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CrazyJoe
If Kushy were ever to be convicted of a crime as some people have asserted he will, an appropriate work-release program would have him working to clean his apartments of filth and vermin.
Blacklabel
Wonder how much the taxpayers paid for her alcohol bill this time?
interesting thing. if Kushner is a slumlord then Baltimore has to be a “slum”. That’s racist. It’s actually avibrant, diverse, safe, clean community run by competent and compassionate Dem leaders.
Guess whe was on vacay and didn’t get the memo.
Ike-in-Tokyo-from-89
“... sent to the New World”??? Same accommodations, dining and perks as the Congressional Black Caucus?
TheLongTermer
Dems always blame racism for their corrupt dysfunctional and incompetent failures at governance. Just look at all the hell the former mayor of New Orleans during hurricane Katrina raised, but is now in prison for corruption. He blamed the federal government, generals. and just all sorts of buffoonery during that crisis. They have a long track record of this, and having a grip on their constituents vote, as many vote them in again, even after serving in prison. Marion Barry takes the prize.
bass4funk
Yeah, we get it, it’s Nancy’s hometown, she hasn’t lived there for about 60 years and her family moved to California and why would she care? She’ll criticize, but in the end, nothing will get done, it never does for Democrat run cities. Stupidly attacking Kushner won’t change or fix Baltimore’s high crime, infrastructure and social problems.
theFu
There's plenty of blame for issues in every city, not just Democrat controlled cities.
But the difference is that it is harder to point to specific policies for Republican run cities which have a negative impact on the cities ability to be competitive in taxes, high salaries, lower crime rates and competitive regional, national, and global businesses.
lincolnman
in 2005 Jared's father, Charles Kushner, was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering. He served 14 months in federal prison and an additional ten months in a halfway house.
The Prosecutor in that case was Repub Chris Christie who said it was "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes he prosecuted more than a decade"
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/chris-christie-jared-kushner-father/index.html
Now junior is following in his father's footsteps as a slumlord - and as a member of the Trump Crime Family.
And he'll end up just like his father - in an orange jump suit...
Texas A&M Aggie
Pelosi now defending the indefensible. Like him or hate him, Donald Trump is a master at the art of brand marketing. Add the democrat leadership approving the garbage and rat-infested squalor that is Baltimore -- a city that has been democrat controlled since 1968 -- to a growing list of other things he's forced the democrat socialists to support in less than three years (illegal invaders from nations around the world flooding over our southern border, the anti-Semitic "squad", after-birth abortions, etc.).
Everything PTDJT criticizes, the democrat socialists embrace. The great thing about all this is they don't see that he is making fools of them and that party's supporters on an almost daily basis. Liberals have become so predictable.
Blacklabel
So Jared is now responsible for the crimes of his father?
DACA kids were illegally brought to America by their parents. Yet are not responsible at all for their criminal parents and should be allowed to stay and get citizenship after a criminal act?
liberal hypocrisy.
bass4funk
Ok, so what does that have to do with the unbelievable poverty, high crime and how Democrats mismanaged and destroyed that once great city.
Yes and Nadler will be the next US President.
Blacklabel
Pelosi called at least parts of Baltimore a “slum”. But that’s cool, right?
lincolnman
Oh yea, he's making them look like fools - by calling them "infantroopen" and "lawmurkers"....
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-infantroopen-pentagon-speech-us-military-mark-esper-a9021726.html
Time for Donnie to just admit the onset of Alzheimer's and step aside....
Blacklabel
Always some insignificant criticism unrelated to the topic at hand.
Like the other President who said we have 57 states in the USA, some things are just insignificant mistakes or even "typos".
lincolnman
Sure, he's just brilliant - why don't you go for a vacation at the Trump Atlantic City Taj Mahal and Casino? Maybe you could fly there on Trump Airlines? And while there, enjoy a Trump steak?
Oh, that's right, those have all failed...
Well. you can still buy a Trump tie - made for especially for you by Chinese workers in Shanghai, instead of American garment workers....and there's no tariff on it!
lincolnman
"My father was born in Germany."
"The kidney has a very special place in the heart."
"Covfefe"
"Look into the oranges of the Mueller investigation."
Of the Revolutionary War in 1776: “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”
I could go on...but why beat a dead horse...especially one with such an advanced case of dementia...
Kuya 808
If Pelosi and Cummings want to make Trump eat some crow, then they should disprove his statements with clear examples of how well the city of Baltimore has been run for the past 30 years. Showing how the Democratic leadership of Baltimore have made the lives of their most vulnerable citizens better and how what Trump says is false, would be a great way to start. They could also show how the 3.2 billion dollars in federal grants the city has received over the past 10 years has been wisely spent for the benefit of the people of Baltimore. That'll shut him up.
arrestpaul
Pelosi defends Baltimore hometown, says Kushner a 'slumlord' - Which means that Pelosi, and many internet posters, accept the fact that Baltimore has a large area of slums. Pelosi, and Cummings, have had decades to lift the poor residents of Baltimore out of poverty. I wonder what they are waiting for? More federal money?
Pelosi, Cummings, and the Democrats who have been controlling the city of Baltimore for decades seem shocked that someone would finally notice how badly the poorer residents of Baltimore have been repeatedly treated by elected Democrat, after elected Democrat, after elected Democrat.
lincolnman
Ignore my comments, post something different.....OK;
Maybe they're waiting for Maryland Repub Gov Larry Hogan to exert some leadership...and tell us what mulit-millionaire Jared Kushner has done to fix his slumlord properties?
And yet the people there keep electing them, showing they clearly know their best hope are the Dems vs the "Top 1%" Repubs... Would you elect a Repub when their President said your community was a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and a “very dangerous & filthy place?” Or who called Neo Nazis and white supremacists; "some are very fine people?"
And if you want to see real poverty, visit Mississippi, the poorest state in the US - led by Repub Gov Phil Bryant...
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/080116/americas-poorest-states-2016.asp
bass4funk
How about Cummings and Young trying to avoid running from the spotlight into something that all the other previous Democrat politicians have failed to do and that is to take care of the city of Baltimore and do it properly. That would be realistic in real leadership.
Well, then they apparently don’t know, because the Democrats have not done anything for over the last 50 years and yet they still vote for these stupid politicians, that is political ignorance and the Democrats make sure to perpetuate the myth to keep the good people dependent on Democrat field policy by demonizing Republicans as just race haters.
Well, would you rather elect a Democrat that promises to fix everything and never does and never has for so many years just in order to get votes to pretend that the candidate is politically correct and uses identity politics as a way to become nominated?
You have a Democrat politician that essentially says the same thing I thought Baltimore basically calling it the dump in a nicer sense and as usual the Democrats to dismiss it because liberals are allowed to say whatever they want about any ethnic community, but conservatives cannot because of a conservative point out the obvious truth that he or she is a racist by default, define ignorance.
But here’s the problem, we’re not talking about Mississippi that granted it has its own share of problems, but we are talking about Baltimore the so-called city that is supposed to be pristine and clean and the beacon of hope of life and prosperity which it once was and as with other Democrat lead states the poverty is beyond severe, but for the Democrats their top priority is to either chase rabbit down holes and try to impeach this president or to try to help illegal immigrants come into the country and with the highest priority help illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the country over the poor, hungry and impoverished people of the city of Baltimore.
Serrano
On Thursday, she referred to ( the ) city as, "My Baltimore."
I'm not going to blame Pelosi for Baltimore's problems. But she is largely to blame for SF's problems.
Hey, if she claims it's her Baltimore how come she's not doing anything to improve the situation there?
Blacklabel
“drug Infested” says racist Cummings.
lincolnman
Dodge. What's the Repub Governor done/doing? Kushner? Kushner?
More insults for people of color...Trumpers just can't help themselves.
The people have already answered that question - yes...
Uh, re-read, we were talking about Trump's "very fine people" quote...you know, Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists...
And once more, tell us what Maryland Repub Gov Larry Hogan...and Mississippi Repub Gov Phil Bryant are doing to help?
plasticmonkey
And why are we talking about Baltimore in the first place?
Because Trump doesn't like Cummings' investigations into Trump's finances and his criticisms of Trump's border strategy.
Serrano
Sounds like the Trump family are part of the problem and not the solution.
The Democrats have been running these decrepit cities and they are not the solution.
And why are we talking about Baltimore in the first place?
It's a Democrat-run s-hole.
Question: If Trump should be impeached, why aren't the Democrats voting en masse to impeach him?
plasticmonkey
False. We're talking about Baltimore because Trump is a thin-skinned con artist.
Some people buy the con. Some don't.
bass4funk
Lincoln, who’s the mayor of Baltimore? Who’s the governor and which politician resides in that State that’s a civil rights icon? Please, let us have a conversation about that. If Kushner created or legislated a policy that failed or was part of the city legislature, I would talk about it, but since he didn’t, wasn’t, we can stick to the people that have presided over that city. Cummings and Young.
Where? How?
Then they have to live with that, if they want to vote for the same politicians, then I agree they shouldn’t complain about getting the same results
We know, you bring it up every 3 minutes, so now back to Bernie, explain why is it ok for a Democrat-socialist to call and I quote: “Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation, You would think that you were in a Third World country.
So then by your own standards that would make Bernie a racist as well. Remember, like with Trump, he’s criticizing a predominantly black community.
As usual, you can’t say anything because you are once again, backed in a corner, so typical. Tell you what, when a thread comes on and the topic is about Mississippi and Bryant, I will debate you all you want, but since the thread is about Baltimore, let’s stay on point, that would make everyone on JT happy.
bass4funk
We have been there back and forth a thousand times, Trump has been unjustifiably going after the President for so much debunked crap and now has a hissy fit because the President counterpunched him? Give me a break!
plasticmonkey
Some perspective please.
Sanders was pointing out Baltimore's problems because he wanted to improve the lives of its residents. Sanders has a long record of dedication to fighting poverty. Trump does not.
Trump is pointing out Baltimore's problems because he can't stand criticism, especially from a black person.
plasticmonkey
Who's having a hissy fit?
Presidents are supposed to set a higher standard. Trump demeans not only his office but standard human discourse.
Trump is thin skinned. He's a wimp and a coward. Total loser.
plasticmonkey
How do you know? The financial records are still forthcoming.
bass4funk
Some perspective please.
Trump did the same, can’t be disputed. I was in Baltimore 20 years ago and it was a mess then.
Trump is doing the same would even go down there to assess the city, don’t see anything racist about that, in fact, it’s a good thing. No other politician gives a ....
Don’t see any results like his free for all, No results or who will pay for all of his free stuff.
So let him try, obviously, the Democrats can’t do it, they have 50 years and failed, miserably!
Weak argument, he couldn’t stand criticism from Pelosi, Schumer, Bush, McCain, Romney, Kasich, Fiorino, Napolitano, Joe and Mika, Acosta...all White, men and women, time to get another argument, the race card isn’t working anymore, it’s played out like a used piece of chewing gum.
bass4funk
Cummings and the media.
So do the politicians and the media.
So do the Democrats....and some Republicans...
So are the Democrats because they tweet back, losers is an understatement.
Hey...I’m on your side! I want the Democrats to waste as much time on this as possible, occupy themselves with chasing after Trump, please, do more, a lot more. ROFL!
lincolnman
Dodge #2 - do you call the Mayor or Congressman when you have a problem with your apartment, or do you call the owner? Kushner? Kushner?
See. Look.
Then Donnie should lay off the racist tweets...
I bring it up because you continue to dodge it...
What would make everyone happy is for you to answer the question about what the Repub Governor of Maryland is doing to help the largest city in his state....we'll be waiting...unless you're in a corner and can't answer it.
Blacklabel
When your apartment is filthy and rat infested you clean it. Filth and trash on the ground outside is not an apartment or landlord issue. It’s the city who you pay taxes to.
bass4funk
Kushner is not responsible for an entire city with a population of 620K
Funny, none of the Democrats take the complaint of its citizens seriously, sad.
Sanders and everyone else that criticizes the city because these are inherently racist people.
No, dodge, you just don’t want to admit, you got caught and you know and by your own standard that Sanders was racist in criticizing a black town. Funny how black conservatives CAN’T criticize a city or town without being labeled a racist, if you’re liberal and or liberal white you can criticize all day, but conservative, you cannot, so how about if you’re a black conservative like Larry Elder or Niger Innes or Kevin Jackson, are you a racist for criticizing Baltimore as well? What are the criteria’s for allowing to say something?
You never answered mine, so until you do, I’ll gracefully pass.
lincolnman
Who cleans it before you move in? Who takes care of it after you clean it and they come back? So what's the multi-millionaire slumlord done? Kushner? Kushner?
He's responsible for his filthy, rat-infested apartments - so what's he done?
Trump's racist tweets - he should stop....
Dodge #4...
No problem, hope you can get out of that corner...
bass4funk
In the city that is run by a bunch of negligent Democrats that for over 50 years did nothing to clean up the city.
Not for the 620K residents that live there.
Bernie as well.
I understand, we all hate being in a corner. Lol
But I hope you can get out of that corner...
Blacklabel
wait a minute...now Trump was right and it IS a rat infested mess. Just instead of Cummings being responsible as the elected leader of the area, or the city mayor who doesnt get the trash outside cleaned up, or the people who dont clean their own apartments, its Jared Kushner to blame?
These goal posts moving all over the place.
Blacklabel
So now people are paying money to move in to rat infested dirty apartments? No, im quite sure its clean when they move in. Its what happens while they live there, inside their own walls, that is the problem. Outside, thats the mayor and Dem elected officials who get money to provide basic sanitation services. Where is that money going if trash isnt picked up?
bass4funk
Ridiculous, I know.
Exactly, we don’t like being cornered or confronted, so we will just shift the blame and hope no one notices, but we know they do.
lincolnman
It looks like the Trumpers here need a definition of a slumlord....
*A slumlord (or slum landlord) is a derogatory term for a landlord, generally an absentee landlord with more than one property, who attempts to maximize profit by minimizing spending on property maintenance, often in deteriorating neighborhoods, and to tenants that they can intimidate. Severe housing shortages allow slumlords to charge higher rents, and when they can get away with it, to break rental law.*
That's your boy Jared...Slumlord Extraordinaire....
And for the fourth time, what has HE done to help Baltimore and clean up his slum properties?
Kestrel
Cummings himself back in the 90s, described Baltimore as " Drug INFESTED".
Also his residence was burglarized this year.
Oh my.
Kestrel
Cummings has done nothing to clean up and improve his city. Hes a professional scammer - another Democrat lifer in "public service", enriching himself.
bass4funk
He wasn’t in charge of the city, wasn’t responsible for commerce or its finances, wasn’t the mayor or governor.
Exactly! He’s a smart man, he knows his city is a dump, now let’s see if he has the will to clean it and provide for its citizens, so far the Democrats have never done that, but they sure want their votes.
Yes, they are all talk and no action in a minute these Democrat leaders want to be confronted with the ugly truth that they have completely destroyed a once great city, shame on them shame on the city Council and shame on their leaders.
Blacklabel
HE is not an elected official in Baltimore who got billions in tax funds to deal with this. He has done nothing because he was not elected to do anything.
Blacklabel
“Vote for me one more time. Give me money again to fix the problem. I will, this time, I promise”. - Dems to marginalized groups.
lincolnman
Four tries, and the Trumpers here can't answer a simple question - what's Slumlord Kushner done to improve his buildings and help his tenants?
So the slumlord keeps victimizing the poor and scamming the local government - fattening his pockets at the expense of people of color.
Slumlord, thy name is Kushner....
Racist Daddy, racist son-in-law.....
Runs in the family....
Slumlord Kushner to his tenants...
bass4funk
Because it’s not pertinent to the story, Cummings is, but I understand you don’t want to answer because you can’t because you Dems have completely screwed up that city.
Black leaders are pocketing and profiting nicely at the expense of people of color.
Racist Socialist Democrat
The Dems have the party that created it.
In a city run by Cummings and the great big scandals and empty promises of the Democrat party.
Blacklabel
Yeah “lack of property maintenance” causes filth and rats and trash in the streets. Nice try.
lincolnman
A Slumlord renting filthy, unsafe properties in Baltimore and it's not pertinent - now that's funny. Why don't you just admit that Slumlord Jared hasn't done anything except pocket money and stiff his tenants - you know, like his father-in-law does....
Thank you - these racist comments just confirm what everyone already knows...
Yes, Trump is kind'a a Racist, Socialist Democrat - his tweets are certainly racist, his govt handouts to farmers definitely socialist, and he has given lots of campaign money to Democrats...yea, I agree with that...
In run-down buildings owned by Trump's son-in-law...
And why no answer to what Repub Gov Larry Hogan is doing? We've been waiting....
bass4funk
A Slumlord renting filthy, unsafe properties in Baltimore and it's not pertinent -
Not as pertinent as a mayor and a Democrat legislative officials that run the city and run it in the ground.
Government • TypeMayor–council • BodyBaltimore City Council • MayorJack Young (D) • City CouncilCouncil members
Brandon M. Scott(President)
Zeke Cohen (1)
Vacant, as of May 6, 2019 (2)
Ryan Dorsey (3)
Bill Henry (4)
Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer(5)
Sharon Green Middleton (6)
Leon F. Pinkett, III (7)
Kristerfer Burnett (8)
John T. Bullock (9)
Edward L. Reisinger(10)
Eric Costello (11)
Robert Stokes Sr. (12)
Shannon Sneed (13)
Mary Pat Clarke (14)
• Houses of DelegatesDelegates
Frank M. Conaway, Jr.(40) (D)
Nick Mosby (40) (D)
Melissa Wells (40) (D)
Tony Bridges (41) (D)
Dalya Attar (41) (D)
Samuel I. Rosenberg(41) (D)
Curt Anderson (43) (D)
Maggie McIntosh (43) (D)
Regina T. Boyce (43) (D)
Keith E. Haynes (44A) (D)
Talmadge Branch (45) (D)
Cheryl Glenn (45) (D)
Stephanie Smith (45) (D)
Luke Clippinger (46) (D)
Robbyn Lewis (46) (D)
Brooke Lierman (46) (D)
• State SenateState senators
Antonio Hayes (40) (D)
Jill P. Carter (41) (D)
Dr. Mary Washington(43) (D)
Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (44) (D)
Cory V McCray (45) (D)
Bill Ferguson (46) (D)
• U.S. HouseRepresentatives
Dutch Ruppersberger(2) (D)
John Sarbanes (3) (D)
Elijah Cummings (7) (D)
“All Democrat” and zero results, these are the people that are responsible for the squalor and decline of Baltimore. A bunch of elected officials that depended on the very people they’re screwing over, shameful.
or like the Democrats have been doing, daily..
Nothing new about Democrats institutionalized racism.
Then so is Sanders
In a run down city Cummings and Young preside over.
plasticmonkey
Everybody took the bait. Why are we even talking about Baltimore?
Why do our news topics have to be decided by a petulant man-child president?
lincolnman
And the title of this article is Pelosi defends Baltimore hometown, says Kushner a 'slumlord'...
And the Trumpers here on five occasions can't answer the question; What's Kushner doing to clean up his slum properties?
All they do is dodge...
I guess that's what happens when they get caught in a corner...
Blacklabel
I didn’t dodge anything. Answered it already.
Jared Kushner is doing NOTHING. (Because this has nothing to do with him despite how desperately you want him to be involved)
Blacklabel
Is screaming “racist!” or deflection of “someone connected to Trump by marriage is a slumlord” going to get a Dem in the White House in 2020? Nope.
But those Dems attacking and crapping all over the “Obama/Biden legacy”? Just re-elects Trump if all you got is “racist!”
lincolnman
Hah, yes, you did admit it - the slumlord property owner has done NOTHING to help his tenants live in a more sanitary and safe environment - he's completely blown them off - took their money and ran.
I guess he learned that trick from Daddy-in-law stiffing all his contractors....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
Donnie and Jared - one discriminates against people of color by not renting to them, and the other rents them unsafe, unsanitary slumlord properties...
Nothing but racist crooks....
bass4funk
Why why would anyone know? How would we know? We don’t have his number, we can’t call or ask him what roll or what he did or didn’t do. Now having said that, the reality is a few properties is a small problem compared to a larger problem which is the care or desperate lack of it regarding the city. But I feel like this, if Democrats still feel they don’t need to address the issue, then it’s up to the people, if they are happy with living in filth and squalor with rats, roaches and all the other disgusting junk, then it’s on them. They are the ones that have to live there and they are the ones that have to deal with it.
All they do is dodge...
It’s the liberal thing to do
I guess that's what happens when they get caught in a corner.
bass4funk
The Democrats took millions, ripped off the communities and did nothing to improve the lives of the people, but they did get their votes, so a win for the crooked politicians.
And while the Democrats continue to deflect and place the blame somewhere else, they get mad at the President for calling these politicians out and rightfully so.
That darn Sanders!
extanker
Well I don't know about Kushner being a slum lord or not, but I did live near Baltimore for about 5 years and visited it quite often. I can say Trump's description of the city isn't wrong. It's not a nice place.
And of course Pelosi can say where she grew up was nice, there's rich, clean neighborhoods in every crappy city.
lincolnman
Another dodge - is it so hard to do a little research to back up your obviously false claims?
See above.
Your words - you said he has done "NOTHING" - quite a damning statement - and very true...
Thanks for agreeing with me....
Thanks for agreeing with me....
Be careful as the corner closes in on you...
Kestrel
Pelosi is a disgrace.
bass4funk
Of the Democrats that have ruined that city? That’s Wikipedia is there for.
So is Young and Cummings more just all talk and zero action?
Thanks for agreeing with me....
And while the Democrats continue to deflect and place the blame somewhere else, they get mad at the President for calling these politicians out and rightfully so.
Thanks for agreeing with me....
Be careful as the corner closes in on you...
To put it lightly
lincolnman
Dodge #4.....
You said Kushner has done NOTHING at his slums - I just agreed with you.... Changing your mind now?
Thanks for agreeing with me...
Yours closed yesterday....
Trump is orange, to put it brightly....