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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 08:04 PM Jul 2019

Jared 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. Cummings’s 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 president’s 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 Trump’s comments as “an attack on basic decency.”

“It is certainly ironic that the president’s 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.

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Jared Kushner owns lots of apartments in the Baltimore area. Some were infested with mice. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 OP
Clearly Trump thinks that all living places in Baltimore PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2019 #1
I guarantee they weren't "mice." That's what landlords report harumph Jul 2019 #2
This information has to be shouted from the rooftops. badhair77 Jul 2019 #3
Having a few cats around can take care of any mice IronLionZion Jul 2019 #4

harumph

(1,902 posts)
2. I guarantee they weren't "mice." That's what landlords report
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 09:23 PM
Jul 2019

- 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)
3. This information has to be shouted from the rooftops.
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 09:39 PM
Jul 2019

I’m 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)
4. Having a few cats around can take care of any mice
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 11:20 AM
Jul 2019

so it was probably rats, which are bigger and more aggressive

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