HUD Secretary Ben Carson said he would like for President Trump to visit Baltimore, but suggested that the president feels he would be treated 'so hostilely' that he was reluctant to come
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“I’ve received more phone calls than I think on any other subject of people from Baltimore and other cities corruptly run by Democrats, thanking me for getting involved,” he told reporters outside the White House. Cummings was invited to the event Wednesday but couldn’t make it “due to scheduling commitments,” a spokesperson for the lawmaker said.
Carson referred to that career Wednesday, saying he often faced a “dilemma” about sending his patients “back into some of the neighborhoods that I knew that they came from … where there were rats and roaches and mice and ticks, where there were just unabated lead problems that were having devastating effects on their mental development.”
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