President Trump on Friday insisted he was not making a joke at Rep. Elijah Cummings’s expense after reports surfaced that the Maryland Democrat’s home in Baltimore was burglarized.
Trump was addressing his tweet from earlier Friday, in which he wrote the break-in was “really bad news” and “too bad!” The message drew accusations he was trying to humiliate Cummings, whom the president has repeatedly attacked over living conditions in Baltimore.
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“The tweet itself was really just a repeat of what I heard over the news,” Trump said when asked by reporters at the White House. “That was really not meant as a wise-guy tweet.”
Cummings said Friday the break-in took place last week and he was able to scare away the intruder after his security alarm alerted him to the incident.
The president’s tweet prompted some Republicans to say he had crossed a line, making light of Cummings’s being a victim of a crime.
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