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Cummings Urges Trump to 'Come to Baltimore'

Associated Press

   BALTIMORE - Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings took the high road Saturday,
   inviting President Donald Trump and other Americans to visit Baltimore
   but declining to respond in kind to the barrage of presidential tweets
   and comments disparaging him and the majority-black city he has long
   represented.

   "We are a great community," Cummings, the chairman of the powerful
   House Oversight committee investigating the administration, said in his
   first public remarks about the controversy as he participated in the
   midday opening of a small neighborhood park near his home.

   Community leaders and residents gathered to cut the ribbon on a pocket
   of greenery and flowers, built from what had been a vacant lot often
   used as a dumping ground for trash.

   "Come to Baltimore. Do not just criticize us, but come to Baltimore and
   I promise you, you will be welcomed," he said.

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