Rep. Elijah Cummings, a key Trump opponent, dies at 68

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Trump, died early Thursday of complications from longstanding health issues, his office said. He was 68.

Trump responded by criticizing the Democrat’s district as a “rodent-infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.” The comments came weeks after Trump drew bipartisan condemnation following his calls for Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the U.S. “right now,” and go back to their “broken and crime-infested countries.

Cummings was an early supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential bid in 2008. And by 2016, Cummings was the senior Democrat on the House Benghazi Committee, which he said was “nothing more than a taxpayer-funded effort to bring harm to Hillary Clinton’s campaign” for president.Throughout his career, Cummings used his fiery voice to highlight the struggles and needs of inner-city residents.

In a statement, his widow, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, chairwoman of Maryland’s Democratic Party, said “Congressman Cummings was an honorable man who proudly served his district and the nation with dignity, integrity, compassion and humility. He worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity and that our nation’s diversity was our promise, not our problem.

It steeled Cummings to prove that counselor wrong. He became not only a lawyer, but one of the most powerful orators in the statehouse, where he entered office in 1983. He rose to become the first black House speaker pro tem. He would begin his comments slowly, developing his theme and raising the emotional heat until it became like a sermon from the pulpit.

RIP

Good riddance. He was a thief to his constituents in Maryland and did nothing for them.

Wow.... the amount of times I’ve seen him take control of situations I wouldn’t even dare to want to be in. So sad. He was a fighter for sure

A great leader 🤣 fight for humanity 🤣. He fought for his pockets. God rest his soul.

Rest in peace Elijah Cummings. 😞😟

Sincerest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Nice

The condition he left his district in is shameful. Can ppl die of shame?

A huge State Funeral. Now someone needs to pick up the reigns of impeachment!

I am saddened by this. He was a fighter for humanity. My condolences to his family and our country.

RIP good man.

A great leader! Hard worker. An American patriot.

He was an example of what every elected official shouldn’t be. termlimits

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Good riddance

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