Needless to say, I hated Elijah Cummings as a politician while he was in the House. Regardless of how I felt of him as a politician, he was still a human being, so his sudden death last night isn’t something I care to mock or make light of. But leave it to the New York Times to make Mr. Cummings’ death all about Donald Trump. The actual headline of the New York Times story about Elijah Cummings’ death read:
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Elijah E. Cummings, Powerful Democrat who investigated Trump dies at age 68.
In obituary that is supposed to be about Cummings, writers Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David Stout mentioned or referred to Trump 9 times in the first 12 paragraphs. The reflection began this way:
Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress and a central figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump, died on Thursday in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
The Times journalists continued:
A critical ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Cummings spent his final months in Congress sparring with the president, calling Mr. Trump’s effort to block congressional lines of inquiry “far worse than Watergate.”
He was sued by Mr. Trump as the president tried to keep his business records secret.
The Times found Cummings’s friendship with Republicans odd, referring to those in the “ultraconservative” House Freedom Caucus.
Although he was a fierce defender of his party and its interests, Mr. Cummings had strong friendships with members of the other party. Republicans generally held him in high regard, and he had an especially improbable bond with Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and a leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus.