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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJared Kushner owns lots of apartments in the Baltimore area. Some were infested with mice.
In a now-viral tweetstorm on Saturday, President Trump characterized Rep. Elijah E. Cummingss Baltimore-based congressional district as a rodent infested mess where no human would want to live.
His criticism rang with a particular irony in Baltimore County, where the presidents son-in-law Jared Kushner owns more than a dozen apartment complexes that have been cited with hundreds of code violations and, critics say, provide sub-standard housing to lower income tenants.
In an interview Saturday, Baltimore County Executive John A. Olszewski Jr. condemned Trumps comments as an attack on basic decency.
It is certainly ironic that the presidents own son-in-law was complicit in contributing to some of the neglect that the president purports to be so concerned about, Olszewski (D) added.
Kushner Companies, which started operating in Maryland in 2013, has owned almost 9,000 rental units across 17 complexes, many of them in Baltimore County, the Baltimore Sun reported earlier this year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jared-kushner-owns-lots-of-apartments-in-the-baltimore-area-some-were-infested-with-mice/ar-AAEZ5xY?li=BBnb7Kz
Slum lord just like his father in law.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)are just like the ones his son-in-law owns.
harumph
(1,902 posts)- in the article, it says tenants reported "mice." However it's more likely that the
tenants reported "rats" and the landlord logged "mice." Mice sounds better - it's so
Beatrix Potter.
badhair77
(4,218 posts)Im just now replaying my DVR version of Reliable Sources from CNN. April Ryan just mentioned that Jared Kushner and family own property in Baltimore and she said some call them slumlords. She said the commentator on Fox may not have wanted to open that box of bad publicity for the Kushners.
IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)so it was probably rats, which are bigger and more aggressive