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CNN’s Victor Blackwell was overcome with emotion while responding to President Trump’s tweets criticizing Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings as a “bully”.

Blackwell, 35, also took offense to Trump calling Baltimore “disgusting” and “a rat and rodent infested mess.”

Trump was referring to actual rats running roughshod over the city of Baltimore. The president also referred to the crime that plagues Baltimore.

But Blackwell, who is openly homosexual, focused on one word: “infested.”

“‘Infested’? That’s usually reserved for references to rodents and insects, but we’ve seen the president invoke ‘infestation’ to criticize lawmakers before. You see a pattern here?” he said during his monologue on Saturday.

Blackwell then went on to compare Trump’s criticism of Cummings’ district to his tweets telling Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to go back and fix the problems in her native country.

“Just two weeks ago, President Trump attacked four minority congresswomen: ‘Why don’t they go back to the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.’ Reminder, three of them were born here, all of them are American.”

Blackwell fought back tears as he defended the city where he was born and raised.

“The President says about Congressman Cummings’ district that no human would want to live there. You know who did, Mr. President? 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.”


 
The video of Blackwell breaking down on air garnered millions of views online. Sympathizers praised him, but others were taken back by his focus on what Trump tweeted.

They noted that residents are fleeing his city in droves due to the unchecked crime problem, and they asked Blackwell to use his platform to urge Congress to help clean up the city.

The video below shows young people kicking and stomping a 59-year-old man who was on his way to work at 6 a.m. on Wednesday.

Earlier in the week, a deputy commissioner and his wife were robbed at gunpoint while walking home.

These are just two examples of recent criminal activity in crime-plagued Baltimore.