BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – President Trump drew a torrent of criticism from Democrats on Saturday over a series of Twitter messages aimed at U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and the Baltimore district that Cummings represents in Congress. But just a few years ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders — a candidate seeking the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination — took his own shots at Baltimore, a struggling Northeast city grappling with high rates of violent crime, drug abuse, poverty and political corruption. “Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders said during a visit to the city’s West Baltimore section in December 2015, the Baltimore Sun reported. “You would think that you were in a Third World country.” Sanders responded to the recent airing of that particular speech. “There is a big difference in what I said then, and what Trump is saying now,” he began. “Yes, I referred to Baltimore as a third world nation. But by Trump’s word’s, he implied that the city is fourth or even a fifth world nation. People should use a calculator to determine who was the most offensive. He was worst by one or two points. Mathematically, this confirms that I am much more compassionate than he is.”
