'We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership,' Pelosi said about Cummings.
Congress's top Democrat came out Saturday afternoon against President Donald Trump for what she viewed as a racist attack earlier in the day on Congressman Elijah Cummings.
Trump called Cummings, who is also chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee, 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."
The congressman then used the attention focused in his direction to spotlight the work he had been doing, and called upon Trump to work with Democrats in Congress on the issue of soaring prescription drug prices. CNN anchor Victor Blackwell, who is also from Baltimore, argued Saturday that the president was using barely coded racial language when using the term"infestation."
In a July 14 tweet, the president claimed that these first-term progressive legislators"originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world ," even though only one, Omar, was born outside the U.S. and all are American citizens.
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