Baltimore is NOT rat infested as Trump tried to claim

[jimnyc]

Media in the past have reported on the rat issue in Baltimore
At least one media agency reported on the issue, also about drugs and DID IN FACT refer to PEOPLE as the rats.
Most importantly - there IS a rat infestation in Baltimore - and growing!
Baltimore has been a problem for many many years
Apparently Trump must have had someone sneak a rat into the video! :laugh:



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Totally Not Rat-Infested: Rat Runs Across Screen During Baltimore News Broadcast

A stray rat photobombed local channel Fox 45 as it ran a segment on conditions in Baltimore. As reporter Maxine Streicher told the audience that locals were "deeply offended" by President Donald Trump's comments about Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' district in West Baltimore, the camera zoomed in on a bag of trash lying on the floor, burst open.

A rat ran across the screen, from right to left.

"Cummings' 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 had tweeted.

https://i.imgur.com/qHndeGY.png

Liberals have attacked these tweets as racist, and CNN suggested that Trump used the word "infested" in a racist manner, to suggest that Baltimore is infested by black people — a patently absurd suggestion, since he clearly said it was infested with rats.

Watch the video evidence below.

https://i.imgur.com/8cPPakz.png

(watch above video at link)

https://pjmedia.com/video/totally-not-rat-infested-rat-runs-across-screen-during-baltimore-news-broadcast/

[Elessar]

Not rat infested?

Those furry things I saw scurrying around the USCG Yard in Baltimore Harbor
were not chinchillas!:laugh:

[Gunny]

Baltimore is in the Top 10 for rat-infestations in US cities. They can call it anything they want, but if it looks like a duck (or rat in this case) ....

Speaking of. My grandson calls Mickey Mouse "The Rat".

[STTAB]

Baltimore is in the Top 10 for rat-infestations in US cities. They can call it anything they want, but if it looks like a duck (or rat in this case) ....

Speaking of. My grandson calls Mickey Mouse "The Rat".

Trump wins again LOL will they EVER learn? Too bad Republicans are for the most part too stupid to figure out what is going on.

[Kathianne]

I don't condemn the President's remarks because of 'inlaws.' Just think of Billy Bob or Hillary's brother, talk about weird families. This is not convenient though. I don't see how the President can do much about his son-in-laws family:

https://time.com/5639861/trump-baltimore-rodent-tweets-kushner-apartments/



These Baltimore Residents Say Trump's 'Rodent' Tweets Ring True. They Live in Homes Owned by Jared Kushner's Family

BY REGINA GARCIA CANO AND BERNARD CONDON 7:24 AM EDT


BALTIMORE (AP) — Davon Jones doesn’t have to look far to see the irony in President Donald Trump’s tweets that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess.” His apartment owned by the president’s son-in-law has been invaded by mice since he moved in a year ago. “I don’t know how they come in,” Jones says. “Every time I catch them, they come right back.”


Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm owns thousands of apartments and townhomes in the Baltimore area, and some have been criticized for the same kind of disrepair and neglect that the president has accused local leaders of failing to address. Residents have complained about mold, bedbugs, leaks and, yes, mice — plenty of mice. And they say management appears in no hurry to fix the problems.


“They don’t care,” says Dezmond James, who says he has spotted as many as three mice a week since he moved in to the Commons at White Marsh in suburban Middle River four years ago.

James says he sees a massive contradiction in Trump’s much-publicized tweets laying the blame for Baltimore’s poverty, crime and rodent problems on frequent antagonist Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings. Trump, he said, should look more at what he — and specifically Kushner — could do about it. “His son-in-law owns all of this — then he can fix it. I’m pretty sure he has a lot of money,” says James, who is studying to be a medical assistant. “That’s kind of weird that you want to talk trash. … If you want to make improvements, you can make improvements.”

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[Abbey Marie]

Clearly, Trump planted that rat.

[Kathianne]

Clearly, Trump planted that rat.

No doubt. :laugh2: He won't even shake hands if he can avoid it. Yuk, rats!

[Abbey Marie]

No doubt. :laugh2: He won't even shake hands if he can avoid it. Yuk, rats!

I didn’t know that. Is Trump a germophobe?

[Kathianne]

I didn’t know that. Is Trump a germophobe?

I get it, but yes. I feel his pain:

https://www.businessinsider.com/germaphobe-trump-hates-people-coughing-and-sneezing-in-his-presence-2019-7

He's talked about it:

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-scared-germs-needs-drink-straw-avoid-contamination-671730

[STTAB]

I don't condemn the President's remarks because of 'inlaws.' Just think of Billy Bob or Hillary's brother, talk about weird families. This is not convenient though. I don't see how the President can do much about his son-in-laws family:

https://time.com/5639861/trump-baltimore-rodent-tweets-kushner-apartments/

Don't you know that everything bad is Trump's fault? Doesn't matter that black Democrats have been running Baltimore for 50 years, the racist orange bastard is the cause of all their problems.