As support in the House for an impeachment investigation picks up steam the "high chair king of Fifth Avenue", as Maureen Dowd calls Trump, will try to distract attention from the House activity to being the racist he always was.
Put all the movie theaters in the US together and you would have less projection content about his very own presidency, and his personal history, than Trump put into his anti-Cummings tweets.
"“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,” Trump wrote. “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.”
Soon thereafter he added, “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!”
He followed that up later on Saturday night by writing, “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!” Throughout the day on Saturday he also retweeted several videos that purportedly showed various impoverished areas of Cummings’ district."
‘Louder and more hateful’: Big-city leaders say Trump’s attacks on Baltimore are escalation of his strategy to denigrate diverse, liberal areas
"From AOC to George Bush’s daughter — Donald Trump’s racist tweets are taking a beating"
Trump is taking heat for his racism, however Trump likely knows his pushing it could still be the key to his reelection. See excerpt below.
By David Nakamura July 28 at 8:10 PM
President Trump’s denunciations of Baltimore as an uninhabitable city are the latest in a string of disparaging attacks on diverse, liberal enclaves as violent, dirty and outside the mainstream — rhetoric that paints those areas of the country as fundamentally less American than whiter, more conservative strongholds.
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“His spewing of white supremacist rhetoric is unending,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) said in an interview Sunday, adding: “I fear that the rhetoric will only get louder and more hateful the closer we get to the election.”
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An analysis last week from David Wassermann, an editor at the Cook Political Report, suggested that Trump could lose the popular vote by as many as 5 million — nearly twice the number he lost by in 2016 — yet still go on to reelection in the electoral college .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/how-the-electoral-college-works/?tid=a_inl_auto .. next year if he is able to drive his supporters to the polls in key swing states.
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At the Turning Point USA conference, Trump repeated his baseless assertion that large numbers of undocumented immigrants voted in the 2016 election and called results in California, which he lost, “totally rigged.” His own Commission on Voter Fraud disbanded in January 2018 without finding any such evidence.