After taking a non-stop pounding from Elijah Cummings about how “immigrants” are being treated, Donald Trump ripped into him
….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
Naturally, Nancy Pelosi immediately asserted that this was a racist attack.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) denounced President Trump‘s early morning criticism of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Saturday, labeling the president’s remarks “racist” and hailing the longtime congressman as a “champion” and “beloved leader.”
“.@RepCummings is a champion in the Congress and the country for civil rights and economic justice, a beloved leader in Baltimore, and deeply valued colleague,” Pelosi tweeted. “We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership.”
It was anything but racist. Kimberly Klacik is a member of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee and described by Fox News as a GOP strategist. She’s posted several videos on Twitter to make very clear that Trump has again hit the nail on the head. The stories are Klacik’s and of the people who actually live there:
Let's continue to expose the truth. This is a neighborhood filled w/families that have small children. West Baltimore is filled with trash thanks to dumping. A problem city officials should have addressed years ago. This is @RepCummings district. @realDonaldTrump
More to come pic.twitter.com/gFFszjW490
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) July 27, 2019
Residents constantly call the city to remove trash, no one shows up for months. Rats & roaches are a problem in almost every home. Illegal immigrants at the border live in better conditions than Americans in West Baltimore. This is @RepCummings district.
More to come… pic.twitter.com/rso3yxWh5f
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) July 26, 2019
It is so sad to see @VictorBlackwell & @CNN turn the light currently shining on #WestBaltimore into a race issue. This could result in a positive change. @RepCummings could help get his district in order. Listen to one of his constituents explain the "rats & rodents" problem. pic.twitter.com/LTG8AnT27x
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) July 27, 2019
More trash. More concerned residents. People live in the home with the silver van. This is @RepCummings district. This has nothing to do with race. Let us all pray the city removes the trash & install cameras to catch the individuals dumping on the property. #WestBaltimore pic.twitter.com/CCaRH5c0aO
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) July 27, 2019
Check out the comments
https://twitter.com/kimKBaltimore/status/1155182554007384064
The people who live there have something to say
In this video, @RepCummings constituents explain how clean Coppin State University is kept, while their neighborhood is used as a dumping ground. I was told if trash was not in marked green cans, the city refused to remove it. More abandoned row houses. #WestBaltimore pic.twitter.com/wuSNoiNJED
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) July 27, 2019
Baltimore resident Michelle on CNN’s Victor Blackwell suggesting Trump was racist for his tweet:
“Trump is not racist … I’m glad he put [Cummings] on blast. The rats just didn’t come. These houses just didn’t get torn down, they’ve been like this”
(2/2) pic.twitter.com/yfW7Cd0vhg
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 27, 2019
Back in 2015 Bernie Sanders likened West Baltimore to a third world country
The scene provided dramatic visuals of the economic inequality Sanders has made the center of his campaign, offering a new backdrop from which to argue for a higher minimum wage, tuition-free public college and tougher federal regulations of the nation’s banking sector.
“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders told reporters later at the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center in Bolton Hill. “You would think that you were in a Third World country.”
Pelosi did not call Sanders a racist. Neither did anyone else. So anyone and everyone who did not call Sanders a racist and now hurls the racist epithet at Trump now is just full of sh*t.
Cummings presides over a sh*thole and his constituents are actually worse off than those being detained at the border.
Democrats ignore problems they cause
Rep Cumming's Baltimore has a murder rate twice that of Guatemala
Guatemalan refugees at US border give violence as the reason they left
Guatemala has one of the highest murder rates in Latin America at 25.6 per 100,000 people in a year
— “and that’s the way it is” (@rpmpa) July 27, 2019
And where is that dumbass Alyssa Milano?
UPDATE
Kim Klacik is under attack from the left
https://twitter.com/kimKBaltimore/status/1155433786638839808
Someone is trying hard to hack my social media accounts. If you don't think I would say it, or post it, there is a 100% chance I did not. pic.twitter.com/AoY2rN5LWr
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) July 28, 2019
UPDATE #2
This is why nothing can get better in Baltimore
Just Google “world’s most dangerous cities,” and Baltimore comes in at number 21. For context, #20 is Juarez, Mexico, and there is a narco war happening there. In terms of violent crime, Baltimore is more violent than most 3rd world crap places. Baltimore has not elected a Republican as mayor since 1963. The people of Baltimore have been electing incompetent, corrupt, and downright stupid Democrats (that’s not to say all Dems are stupid) for at least half a century, with predictable results.
The sorry state of so many of our once-great one-party Democrat-run cities is an absolute disgrace and total embarrassment.
UPDATE #3
Where was the outrage?
Baltimore’s perpetual trash problem
Why can’t we have a clean city? It’s a problem that has perplexed generations of mayors in Baltimore. Call it the perpetual trash nemesis.
Decades of tactics have been tried to beat it. William Donald Schaefer’s Trashball campaign urged people to ball up their debris and toss it into a receptacle like a two-point shot. Kurt L. Schmoke banked on people idolizing Cal Ripken Jr. enough to convince them to pick up after themselves as part of his “It’s Your Baltimore. Don’t Trash It!” initiative, while Sheila Dixon tried to disgust people into doing better with photos of rats. Her “Cleaner, Greener Baltimore Initiative”also included adding hundreds of trash cans around the city and reducing trash pickup to focus more on recycling. Then there was Martin O’Malley, who made a big splash showing up to neighborhoods like a rock star clad in a jumpsuit and hanging from the back of a trash truck as part of an eight-day clean-up tour early in his administration.
Yet, here we are again in a mess of a city. Food containers, balled up clothes, paper, banana peels, plastic bags and tons of other pieces of litter line the shoulders of roads, pile up in alleys and are strewn across fields and yards. Not only is it unsightly and contributes to a rodent problem, but it can create a glum and gloomy feel in a time when the city is already facing self-esteem issues because of high crime and the scandal surrounding the University Maryland Medical System and Mayor Catherine Pugh, who’s now on an indefinite leave, and her Healthy Holly books. If anything, the city needs a major scrubbing to help restore some of its faith and image.
UPDATE
A year later, did extermination campaign solve rat problem at Baltimore’s public housing complexes?
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City says after a year of aggressively going after vermin in its public housing complexes, the rat population is down 82 percent and hundreds of citations have been issued in the surrounding neighborhoods to help combat the pests.
At the Perkins Homes complex in East Baltimore, however, residents Tonya Jackson and James Morton scoffed at the reported success.
“We have very bad problems,” said Jackson, 47, who has lived at Perkins for 12 years. “They reduced nothing.”
Morton, 55, a resident of six years, added, “Mice in the homes, rats outside.”
Homicides in Baltimore are on track to surpass 300 for the 5th year in a row
Elijah Cummings has been in Congress for over 20 years
President Trump is right and Cummings should be held responsible
— ACT For America (@ACTforAmerica) July 28, 2019
Trump Was Right: Orkin Lists Baltimore as One of Most Rat-Infested US Cities
Charm City is once again among America’s “Rattiest Cities,” according to a new report from pest control company Orkin, although it has shown progress in each of the past two years. Baltimore comes in at No. 9 on the company’s 2018 rankings released Monday.
This is the fourth year that Orkin has compiled the rankings, which are based on the number of rodent treatments the company performed from Sept. 15, 2017 to Sept. 15, 2018. It includes both residential and commercial treatments.
Baltimore dropped one slot from last year, when it was ranked eighth; two years ago it was No. 6 on the Orkin list. The city has undertaken several rat control measures, including the issuance of municipal garbage cans to contain waste.
Baltimore's rat problem is so bad, PBS aired a documentary titled 'Rat Film' about the city’s rodent problem. https://t.co/uu3sOeLVu5
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 29, 2019
This is hysterical
A rat runs through a FOX45 Baltimore Reporter’s live shot during a story on President Trump’s tweet Baltimore is rat infestedhttps://t.co/s60inZ6TtK pic.twitter.com/R4LFxsPWeK
— FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) July 29, 2019

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Except for liberals being foolish.
Here’s even more proof – check what this vile racist had to say about Baltimore
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Over and over liberal hypocrisy is exposed.
I wonder where the money to help the people of West Baltimore keeps going?
Elijah Cummings and wife suspected of stealing millions from charity
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/elijah-cummings-wife-hiding-millions-given-potential-bribes
Evidence of corruption in Elijah Cummings and wife’s charities and influence peddling
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/top-democrat-elijah-cummings-wife-may-have-gained-illegal-private-benefit-from-his-committee-activities
https://conservativemedia.us/politics/top-democrat-elijah-cummings-accused-of-tax-violation-refuses-to-show-his-taxes-still-demands-trumps/?fbclid=IwAR1LtdoCsowRxjULXxKg2K7NgPVdgt-QIQSGTFU8M_fxdcQ1wcqGKeNyGV0
@Deplorable Me: Of course, this week it was fun watching Gulag Barbie turn Pelosi into her personal gimp!
It was hurtful as hell to the people of Baltimore, Maryland, whether the jackass who posted it meant it to be racist or not. This is the President of the United States speaking to the people of the United States. What the unholy hell is wrong with this man?
The fundamental problem is that this man is a defective human being. He is totally unfit for office. Never in the history of the United States have we had a worse or more destructive president.
@Greg:
It is true, Greg. Truth hurts sometimes. Lies hurt all time. democrats have been lying since the day Trump took office- Russian agent, traitor, collusion, obstruction (of a conspiracy against him), concentration camps and now racist.
Enough.
The people of Baltimore know it’s true. It’s in the videos. It’s time for everyone else to know the truth. Goddam democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do their own constituencies.
BTW, Greg, what about Bernie’s comments?
@Greg:
Not nearly as LIVING there. Cummins cares so much for those people that he steals from their non-profits. What a giver.
So far, the only thing Trump has destroyed is Obama’s attempt to drag this country into socialism and poverty. He has rebuilt the economy, rebuilt confidence in the economy, rebuilt trust in this nation, rebuilt the strength of the military and is rebuilding the security of our border.
Baltimore was practically destroyed by Democrats’ false accusations, once again using race as a political weapon, about Freddy Gray’s death. Democrats don’t care about the safety and livelihood of citizens; they care about creating misery and using that misery as a political weapon. It is repeated over and over and over everywhere Democrats have the power to do so.
How is it racist if it is TRUE?
@DrJohn: UPDATE
This is how Democrats combat facts; they try to destroy the messenger. They try to mix THEIR lies with HER truth.
elihah baby was a gang member in his early days. pelosi a rabid bar fly-she did everyone. did business in baltmore and had a condo at Harbor View. wonder how many items elihad visited the “block’?
Sandy: “Cummings should be respected because he picked ME to be on the Oversight Committee.”
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/ocasio-cortez-attempts-defend-cummings-makes-look-worse
Not helping, Sandy.
sexual predator elijah in Lucinda Davis v. al green to the tune of $875,317 in 2008??
so no one remembers this ?? pig or predator is there a difference? in green’s case he is a sexual predator pig.
Trump, tellin’ it like it is.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-throws-squad-feud-back-at-pelosi-after-racist-accusation-democrats-always-play-the-race-card?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29
@Greg: How exactly does Turning The Lights On and exposing cummings for the fool he so clearly is make DJT a bad President?
@Greg:
Oh, yes, Greggie Goebbels; words are much more hurtful that living in a trash ridden neighborhood where rats, who can carry the plague, breed with rapid expansion. Nothing more like having the POTUS tell the truth about a Congress critter’s failure to work to resolve the problems in his own district. That really has to be much more hurtful than having your child bitten by a rat as the child sleeps.
Perhaps Trumps words will cause the people of Baltimore to wake up and realize that they are not being well served by the man who has fed them a fairy tale for decades, while resting on his laurels as a “civil rights” warrior. I would think the citizens of Baltimore have a civil right to live in a rodent free environment, but obviously your TDS has so destroyed your brain that you feel the President doesn’t have a right to call out the failure of Cummings.
Odd thing; with all the scandal surrounding Cummings, and his wife, the President should request Cummings tax returns and instruct the IRS to deeply investigate them for cause.
@retire05: No, requesting tax returns are only available to radical left wing radicals!
Here’s how it works:
Trump tweets something the Left screams is outrageous.
The media go mad backing up the Leftist shrieking.
Then the media takes a look at the issue.
Sees Trump was right.
Crickets.
In this case the Baltimore rat/trash issue is immediately called a race issue.
Odd.
When we had rats in Long Beach/Los Angeles Ports we never had an issue with calling it a rat problem.
Race had nothing to do with it.
Supporting a feral cat population was our solution.
Baltimore should try it.
Of course, 1st they’d have to quit calling it a race problem long enough to look for a viable solution.
@Nan G:
agree. the radicalized muslin terrorist-obama destroyed troves of national archives and was given a pass by the fake media. elijah was a gang banger in his youth and his district is a shit hole like la, san fran, and most of the west coast. ever wonder what the drug kick back is to him in his district?? the liberals socialists would identify a rat hunting cat as racial. Plutarch noted that “fortune, not wisdom, rules the affairs of mortals.” this is way to deep for a liberal socialist with a 6-7th grade education.
@Randy:
The reaction to Trump’s comments about Cumming’s district of Baltimore shows exactly how damn dumb the Democrats are. By calling Trump a racist, people are actually looking at Baltimore and the issues there. What Trump did was put a spotlight on Baltimore and the fact that the Democrat run city has failed its residents.
It will be interesting to watch the big (Democrat) rats now start scrambling but the photos taken by residents and the documentary made two years ago will be front and center now.
What we’ve got here is corrupt, lying, morally depraved billionaire openly expressing his contempt for how poor black people trapped in America’s neglected urban areas are forced to live. It’s pretty much the equivalent of Marie Antoinette’s flippant cake comment, except a hell of a lot meaner, and by intention.
Trump is deliberately provoking anger and deliberately widening racial and political divisions to serve his own ends, which correspond with the good of our nation and its people as a whole in no way whatsoever. That is a fact.
You CAN NOT make this stuff up!!
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/07/20/baltimore-police-deputy-commissioner-robbed-gunpoint/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29
@Steve: You don’t understand the liberal mindset. See, liberals are free to say and do whatever they want but Republicans are “RACIST” if they respond. Or, they can accuse the President of treason, of collusion with Russians, of being a Russian agent but if Trump responds, he is “obstructing”. Liberals do NOT like a fair debate; the have to have the only voice in the room or else their argument is exposed as lying garbage.
What Trump has done is call out these grandstanding Democrats to practice what they preach. Thus far, each and every one he has returned fire on has been corrupt and lying. One day, maybe, liberals may start looking at their own situations and realize exactly WHO is putting them behind the eight ball.
@Greg:
No, what we have is the President calling out the corrupt failures that do nothing but criticize others and generate lies when they should be taking care of their districts. No, Trump is not making fun of Cumming’s victims; he is telling Cummings to stop lying about CBP, stop making false accusations, stop stealing from non-profits and server his constituency.
He’s not “provoking” anything. He is answering the Democrat idiots that falsely accuse him of crimes. Cummings attack a CBP official with a grandstanding attack. Meanwhile, it is being exposed as a corrupt pile of garbage and Trump exposes his total dereliction of service to his constituency. Democrats are exposed as hypocritical trash. If that is regarded as a provocation, then tell your corrupt, trashy, slime for representatives to clean up their act.
Who wanted to trap people in big cities and tall tower apartment buildings?
It was Obama.
Who wanted Americans to quit driving cars and truck but to rely on public transportation instead?
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/04/fact-sheet-president-obamas-21st-century-clean-transportation-system
It was Obama.
In light of that look at how subway riders react to a rat on their subway car in NYCity.
These are not “poor blacks.”
They are New Yorkers.
They live in a big city in tall apartment buildings.
And they have abandoned their use of private vehicles.
This is Obama’s (the greenies) dream come true.
@Greg:
To me this seems appropriate. I mean, you wouldn’t want the President to be pleased with the sh*thole conditions democrats are content to see their constituents live in, right?
@Greg: You get further out every day with every post. Dementia must run in your family, too. You can not even look at all of the failing cities in the US with out crying “RACIST”. What the real issue is that Democrats have trapped minorities into ghettos with promises, takes their votes and provides them with pretty things to keep them happy. When someone draws attention to the issue, they are racists. I print out your posts and show them to people here in Colorado who did not immigrate from California. You are good for laughs every morning.
@DrJohn: Greg has his thong in a knot because he cant prove Trump wrong, just about every large democrat run city is a shithole over-run with vermin. The only human vermin there are the community organizers, always organizing never improving a damn thing.
@Greg:
If you did not suffer from terminal acute anal-cranial disease, and had bothered to look at the videos of the trash/rat infested areas of Baltimore, you would have seen that people of all skin tones live in those areas. Unfortunately, due to your malady, you seem to think that only black Americans are poor.
Remind us again, Greggie Goebbels, what administration gave us “Pigs in a blanket. Fry them like bacon” and “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.” Or such monumental events as the beer summit when an entire police department was smeared by the President because of one of his black friends or maybe a President who involved himself in the death of a kid who he said if he had a son he would look like that kid? Yeah, remind us all again of the excellent race relations in this country due to the actions of the previous administration.
@retire05: Only white people can be racist! That is one of the planks in the DNC platform.
@DrJohn: But no one is allowed to point out problems that only Democrats can be held responsible for. The filth in Baltimore, as well as other big cities, has been pointed out numerous time and NOT declared “racist”, but only when Trump does it, absolutely truthfully, does it suddenly, magically, politically, become racist.
In what way is this racist? Because Cummings is black? I think using skin color as the deciding factor in any position (even defense of the indefensible) is the definition of racism, or prejudice at the very least.
@Randy: Democrats prove themselves to be the racists in these cities. They rely on their belief that they can keep minorities in poverty and squalor if they hand them enough sustenance to just barely stay alive. Filth, rats, poverty and crime takes a back seat to their desire to dilute the voting rolls with illegal immigrants; those living in their rat sanctuaries won’t complain and will keep voting Democrat. Their support for sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants has had a devastating effect on conditions.
@Greg:
As are you and your party. What’s your reasoning?
July 29, 2019 — House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump’s attacks
Ah, yes, “…the wealth of off-premises tourism options for family members who sometimes join them.” Rat World is probably a favorite family amusement location.
Name a city the size of Baltimore in any state, red or blue, that doesn’t have its own share of serious urban problems.
@Greg: By the way Greg, what is Trumps purpose? What is his desired end state? Trump has greatly decreased minority unemployment. He has helped minorities imprisoned for non-violent crimes get into viable job training programs..The economy is booming. what is his end state that is so good for him?
Maybe they want to see what they can do the Democrats have failed to do. What better way to get minority votes. You just never get it Greg!
@Randy:
Greggie Goebbels seems to ignore certain aspects of Baltimore thinking he has hit pay dirt with the Washington Compost story.
1) Downtown metropolitan areas are generally well kept by the cities due to the sports stadiums being built in downtown areas (Arlington, Texas being one exception)
2) Those downtown areas are well policed when there are important conventions taking place as well as being well maintained by city sanitation crews
3) Downtown areas are not generally rat infested due to the lack of trash from residents. Most residents of downtown areas are condo renters/owners with extremely good trash removal.
4) The Marriott Waterfront, which sits right on the Patapsco River, is NOT in Elijah Cummings 7th Maryland district,
@Greg: Like Cummings’ residence, no doubt the “retreat” will be in a location that has been freed of rats, garbage and poor people. Democrats HATE hobnobbing with THEM unless they can get their acting lessons beforehand.
However, MOST of Baltimore, like anywhere else liberals rule, is a rat infested trash heap.
Trump has improved the employment prospects for blacks. He has also provided billions of dollars for inner city revitalization. He has proposed infrastructure spending, but Democrats would rather pretend they are going to impeach him and search endlessly for grounds. Cummings drew Trump’s ire when he bullied the CBP for not being able to handle the problem DEMOCRATS created, DEMOCRATS deny exists and DEMOCRATS would not provide additional funds to handle.
I don’t know about you, but I see a distinctive pattern.
@retire05:
As if Trump’s hometown has no crime, homelessness, or rats… (They at least have one less of the latter, with Trump out of town.)
@Greg:
Remind me again; when was Donald Trump the federal Congressman to New York?
Elijah Cummings has been Congressman to Maryland’s 7th Congressional district for 13 THIRTEEN terms. For the math challenged, like you, that is almost 26 years. How has Baltimore improved in that time?
Don’t bother to answer because it has not improved
Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Detroit, all failures………….all run by Democrats for decades.
@Greg: Yes Greg Balitimore has a wealthy population gerrymandered into districts so median incomes can look not so bad. Baltimore has also a flight problem loss of population high taxes entire areas depopulated the houses left to crumble.
Trump is correct the poor areas are ignored by politicians, plenty of promises, plenty of money, no successful policies, only repeated bad ones.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/baltimore-suffers-after-decades-of-mismanagement
There are nasty vermin they all have a D as political affiliation.
@retire05, #34:
As I recall, Donald Trump has no prior experience in government or public service, either civilian or military, of any kind whatsoever. Government and the rule of law have been viewed by Donald Trump primarily as obstacles to acquisition and to the fulfillment of personal desires and ambitions, unless they could be somehow used to his own advantage.
Consider yourself reminded.
@Greg: And what is that advantage Greg? You seem to answer only the easy questions. This question too hard for little Greggie? Looks like there may be some unredacted information released soon.
@Greg:
There you go, Greggie Goebbels. He was, unlike Elijah Cummings, never a Congressman for New York.
How do you explain Cummings 25 year tenure and his district is a rat hole, literally?
Fixed it for you and that is the very reason Cummings, and his crooked wife, are under scrutiny for their 501(c)3.
@retire05, #38:
How do you explain that Donald Trump has reached his current chronological age without leaving behind the behaviors of an angry child?
Is it purely coincidental that so many Trump followers all use that identical phrase so frequently, and then proceed with the same childish word or name-changing exercise? Do you think this somehow magically changes what was originally said?
If Elijah Cummings has represented his district for 13 consecutive terms, it’s a fair bet that the voters have kept him there because they believe doing so serves their interests. The GOP sure as hell has offered them nothing, and Donald Trump seems hellbent on adding insult to injury. He really needs to keep this up. Offending Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women voters, gay people, intellectuals, and anyone else identifying as a liberal or Democratic Party supporter is definitely his path to reelection.
@Greg: Americans tired of lying thieving scheming politicians voted for Trump. Trump is a solutions guy, how to get things done and solve problems, if he has to hurt feelings and step on toes of those in the way thats just what has to be done, he had hundreds of lawyers to keep it legal if just barely but legal. Plenty of politicians took his money to smooth the way to his success. He played their system of corruption, he knows it all to well. He has dealt with the mob, who are most likely more honest and honorable than the long term pols in our congress who made their multi-millions deep in pay for play, dems now are the party of the ultra wealthy, look at the biggest political donors they are not supporting conservatives. The ultra wealthy want all the jobs to go where there are no child labor laws no OSHA no unions no protection of the environment.
@Greg: I am sure behaving like an angry child is not a criminal offense. Although failure to abide with Federal security requirements is a federal offense. That includes releasing classified information to the media or allowing a foreign entity to access classified messages through deliberate actions.
@kitt:
That’s wonderful. Please regale me with tales of The Great Swamp Draining and The King of the Alligators, and tell me how giving the richest people in the country huge permanent tax cuts has no relationship to the recurrence of trillion-dollar annual deficits when the economy is as strong it can be expected to get.
@Greg: Remind me how many of the original FBI elite involved in spying on a Presidential candidate are left?
FYI: List of Obama FBI/DOJ Hacks Who Were Fired and Investigated for Corruption
Vermin all….To be clear:
The entire leadership of Obama’s FBI has all been either fired for misconduct or come under investigation for criminal activity
Comey, fired
Andrew McCabe, fired
Jim Rybicki, fired
James Baker, fired
Bill Priestap, fired
Peter Strzok, fired
Lisa Page, fired
David Laufman, fired
John Carlin,, fired
Sally Yates, fired
Maryy McCord, fired
Bruce Ohr, fired
James Turgal, executive assistant director (resigned)
Greg Bower, assistant director for office of congressional affairs (resigned)
Michael Steinbach, executive assistant director (resigned)
John Giacalone, executive assistant director (resigned)
Rachel Brand, deputy attorney general (resigned)
Trisha Beth Anderson, office of legal counsel for FBI (demoted or reassigned*)
Peter Kadzik, assistant attorney general, congressional liaison (resigned)
Matthew Axelrod, principal assistant to deputy attorney general (resigned)
Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney, SDNY (fired along with 45 other U.S. Attorneys)
Sharon McGowan, civil rights division (resigned)
Diana Flynn, litigation director for LGBTQ civil rights (resigned)
Vanita Gupta, civil rights division (resigned)
Joel McElvain, assistant branch director of the civil division (resigned)
Josh Campbell, Special Assistant to Comey: Resigned
David Laufman, (connected to Hillary’s email scandal) Chief of the DOJ’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section: Fired
All in the Executive branch, some still under investigation.
Taxation isnt the problem, spending is the problem, and the addiction to OPM (other peoples money) has not in any way been addressed , Paul Ryan was a traitor, Nancy Pelosi is a traitor.
I would like to see the GDP get stronger the 5 % range.
In authoritarian states, that’s called a purge. It’s where power is consolidated and your position is protected by methodically getting rid of or disempowering your critics and opponents. The first phase involved purging the Republican Party. Those who weren’t pro-Trump and didn’t fall into line weren’t true conservatives or true republicans.
That was necessary to clear the way for purging the Executive Branch, a process which is now nearly complete. To begin with, he pretty much cleaned house at the State Department, ridding it of any continuity of experience and expertise, and of any critics of his totally incoherent foreign policy. Next came the FBI and DoJ, for entirely obvious reasons. The intelligence community was demeaned and disparaged—in fact, Vladimir Putin’s assessments were sometimes more readily embraced that those of our own experts. Now the Director of National Intelligence will be replaced by the equivalent of William Barr. The EPA, Treasury, the IRS, Commerce, the Department of Education—all headed now by reliable toadies for specific purposes, or by representatives of the very special interests that they’re supposed to be regulating.
The Judicial Branch will necessarily be a far slower process, owing to the nature of judicial appointments, but it’s coming right along.
The Fourth Estate, however, presents a very serious problem. He has no direct power over them. All he can really do is try to discredit responsible journalistic outlets as a source of information, turning them into “the enemy of the people”—a phrase formerly only heard in connection with authoritarian propaganda outlets.
The foregoing, and all that he does to widen divisions and stoke fear and anger, are part of a pattern that has been seen in many places, many times before. Either they fail when they’re eventually recognized, or there’s hell to pay.
@Greg: Its called draining the swamp read everyone on the list was investigated for corruption and or misconduct, fired not by Trump himself.
In authoritarian states opponents are spied on, lied about, they jail them on false charges. It is the Democrats habit to use the power of the courts to destroy innocent people with attorney fees. https://thefederalist.com/2016/10/10/16-times-democrats-tried-to-prosecute-their-opponents
Even Nuns. The nun issue really made Barry look like a prick.
Trump is not in control of the hyped up over reaction of the MSM but it keep his name on the front page they give him hours of free air time.
They are not gaslighting those that can search why he would say something and find out he was right.
Thats why they want to fine 15K for sharing a meme. they cant control everything everyones reactions. You can be so easily turned by a freak on the boob tube telling you how you should react, and how to think.
@Greg:
Nothing Trump has done benefits himself personally. It has instead been detrimental to his businesses and himself personally. OTOH, black, Hispanic and female unemployment are at record lows. The economy is doing very well.
@DrJohn: One of the things that non-thinking people do is judge others actions and motivations by what they would do in the same situation. Greg and those like him will always judge others that way. So, following this accepted psychiatric opinion, what does that say about everyone who berates trump and accuses him of committing crimes to get elected? Is that what they did to get elected?
@kitt: @DrJohn: @Randy:
I watched an interview with the residents of Elijah Cumming’s district yesterday. To a person, they all knew who he was but couldn’t ever remember seeing him in their neighborhoods. And to a person, they reaffirmed just how bad their neighborhoods are with long-ago abandoned buildings, rat infestation and trash everywhere that the City of Baltimore will not pick up or clean up.
One thing President Trump has achieved with his dustup between him and Cummings is to bring to light the sorry state of Cummings’ district. It is all over the news. Let’s see if Cummings, who now has over a month off from his duties in Congress, actually goes to his district to try to get something done and some relief for his constituents. If he does, that’s a win for President Trump by forcing Cummings to do his damn job. And a win for the people of Maryland’s 7th Congressional district.
@Greg:
But Trump has not been running his home town. In fact, he got into politics BECAUSE of how it has been run. But, if making this irrational point helps support your failed ideology in your head, go ahead.
So you KNEW the answer. Odd.
Because he has to deal with whiny, crybaby, sore loser Democrats who ARE immature children. Look at them; they would rather watch people suffer and create suffering than cooperate with anything Trump tries to do.
@Randy:
ALL the questions Greg is asked have easy answers. He evades them because the TRUTHFUL answers are difficult to reconcile with his ideology.
@kitt: And, if the people responsible for THIS deal has not already been fired, they need to be added to your extensive list of deep state worms.
Evidence, smevidence. We don’ need no steenkin’ evidence. Democrats desire the police state where they can silence their opponent through imprisonment. They are in awe and envy of the Nazis, Soviets and Communist Chinese.
No, that was just the cherry on top.
@DrJohn: Trump got Democrats to fully align themselves with Sharpton!
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/07/29/dem-presidential-candidates-take-bait-express-solidarity-al-sharpton/
If Trump were to denounce cancer, I swear Democrats would rise up in unison defending all of cancer’s virtues. These people are all so transparently stupid and manipulable.
If I might ask for a favor, I would appreciate it if we could be a little more civil to Greg and Rich. I butt heads with them all the time and think they are mostly wrong headed but they are veterans and I respect that.
Thanks!