>> The big story this week is Donald Trump targeting Representative Elijah Cummings.
And his big argument is that Elijah Cummings is the reason for crime in Baltimore.
He has referred to Baltimore as rodent infested.
Every negative word you can imagine, he has used to describe Baltimore and he's blamed
it on Representative Cummings.
Well, he's decided to double down on that today.
And so I wanna show you how he doubled down, and then I'm gonna give you the reality of
what's actually infested.
And it's related to Trump.
Take a look.
>> People are living in hell in Baltimore.
They're largely African-American.
They have a large African-American population and they really appreciate what I'm doing,
and they've let me know it.
They really appreciate it.
And by the way, the numbers just came out.
Unemployment for African-Americans is the lowest it's been, the best numbers, meaning
in the history of our country, the lowest in the history of our country.
But people have called from Baltimore thanking me so much, because all that money that's
been spent over 20 years has been stolen and wasted by people like Elijah Cummings.
>> So he accuses Representative Elijah Cummings of theft.
He argues that Elijah Cummings is stealing from Baltimore.
So just remember that every time Donald Trump decides he wants to take up his meetings at
Mar-a-Lago or play golf at Mar-a-Lago, he is draining resources from the US taxpayers.
So he can go play around with a few balls on a course somewhere, right?
>> Every time he has a rally in a random city that he refuses to reimburse for police protection,
he is stealing.
>> That's theft, right?
>> It's just like it was two seconds ago that the right wing was freaking out over Ilhan
Omar and Rashida Tlaib for criticizing America.
And just two seconds later, Trump is like, America, it's a hell hole.
Who would wanna live there in this American city?
>> He campaigned on that, gotta make it great again because it's so bad that the Blacks
are running free.
>> The Blacks.
>> So let's talk a little bit about crime.
Because Donald Trump argues that, hey, there's a lot of crime in Baltimore and it's all Representative
Cummings' fault.
Okay, first of all, there's definitely issues with poverty in Baltimore.
And I've made this point before, it's not just Baltimore.
There is poverty throughout the country, right?
The wealth disparity, the income disparity, that gap continues to widen.
And it continues to do so under Trump's leadership.
And so he can be boastful about the unemployment numbers if he wants.
But all it takes is one followup question, a little more of a deep dive into the quality
of those jobs, and it tells a completely different story, a completely different picture.
Wages have remained stagnant.
Those jobs are part time jobs, temporary jobs.
They're not paying a living wage to the workers.
And it's amazing to me that he keeps touting the economy.
And his supporters just buy into it, when they know, you know what your bills look like.
You know what your paycheck looks like.
You know what your financial stability looks like.
The economy has definitely improved for a very small group of people in this country.
And it's the top 1%, which got a $2 trillion tax cut, while taxes for other people went
up, by the way.
Okay, so there's that, but let's talk about crime.
So just to remind you, Trump tweeted the following over the weekend.
Representative Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the
great men and 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.
As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient, and
well run.
We all know that's not true.
Just very crowded.
Cumming 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
and filthy place.
You know what has actually turned out to be a very dangerous place?
Trump Tower which has been- >> Explain.
>> There's been a lot of white collar criminals living in Trump Tower.
Many of them have been arrested, many of them have faced some consequences for it.
But I mean, that's his property.
Trump, what's up?
Why is there so much crime tied to the Trump Tower?
Why are there so many criminals living in Trump Tower?
I'll give you some examples.
>> One could say it's crime infested.
>> It seems to be crime infested.
So hat tip to the wonderful gentleman who put this thread together on Twitter, and we're
gonna share his tweets right now.
So let's go to the first one.
Representative Elijah Cummings, I'm sorry.
On the subject of #CrimeInfested, a thread.
Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman owned and lived in a condo on the 43rd floor
of Trump Tower.
Currently in prison for money laundering, bank fraud, tax fraud, witness tampering and
conspiracy against the United States.
Zeddy is the individual who's putting this thread together.
Let's go to the next one.
By the way, I didn't even include all of his tweets.
>> No, you can't.
>> It's a very long thread.
>> It's a very long thread, yeah.
>> It's spectacular.
>> Helly Nahmad owns the entire 51st floor of Trump Tower.
Pleaded guilty and received 12-month prison sentence in 2014 for operating an illegal,
multi-million dollar gambling business out of Trump Tower, crime infested.
Case tied to notorious Russian mafia boss of all bosses.
That's just another example, let's give you some more.
Vadim Trincher, former condo owner on the 63rd floor of Trump Tower.
Mastermind of Trump Tower gambling ring with Nahmad.
Five years in federal prison and $20 million in asset forfeiture for racketeering.
And then he had to correct that tweet, so small correction.
Correction to this tweet, Ivankov hid out in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, not Trump
Tower Moscow.
Trump Tower Moscow is the unrealized project that Trump pursued with the Russian government
during the Trump campaign, then lied about it.
And I mean, the list goes on and on.
I'm not gonna read through every single one of them.
But if you want, we can just show you as we continue having this conversation.
And please check out the thread, because it is very detailed.
And it's not just about what happened in Trump Tower.
It's about crimes that Trump committed himself, including inflating his assets in order to
obtain loans, which is fraud.
Deflating his assets in order to save on his taxes, which is tax fraud.
>> Using his own charitable foundation to enrich himself, I mean the list goes on and
on.
Trump University, which defrauded these students.
He had to pay a $25 million settlement as a result of that.
I mean, this man is the definition, the epitome of crime.
And he is going around arguing that other people are stealing or other people are behind
crime in America.
No, you're behind crime in America.
I mean, he's breaking the law at the border right now, and still separating children at
the border from their parents.
>> And unfortunately he didn't invent this rhetoric that crime only matters when it's
poor people.
He just gets to swim in it.
He got to swim in it, and let it just wash all over him, all the way to the White House.
But yeah, the problem is there's so much crime, that the feds have now started looking into
specifically these huge purchases of fancy condos and apartments in New York City, because
there is so much crime behind a lot of these purchases.
>> Yeah, I mean I think it's- >> It's wild, right?
>> Any luxury condo building in midtown Manhattan is probably just like a hot house of white
collar criminals from all over the world.
I mean, from this thread, just noticing in Trump Tower, that Baby Doc Duvalier had a
condo at Trump Tower.
>> Baby Doc.
>> The Butcher of Haiti.
>> Baby Doc had a condo.
>> My God, it was like a cornucopia of the worst people on Earth, all of them.
But I mean, again, it's probably true of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, as it is true
of almost any luxury condo in Midtown Manhattan, just infested with white collar criminals
all over the place.
>> R Kelly was living at Trump Tower in Chicago.
>> R Kelly, yeah.
He was holding women in the condo in Trump Tower.
>> Yeah, and that condo specifically that Baby Doc owned, I think it has a long history
of really shady ownership.
It's a really fascinating, I feel like I-
>> There should be a documentary on it?
>> There should be.
>> On Baby Doc.
>> Yes, it's just- >> You would think that-
>> All the FIFA criminals were there.
Chuck Blazer, who was the American guy who went to jail for the FIFA scandal.
He had two condos, one for himself, and one for all his cats.
That was a very famous story from a few years ago.
>> Ugh!
>> You would think, the man who- >> He had cats-
>> Sorry.
>> He had just a whole apartment just for his cats.
>> That's ridiculous.
You would think the man who is just so tough on crime, he just hates crime, he just cannot
stand anything, anywhere that there is crime, would at the very least be like, you know
what?
Y'all gotta stop paying for these in cash.
>> Yeah.
>> At the least.
>> Right, I mean- >> Something is up.
We can't, at the very least, cuz I don't like crime.
It's not gonna happen under my house.
>> I would love to ask him if he felt this negative reaction to crime when he made illegal
hush money payments to porn stars he was sleeping with, the hush money payments right before
the election.
I don't know, how did he feel about that crime?
I mean, come on, he's a criminal.
>> Right, because- >> He's a criminal.
>> Guess who else owned an apartment in Trump Tower?
His former lawyer.
>> Michael Cohen, yeah, yeah.
He is, yeah.
>> There's so many.
I mean, again, please go check out that thread.
I love how it's just a focus on a building that literally has Trump's name on it.
>> Yeah.
>> And it's crime infested.