A row of abandoned buildings in Baltimore (Getty Images)

The truth behind President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about Baltimore became crystal clear the moment Al Sharpton got involved and the media echoed “racism.” It’s all just another race-hustling con game from the masters of exploiting fake grievances.

When the president riffed on Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and his failure to help his constituents in West Baltimore — home to some of the most blighted ghettos in America — every liberal journalist in the country jumped to see who could be the first among those outraged by Donald Trump’s supposed “racism.” Read Full Story

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Boards cover the front end of an abandoned row of homes in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Democrats condemned Monday as racist President Donald Trump’s broadside at “rodent infested” Baltimore, but the blast also came as a reminder that most troubled major U.S. cities have been dominated for decades by one party, and it isn’t the GOP.

Cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Portland, San Francisco, and St. Louis, plagued by a host of social and economic ills, have been run nearly continuously by Democratic mayors and councils. As far as Republicans are concerned, that’s no coincidence.

“The last Republican mayor of Baltimore city left office the year I was born, and I’m a wife, mother, and a grandmother,” said Shannon Wright, a member of the Baltimore City Republican Central Committee and mayoral candidate.

The year was 1967… Read Full Story

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Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday mocked Democrats following special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress the previous day, saying Democrats should “quit lying and do their jobs.”

“Almost feel sorry for the Democrats: they said @realDonaldTrump would lose-he won; said he’d ruin our economy-it’s booming; and when all else failed said he’s a traitor! when in fact he’s a patriot making America great again,” she tweeted.

“Maybe Dems should just quit lying and do their jobs,” Sanders added. Read Full Story

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