President Trump honors Cummings in tweet after attacking him all summer
President Donald Trump on Thursday mourned the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings in a deferential tweet that diverged markedly from the racially charged insults he had hurled at the Democratic lawmaker over the summer.
That post from the president came less than three months after Trump began unleashing a torrent of vitriolic social media posts and public statements targeting the Maryland representative, who oversaw several investigations into the administration as chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee.
Trump also characterized Cummings’ predominantly black, Baltimore-based congressional district as “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” where “no human being” would want to live. That same week, Trump faced bipartisan criticism for his seemingly glib response to the news that Cummings’ residence in West Baltimore had been burglarized. “Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad!” Trump tweeted at the time.
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