‘President gave $16B in 2018 ALONE to Elijah Cummings’s district in federal grants’: Donald Trump’s aide Lynne Patton asks what Baltimore has done with its financial help as POTUS’ row with ‘rat-infested’ city escalates
July 30, 2019 in News by RBN Staff
via: Freedom4um
Source: Daily Mail
- Lynne Patton, a regional administrator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, appeared on Fox News to defend the president
- He was accused of racism over his tweets saying Baltimore was ‘infested with rodents’
- Trump has been engaged in a simmering feud with House Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democrat who heads the House Oversight Committee
- Earlier on Monday, Trump attacked the Rev. Al Sharpton in a tweet storm
- ‘Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites & Cops!,’ he tweeted
- Sharpton was in Baltimore Monday to defend Rep. Elijah Cummings after the president spent the weekend attacking the congressman
- Sharpton said Trump has a ‘particular venom for blacks and people of color’
- Meanwhile, Cummings released a report alleging Trump’s inauguration committee chairman tried to benefit for pushing for a deal with Saudi Arabia
An aide to President Trump said that the Baltimore region has squandered billions of dollars in federal grants given by the administration.
‘President Trump has given $16billion in 2018 alone to Elijah Cummings’ district in federal grants,’ Lynne Patton, a regional administrator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, told Fox News on Monday.
‘We have given more money in homeless funds to Baltimore than the last administration’ as well as ‘community development grants,’ according to Patton.
She then took Cummings and the city leadership, including Mayor Bernard Young, to task, asking: ‘What are you actually doing with the money so that it benefits residents in the community for once instead of deep-pocket, crooked politicians?’
MUST WATCH: @LynnePatton on Baltimore
“President @realDonaldTrump has given $16B in 2018 ALONE to Elijah Cummings’s district in federal grants…”
Where did it go? pic.twitter.com/c6xpRMBdWv
— Team Trump (@TeamTrump) July 30, 2019
Lynne Patton, a regional administrator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, accused Baltimore’s leadership of squandering billions in federal aide provided by the Trump administration
Patton made the remarks amidst the simmering feud between President Trump and House Rep. Elijah Cummings (above), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee
The president late Monday continued to tweet critically about Cummings, the Democrat who represents Maryland’s seventh congressional district
‘Elijah Cummings never even went to the Southern Border and then he screams at the very good people who, despite Congresses [sic] failure to fix the Loopholes and Asylum, make it work (crossings are way down and the Wall is being built),’ the president tweeted on Monday.
Trump then tweeted: ‘Baltimore’s numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy.’
Trump then tweeted a quote by Kimberly Klacik, a Republican and Baltimore resident. ‘I don’t know what it’s going to take,’ the quote read. ‘A lot of Democratic run cities all over America look like this, it’s not just Baltimore, unfortunately.’
Cummings’ district received just under $15.7billion in grants, benefits, and other aide from the federal government during fiscal year 2018, according to the Baltimore Sun.
The district, which includes just over half of Baltimore City, most of the majority African American areas of Baltimore County, and most of Howard County, is more well off than the administration claims.
The district is the second-wealthiest majority-black district in the country, with a $58,000 median household income, according to data journalist Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Silver cited data from the Biggest US Cities web site.
Patton was appointed to her current position after she helped run Eric Trump’s charity foundation and spent eight years working closely Trump family members.
Patton oversaw millions of dollars as a vice president at the Eric Trump Foundation, a charity effort Eric Trump suspended after his dad won the White House.
She forged close friendships and bonds with Trump family members in a variety of roles – and cut a 5 minute video during the campaign that passionately defended Donald Trump from ‘repeated and reprehensible’ attempts to connect him to ‘hate-mongering groups.’
Her comments are the latest salvo in the days long simmering feud between the president and his supporters on one side and Democratic Party officials and backers on the other.
Trump in recent days has singled out Cummings, the Democratic congressman who heads the House Oversight Committee, for what he claims are decrepit conditions in Maryland’s seventh congressional district which he represents.
The district encompasses half of Baltimore as well as surrounding suburbs.
The president has been slammed by critics for racism after he referred to Baltimore as ‘a rodent infested mess’ where ‘no human being’ would want to live.
Trump has attacked Cummings, whose committee is investigating the administration.
On Monday, the president continued to post critical tweets of Cummings.
‘Elijah Cummings never even went to the Southern Border and then he screams at the very good people who, despite Congresses [sic] failure to fix the Loopholes and Asylum, make it work (crossings are way down and the Wall is being built),’ the president tweeted on Monday.
‘Even with zero Dem help, Border getting strong!’