Talk about your profiles in courage... the Racist-in-Chief attacks your friend, calling your friend a racist who represents a “filthy place” where “no human being would want to live” and you wait to respond to this outrage for three news cycles before sneaking out a text to ex-senator frothy mixture to read on CNN so you won’t have to mouth a rebuke of drumpf yourself….
“Republican Rep. Mark Meadows on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's recent attacks on Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, roughly three days after the president's onslaught of tweets against the Maryland lawmaker began.
Trump in tweets over the weekend accused Cummings of allowing his congressional district, which includes much of Baltimore, Maryland, to become consumed by poverty and crime. Trump described Cummings' district, which is majority African-American, as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" and a "very dangerous & filthy place." After facing accusations of racism over his tweets, Trump called Cummings a racist.
Meadows on Monday texted former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who's now a political commentator for CNN, stating, "No one works harder for his district than Elijah [Cummings]. He's passionate about the people he represents, and no, Elijah is not a racist."
The Republican lawmaker added, "I am friends with both men, President Trump and Chairman Cummings, and I know them both well, and neither is a racist. And he offered to go to Baltimore with President Trump to see what they could do to remediate some of the problems they have there."
Of course the purpose of this ploy was not to defend Elijah Cummings, but to set up the false equivalence that both Cummings and Trump were called racists and Meadows can clear that all up right now by attesting that both are not.
That and threatening Baltimore with a visit.
Hasn’t that city suffered indignity enough at drumpf’s hands already, Mark?
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[cross-posted to PolitiZoom]