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Media Claim Trump Is Racist For ‘Infestation’ ‘Rat’ Tweet About Baltimore. These Videos Tell A Different Story.

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On Saturday, the media painted President Donald Trump as a racist for tweeting about the disastrous conditions in the district in West Baltimore represented by Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD).

“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,” Trump posted in a series of tweets on Saturday morning. “As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming[s’] 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.”

Trump added, “Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!”

CNN’s Victor Blackwell claimed on-air that the president was referring to black and brown people when he touched on Baltimore’s rat “infestation.”

“‘Infested.’ That’s usually reserved for references to rodents and insects, but we’ve seen the president invoke ‘infestation’ to criticize lawmakers before. You see a pattern here?” said an emotional Blackwell, according to CNN.

Others in the media were quick to echo Blackwell’s racially charged claim. However, in 2018, Baltimore was again rated as one of the “Rattiest Cities” in the nation by pest control company Orkin.

Patch reported:

Charm City is once again among America’s “Rattiest Cities,” according to a new report from pest control company Orkin, although it has shown progress in each of the past two years. Baltimore comes in at No. 9 on the company’s 2018 rankings released Monday.

This is the fourth year that Orkin has compiled the rankings, which are based on the number of rodent treatments the company performed from Sept. 15, 2017 to Sept. 15, 2018. It includes both residential and commercial treatments.

Baltimore dropped one slot from last year, when it was ranked eighth; two years ago it was No. 6 on the Orkin list. The city has undertaken several rat control measures, including the issuance of municipal garbage cans to contain waste.

Moreover, “Baltimore had the worst homicide rate among the nation’s 50 largest cities last year and the second-highest violent crime rate overall, according to new data from the FBI,” The Baltimore Sun reported in 2018.

Video filmed by politico Kimberly Klacik also reinforce President Trump’s tweets. In the videos, Baltimore residents complain about the rough conditions and desperately beg for government officials to “help.”

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After posting the video clips, Klacik claimed she was being targeted by the media. “So I am receiving calls that reporters are working on a hit piece on me. It is truly disappointing,” she said in a tweet posted Saturday afternoon. “Residents asked if I could help get the trash removed. I filmed it, posted it. You would think people would be upset that their brothers & sisters are living in those conditions.”

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld said that if Trump is a “racist,” he really “sucks at it,” noting the president’s agenda and enacted policies.

“Trump’s about to execute a white supremacist, while trying to free a black rapper from jail, as he pushes prison reform that directly benefits families of black men, while calling out a city where minorities are victims of crime & blight. if Trumps a racist, he sucks at it,” wrote Gutfeld.

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