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"Trump's an asshole for calling our city a trash strewn, rat infested shithole..."
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Watch: Rat Runs Through Live Shot During Story on Trump’s Baltimore Tweets
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/201...hot-during-story-on-trumps-baltimores-tweets/
JOSHUA CAPLAN 30 Jul 2019
A rat was spotted scurrying through a Baltimore reporter’s live shot as she reported on President Donald Trump’s tweets about the Democrat-controlled city’s growing rat infestation problem.
On Monday, FOX45 Maxine Streicher was reporting from west Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, where residents conceded that President Trump’s remarks about the city’s worsening conditions.
“We spoke with a lot of people today who call Sandtown home and are deeply offended by the president’s comments, but they will be the first to tell you that, yes, this area has its fair share of problems, and continues to struggle with crime and poverty,” Streicher reported.
The report featured Sandtown resident Darriel Harris, who acknowledged it’s true that the area — and other parts of Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) 7th congressional district — is plagued by issues.
“There’s truth that there’s a bunch of problems here in this city,” said Harris. “There’s a bunch of problems in this district, there’s things that need to be addressed.”
A rat was seen running out of a dilapidated building as Streicher reported that residents believe President Trump should consider visiting the area to “take a look at things for himself.”
Over the weekend, President Trump eviscerated Cummings’ over Baltimore, saying his district’s conditions are “far worse” than those inside immigrant detention facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,” President Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday. “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.”
Democrats immediately raced to denounce the president’s comments, calling them racist and insensitive, though lawmakers did not dispute his remarks with data dispelling Baltimore’s laundry list of problems.
“Rep Cummings is a champion in the Congress and the country for civil rights and economic justice, a beloved leader in Baltimore, and deeply valued colleague,” House Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) tweeted. “We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership.”
President Trump responded to the outcry, stating his comments directed at Cummings were in no way racist.
“[T]here is nothing wrong with bringing out the very obvious fact that Congressman Elijah Cummings has done a very poor job for his district and the City of Baltimore.” he tweeted. “Just take a look, the facts speak far louder than words!”
The president then said Democrats were playing the race card in an attempt to discredit his argument.
“The Democrats always play the Race Card, when in fact they have done so little for our Nation’s great African American people,” he stated. “The Dems should stop wasting time on the Witch Hunt Hoax and start focusing on our Country!”
As President Trump pointed out, the city does indeed suffer from a rodent problem, which was detailed in the documentary film Rat Film, which aired on PBS in 2018. The Baltimore Sun even published an opinion-editorial in November 2016 — Trump’s right: Declare Baltimore a ‘disaster’ and rebuild it — in which Sean Kennedy, a visiting fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute, called for the city to be labeled a “disaster” and undergo extensive rebuilding efforts.
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If he was supporting things that increase it like cummings ,yes .
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Pro-Trump Activist Drums Up Dozens of Volunteers to Pick Up Trash in Baltimore
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pro-t...ng-to-pick-up-trash-in-baltimore_3021898.html
By Petr Svab
July 30, 2019 Updated: July 31, 2019
It was just a spontaneous idea, conservative activist Scott Presler said, in explaining how he came to oversee almost 100 people who have volunteered to pick up trash in Baltimore.
“My folks always told me, ‘Don’t ever offer a problem without offering a solution,’” he said in an interview with The Epoch Times.
When President Donald Trump recently chided Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) for squalid conditions in the congressman’s district, which includes downtown and West Baltimore, political talking heads offered their two cents on the matter, many focusing on Trump’s choice of words.
Presler, however, decided to act.
“I’m so tired of people saying, ‘We should do this, we should do that’ … I was just like, ‘I’ve had it. I’m going to go to Baltimore, even if it’s just me on a street corner picking up trash,’” he said.
He put out a notice on July 28 to his more than 300,000 followers on Twitter, asking if anybody wanted to join him. By the next day, he had almost 100 volunteers, about half of them from Baltimore and the rest from across the country.
Presler is known for his high-energy style in organizing voter registration drives and conservative activism workshops.
He quickly set up a spreadsheet and began to put together the plan—all volunteers will congregate next week at a designated location, sign in, receive gloves, trash bags, and water, and disperse into two neighborhoods that locals have guaranteed have “ample amounts of trash” to pick up, Presler said. He added that the numerous donations he has received will allow him to arrange for dumpsters, so trash collected during the initiative can be properly disposed of.
Some of the poorer areas of the city have had issues with littering and illegal dumping for years, made worse by the abandoned buildings and empty lots left behind by people who fled the pervasive and interconnected problems of violent crime and lack of economic opportunity.
Not a Rally
While Presler encourages participants to come wearing their pro-Trump apparel, he said the initiative isn’t a campaign rally.
“I just want the citizens of Baltimore to see [that] we do care. We do give a darn. And at the end of the day, we’re all American and if y’all are struggling in Baltimore and you guys need help, then we’re going to be there for you,” he said.
“I don’t want this to be an anti-Rep. Cummings event. That’s not what this is about. This is about helping our fellow American citizens.”
The attendance is not Republican-only either, he stressed.
“If Democrats want to come help, I would love the opportunity for this to be a community event where everybody comes together.”
Tight-Lipped
As for the date, time, and location, Presler wants to keep the specifics under wraps for now.
“I don’t want there to be any organizing against us,” he said, specifically mentioning that he wouldn’t want a far-left “Antifa,” or anti-fascist, group to show up and protest.
He welcomes volunteers to message him on Twitter under his handle [MENTION=487]Scott[/MENTION]Presler.
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Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore Home Burglarized, Police Say
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/08/01/break-in-reported-at-rep-elijah-cummings-house/
August 1, 2019 at 4:40 pm
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police are investigating after the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings was broken into early Saturday morning.
The burglary occurred around 3:40 a.m. at his Baltimore home in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue.
At this time, police don’t know if any property was taken.
This was several hours before President Donald Trump tweeted criticizing Cummings and his district including Baltimore.
Trump has continued to criticize over the last couple of days. Cummings has remained mostly silent as Trump continued to tweet and speak about Baltimore’s high crime rate and what he called a “rodent-infest (sic) mess.”
On Thursday, he visited Baltimore constituents in Waverly.
Detectives from the Central District are investigating this incident. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-396-2221 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/08/01/break-in-reported-at-rep-elijah-cummings-house/
August 1, 2019 at 4:40 pm
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police are investigating after the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings was broken into early Saturday morning.
The burglary occurred around 3:40 a.m. at his Baltimore home in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue.
At this time, police don’t know if any property was taken.
This was several hours before President Donald Trump tweeted criticizing Cummings and his district including Baltimore.
Trump has continued to criticize over the last couple of days. Cummings has remained mostly silent as Trump continued to tweet and speak about Baltimore’s high crime rate and what he called a “rodent-infest (sic) mess.”
On Thursday, he visited Baltimore constituents in Waverly.
Detectives from the Central District are investigating this incident. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-396-2221 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.
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Baltimore needs to get their shit together. Will it happen? Most likely not.
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Somebody up there likes Trump.Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore Home Burglarized, Police Say
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/08/01/break-in-reported-at-rep-elijah-cummings-house/
August 1, 2019 at 4:40 pm
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police are investigating after the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings was broken into early Saturday morning.
The burglary occurred around 3:40 a.m. at his Baltimore home in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue.
At this time, police don’t know if any property was taken.
This was several hours before President Donald Trump tweeted criticizing Cummings and his district including Baltimore.
Trump has continued to criticize over the last couple of days. Cummings has remained mostly silent as Trump continued to tweet and speak about Baltimore’s high crime rate and what he called a “rodent-infest (sic) mess.”
On Thursday, he visited Baltimore constituents in Waverly.
Detectives from the Central District are investigating this incident. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-396-2221 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.
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I was there at the Coast Guard Yard in 2004 while my ship was in dry dock. Some great dive bars and VFW on that side, at least back then anyway.
Also met Ron Jeremy at the Hustler Club during that stay.
Aside from those memorable moments, I only vaguely recall stumbling around somewhere that looked like any other old east coast town at night. Oh, and we stole a mirrored beer sign thingy and some kind of small generator from a random dive bar somewhere one night and then we squeezed 5 of us in some random local drunk dudes Ford Fiesta packed with all his shit and his dog. Must have been quite a site us drunkards pouring out of that clown car at the gate to the base that night, lol.
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LOL - He got stuck with driving duties on more than one occasion.
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