Pelosi hits back at Trump's attacks on Cummings, calls Kushner a 'slumlord'

[mystery-ak]

Pelosi hits back at Trump's attacks on Cummings, calls Kushner a 'slumlord'
By Mike Lillis - 08/01/19 03:03 PM EDT

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday fiercely defended Rep. Elijah Cummings in the wake of President Trump's attacks on the Maryland Democrat and the Baltimore-area district he represents.

Pelosi, who was born in Baltimore and whose father and brother were both mayors of the city, accused the president of projecting his own "insecurity" on Cummings. She also hammered Jared Kushner — Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, whose family operates a real estate empire — as a "slumlord."

"To see the president demean a great leader like Elijah Cummings shows his own insecurity and his own lack of understanding about what progress really is," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.

"You really have to consider the source," she continued.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/455803-pelosi-hits-back-at-trumps-attacks-on-cummings-calls-kushner-a-slumlord

[PeteS in CA]

Jared Kushner owns all of Baltimore's rental housing? Who knew? And how exactly is Jared Kushner responsible for Baltimore's turd-world level murder rate?

Fix Baltimore's problems, and if Jared Kushner is among them, fix that in the much larger process.

BTW, guess whose father was mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. Guess whose brother was mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971, after whom there has not been an R mayor? Miss Nancy was not merely trying to deflect criticism from Elijah Cummings!