Article snippet: ‘‘The president says about Congressman Cummings’ district - ” CNN anchor Victor Blackwell paused for 10 long seconds as he considered President Trump’s latest tweets targeting a lawmaker of color Saturday. Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings’s district in Baltimore ‘‘is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,’’ the president had tweeted. ‘‘No human being would want to live there.’’ Blackwell emphasized that word ‘‘human’’ when he launched back into an emotional dissection of the president’s words. His voice shook. His eyes got teary. The attack was personal. ‘‘You know who did [live there], Mr. President?’’ Blackwell said. ‘‘I did. From the day I was brought home from the hospital to the day I left for college. And a lot of people I care about still do.’’ Trump’s tirade toward an African-American congressman who has led investigations into the Trump administration as chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee came two weeks after the president posted racist tweets telling four minority congresswomen to ‘‘go back’’ to the ‘‘crime infested’’ places they came from. All of the lawmakers are U.S. citizens, and three were born in the United States. Speaking Saturday morning on ‘‘CNN Newsroom,’’ which he hosts with Christi Paul, Blackwell - who is black - took note of the similar language deployed against those congresswomen and, now, against Cummings. ‘‘Infested’’ is typically used in connection with rodents and insects, he said, but Trump seemed t... Link to the full article to read more