Trump's attacks on Elijah Cummings are increasingly concerned with his committee's investigations
"Cummings should take his Oversight Committee and start doing oversight on Baltimore. He'd find out some real things."
Zack Ford
Jul 30, 2019, 4:24 pm
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has “no strategy” when it comes to racist attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and his home district, adding that Cummings, as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, should use his political power to investigate the city of Baltimore.
The House Oversight Committee is currently conducting multiple investigations into the Trump administration and has issued subpoenas for the president’s financial accounting documents, which he has so far rejected.
Trump’s most recent comments come in the wake of multiple attacks on Cummings, who has criticized the administration’s immigration policies and inhumane conditions inside migrant detention facilities at the southwest border. In retaliation for that criticism, Trump over the weekend slammed Cummings, calling his home district in Baltimore “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” and questioning why any human would want to live there. Cummings’ West Baltimore district is majority-black, and the president’s comments were widely panned as racist.
During a rare second press appearance Tuesday afternoon, Trump was asked if he understood that Cummings was not the mayor of Baltimore and did not oversee the city’s day to day issues. Ignoring the question, Trump pointed out that Cummings was one of the “highest ranking politicians” serving Baltimore and all the mayors who had been “thrown out” in recent years were friends of his, implying that Cummings himself was corrupt.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-suggests-house-oversight-committee-has-jurisdiction-over-baltimore-but-not-his-finances-5faf3a047109/
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