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Trump blistered for bigoted attack on Elijah Cummings: ‘It’s not even veiled racism’

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On Saturday, President Donald Trump blasted House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) for criticizing his border patrol policy, blasting his home district in Baltimore as a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess and a very dangerous & filthy place where no human being would want to live and suggesting it should be stripped of federal funding. Cummings’ district is actually above average in median income and education, but over 59 percent of its population is black, as is Cummings himself, so naturally Trump would assume it is filthy and impoverished.

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Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

You know who gets to decide what's racist? Non-whites.

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Trump began talking negatively about Cummings and Baltimore in a series of tweets on July 27. In a Quinnipiac University poll conducted from July 25 to July 28 -- two days before the tweets, the day of the tweets, and one day after the tweets -- Trump had a 6% approval rating and 84% disapproval rating with black voters. Eighty percent of black voters said Trump is racist, while just 11% said he is not.

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A Fox News poll conducted from July 21 to July 23 had Trump at 75% disapproval among black registered voters, with 22% approval. In a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted June 28 to July 1, 81% of African Americans said they disapproved; 18% approved. Both of those approval numbers were substantially better than the one in the new Quinnipiac poll, but still: On the whole, large majorities of African Americans were displeased with him

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Cummings didn't say anything to which Trump responded. Trump attacked Cummings because Cummings just got subpoena power.Yeah, blacks are too stupid to think for themselves. They only get liberal media? Did it ever occur to you to question why they can't find your sources? Or maybe they find them and figure out what they are?Go on believing the polls are all wrong. That's wonderful for us. Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

You know who gets to decide what's racist? Non-whites.

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Trump began talking negatively about Cummings and Baltimore in a series of tweets on July 27. In a Quinnipiac University poll conducted from July 25 to July 28 -- two days before the tweets, the day of the tweets, and one day after the tweets -- Trump had a 6% approval rating and 84% disapproval rating with black voters. Eighty percent of black voters said Trump is racist, while just 11% said he is not.

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A Fox News poll conducted from July 21 to July 23 had Trump at 75% disapproval among black registered voters, with 22% approval. In a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted June 28 to July 1, 81% of African Americans said they disapproved; 18% approved. Both of those approval numbers were substantially better than the one in the new Quinnipiac poll, but still: On the whole, large majorities of African Americans were displeased with him

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Some of Baltimore is a rat-infested hell hole. Some of it is seriously upscale. Much of it is in between. Quotes, please.

Actually none of Kushner's properties are in Cummings' district.

And arguably the most racist of Americans, white supremacists, see him as one of them.

Why do you hate our Constitution so?"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Freedom of speech, as demonstrated by mocking the President, is a leftist perversion? You really do hate the Constitution.

Not necessarily. Especially when it attacks a public figure. And, of course, demonstrating that the attack is true is a perfect defense.

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In the context of defamation actions (libel and slander) as well as invasion of privacy, a public figure cannot succeed in a lawsuit on incorrect harmful statements in the United States unless there is proof that the writer or publisher acted with actual malice by knowing the falsity or by reckless disregard for the truth.[2] The legal burden of proof in defamation actions is thus higher in the case of a public figure than in the case of an ordinary person.

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It appears to me from researching this that character assassination is not criminal. I wasn't able to find a definitive statement, but everything I found spoke only of civil action.Good luck proving that an obvious joke is libel.

Not if the premise is untrue. Trump is a racist according to those who should know;non-whites and white supremacists.Of course the rest of your message does not follow any logical pattern.

He summarized enough of the link.

Yes. Being racist doesn't mean you can never attack whites, only that you do so very rarely. There he was just being a lying asshole. New Hampshire and many other areas have drug problems, but not the entire state.