CNN’s Victor Blackwell offers an emotional response to Trump’s racist Baltimore tweets

CNN’s Victor Blackwell offers an emotional response to Trump’s racist Baltimore tweets
Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning with a mean-spirited and racist attack on Congressman Elijah Cummings and the West Baltimore district he represents. CNN's Victor Blackwell wasn't having it.
The president singled out Cummings — who notably chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, one of several investigating Trump's conduct — in a string of morning tweets. He called the Congressman "a brutal bully" and labeled his district as a "rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live[.]"
Even for a president who seems to savor stepping over the line, the harsh and offensive language Trump leveled at an American city where actual Americans live — not to mention the Congressman who represents them — struck a nerve. Nowhere was this more evident than on CNN. Read more...
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