Pelosi To Trump: Speak To Your ‘Slumlord’ Son-In-Law About Baltimore’s Rats
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested President Trump take his questions about supposed infestation in her hometown of Baltimore to his “slumlord” son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Pelosi was asked Thursday about the president’s recent comments, in which he called Baltimore, represented in part by House Oversight Committee chair Elijah Cummings, a “rodent infested mess” where “no human” would want to live. Pelosi burned both Trump and Kushner, who is also a White House senior adviser.
“The president — this comes as no surprise — really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But maybe you could ask his son-in-law, who is a slumlord there, if he wants to talk about rodent infestations,” she said, according to The Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis.
>@SpeakerPelosi: “The president — this comes as no surprise — really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But maybe you could ask his son-in-law, who is a slumlord there, if he wants to talk about rodent infestations.”
— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) August 1, 2019
Kushner got entangled in the controversy when it was revealed that his company owns more than a dozen apartment buildings in Baltimore that have received hundreds of code violations, including mouse infestations, mold and maggots.
Alyssa Fisher is a writer at the Forward. Email her at [email protected], or follow her on Twitter at @alyssalfisher
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