crime-infested.
And, back in 2015 and 2016, Bernie Sanders was pretty much in full agreement.
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Back in 2015, when Bernie Sanders was running for against Hillary Clinton in the Democrat Party primary, he stopped through Baltimore.
During his visit, he made some remarks about the city that no one—including his entourage of “community leaders”—thought was racist.
“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders said during his press conference. “You would think that you were in a Third World country, where unemployment is over 50%.”
“A community that does not even have a decent quality grocery stores where moms can buy quality food for their kids,” Sanders continued.
“But today what we’re talking about is a community in which half of the people don’t have jobs,” he said. “We’re talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable.”
“I didn’t see a decent grocery store around here,” Sanders stated later during a meeting with faith leaders, “So what are moms feeding their kids?”
A few months later, in 2016, Bernie Sanders again used Baltimore as a punching bag during a campaign rally–likening the city to “The West Bank in Palestine,” “North Korea,” and “distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China, and South Africa.”
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However, Bernie Sanders—the “likeable” old Socialist from Vermont—is not Donald Trump, nor does he have Trump’s penchant for calling people out the way Trump does.
Here’s what started the whole charade:
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) July 27, 2019
….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) July 27, 2019
Within hours after those tweets, Democrats and their allies in the media rallied to the defense of Elijah Cummings by calling Trump’s tweets ‘racist.’
However, Trump wasn’t backing down—and hasn’t yet.
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://t.co/seNVESZUht
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019
.@RepCummings, why don’t you focus on your district!? pic.twitter.com/F3Ej0Z21PZ
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
.@RepCummings — your district! https://t.co/JV4SF8ykCT
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
“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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that 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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
If racist Elijah Cummings would focus more of his energy on helping the good people of his district, and Baltimore itself, perhaps progress could be made in fixing the mess that he has helped to create over many years of incompetent leadership. His radical “oversight” is a joke!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
On Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton weighed in on the Trump vs. Cummings’ Baltimore tiff.
Rev. Al Sharpton: Pres. Trump "attacks everybody…but he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color. He doesn't refer to any of his other opponents or critics as 'infested.'" https://t.co/HwDGq9t7kD pic.twitter.com/NqnOcFOal2
— ABC News (@ABC) July 29, 2019
