President Trump‘s critics on Sunday called his attacks on House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) racist while the president’s allies defended him and Trump himself doubled down on his remarks.
It was the second Sunday in a row to be dominated by a debate over an attack by the president on a lawmaker of color and his record on racial issues.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said the tweets, in which Trump called Cummings’ majority-black district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live,” had “absolutely zero to do with race.”
View the complete July 28 article by Zack Budryk on The Hill website here.