Longtime Baltimore Resident Dr. Ben Carson: City's 'Infested with Rats, Roaches, Ticks, Mold, Lead and Violence'
President Donald Trump is once against being unfairly slammed as a “racist” by Democrats and the establishment media.
This is nothing new, as liberals have been calling him that for years (basically ever since he said he was running for president).
This time, Trump is in trouble for calling Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings’ district, which encompasses parts of Baltimore, “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
Trump is absolutely right, of course — if you don’t believe me, look no further than what Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said about Baltimore in 2015 — but because liberals love to hate Trump, they’ve been attacking him nonstop, claiming that the president’s remarks were racially motivated.
But Trump’s not a racist — he’s just a truth-teller. And a member of the president’s Cabinet who knows a thing or two about Baltimore is backing him up.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who worked for years as a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, recalled to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday the “horrible dilemma” of sending children back to their rat- and roach-infested homes.
“So, you’ve spent a good chunk of your life in Baltimore,” Carlson said at the start of the segment.
“It’s a sad city,” the host said. “I think it’s a city with a lot of promise. What does it need, do you think?”
Carson, who used to reside in Baltimore, was immediately ready with a response.
“Well, first of all, you know, as a pediatric neurosurgeon, I spent many hours, sometimes operating all night long trying to give children of Baltimore and other places around the world a second chance at life,” he replied. “And usually we were successful.”
But even so, the children he helped weren’t out of danger.
“A few days later, I was in a horrible dilemma, because some of those kids had to go back into homes in East Baltimore that were infested with rats and roaches and ticks and mold and lead and violence,” Carson said.
“And I didn’t want to send them back. Sometimes I would even consider, you know, extra tests so they could stay in the hospital an extra day or two,” he added. “But now, fortunately, God’s given me an opportunity to do something about it. And that’s one of the reasons I’m delighted to be in this administration.”
Carson went on to talk about Cummings, who caught Trump’s ire by sharply criticizing conditions at migrant detention facilities on the southern border.
“I don’t think Elijah Cummings is a bad person. I think he actually is working hard to try to help people,” Carson said. “And I certainly don’t think President Trump is a bad person. He’s working very hard — in fact, I asked him today, would you be willing to work with Elijah Cummings to bring some relief to the people of Baltimore? He said he would be happy to.”
Carson also pointed out Trump’s accomplishments as president, which include lowering the unemployment rate and reforming the federal prison system.
“These are not things that a person who is a racist would do,” he said. “And we allow ourselves to be distracted by these things.”
“And I think what President Trump was trying to say is that rather than spending your time talking about, you know, our brave border agents and investigating endlessly things that you can’t find anything on, why not spend some time working more for these people, you know, who are suffering?” Carson added.
“And that he is willing to work with them. I think that’s what we should be asking for.”
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