The Baltimore Sun editorial board lit up President Trump Saturday night for his Twitter tirade against their city and Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful Democrat who represents Maryland’s Seventh District.
Cummings, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, has over the last two weeks has both authorized subpoenas for senior White House staffers’ communications and ripped into acting Homeland Security chief Kevin McAleenan over the conditions of the government camps for migrants at the border.
Baltimore officials and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Maryland native, rebuked the president’s comments about the district where 55 percent of residents are African-American before the Sun criticized Trump at length. Trump has spent most of July embroiled in a feud with four Democratic congresswomen of color, saying that if they have any criticisms of the United States they should leave. The seventh district of Maryland — which Cummings has represented from 1996 and the president excoriated via Twitter — is in the United States, a fact the paper mentioned.
Story continuesThe district covers parts of downtown Baltimore and the surrounding suburbs, and includes Johns Hopkins University and the Inner Harbor, a major tourist attractions. According to Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com it has the second-highest average income of any majority-black district in the country.
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