FLASHBACK: Bernie Sanders Compared West Baltimore to ‘A Third World Country’ By Tyler O’Neil
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On Friday, President Donald Trump caused a storm by responding to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)’s accusation that Border Patrol engages in “child abuse.” Trump faulted Cummings for the poverty and rodents in his congressional district — an attack that liberals everywhere loudly condemned as racist.
Well, if that was racist, so was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). He toured West Baltimore — Cummings’ district — in December 2015, to see the area where Freddie Gray was arrested. At that time, Sanders compared West Baltimore to a “Third World Country.”
“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders said, according to The Baltimore Sun. “You would think that you were in a Third World country.”
Sanders got more specific. “Residents of Baltimore’s poorest boroughs have lifespans shorter than people living under dictatorship in North Korea. That is a disgrace,” he tweeted.
Of course, Sanders attacked West Baltimore in order to advocate more of his openly socialist “Revolution,” while Trump attacked it in order to shoot down Cummings’s accusations. Even so, from the deafening outrage against Trump, it seems Sanders must also be a horrific racist.
Yet Sanders rushed to condemn the “racist president,” seemingly oblivious to the fact that by insinuating Trump’s tweets were racist, Sanders was also outing himself as a horrific racist.
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