For several days now, President Trump has attacked Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings on Twitter and in press sprays, calling him a "brutal bully” and calling his district in Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and “far worse and more dangerous” than what we see on the Southern border. A lot of ink has been spilled about why the President is doing this, with many calling the tirade racist, and criticizing the President for using such strong language about an American city. So why don't we just go to the spoken word and evaluate what was actually said? Is the only reason the President is attacking Rep. Cummings because he is Black? "I don't see it," Newell said on his program Tuesday morning. "Trump telegraphed in the first sentence why he was 'going there.'"Reading from the tweet, Newell quoted Trump as having said "Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men and women for Border Control about the conditions at the Southern border.""Is that a pretty good indication of why he's going after Cummings?" Newell continues. "It seems as though he made no bones about it, he laid it right out why he was going after Cummings. I've witnessed those hearings, and Cummins has treated pretty much everyone that's come in from immigration with a lack of respect and civility that Committee should dictate." Trump continued: "His Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous - his district is considered the worst in the United States of America."
"Now, I don't know if that's factually correct, in fact, my instincts tell me its probably not," Newell responded. Reading again from the President: "The border is clean, efficient and well run, just very crowded.""I don't think that's true either," Newell said, "I think that's an overreach on the part of the President." "Where is all this money going?" Trump asked in his tweet. "How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!""There's probably some meat on the bones there," Newell said, after looking at some parts of Cummings' orbit that not many in the mainstream media have demonstrated a desire or ability to do. When the President talks about how Cummings is corrupt and unethical, what was that all about?"Trump doesn't telegraph like that for nothing," Newell said. "Lo and behold, recently, there's been an ethics or IRS complaint filed against Cummings... it turns out a non-profit and a for-profit consulting firms are both run by Mrs. Cummings, Maya Rockeymoore, who is also Chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party. So she runs two entities, a non-profit called the Center for Global Policy Solutions, and a for-profit firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC. Now, who do you think is donating money to the non-profit?""It just so happens that as Chairman of the Oversight Committee, Cummings has a lot of authority over major corporations in this country. Global Policy Solutions received more than $6.2 million in grants between 2013 and 2016. Several of the non-profit groups' financial backers include Google, JP Morgan, Prudential and on and on, all of whom have been before the Oversight Committee. The largest contributor was the Robert Wood Johnson foundation - guess who that is, ever heard of that little company Johnson & Johnson? Turns out they gave a total of $5.5 million to Rockeymoore's consulting firm, and an additional $5.2 million to her non-profit group in 2017. Currently, there are five board members of the foundation that Rockeymoore runs, including the foundation's Chairman of the Board, trustees Roger Fein, who previously served as corporate VP and general counsel of Johnson and Johnson."