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HUD Secretary Ben Carson Compares Baltimore To A Cancer Patient

His trip to Baltimore comes as the city and its long-time Rep. Elijah Cummings D-Md., have been the targets of a series of disparaging tweets by President Trump.
Morning Star Baptist Church member Gregory Evans speaks to reporters about why asked HUD officials to move their press conference from the church's property. "There was no permission granted."

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson made a visit to Baltimore on Wednesday and renewed his defense of President Trump's disparaging comments about the city, and reiterated his own critique of the city where he lived for more than three decades.

"There are good things in Baltimore. There are bad things in Baltimore," Carson told reporters near a recently renovated affordable housing development. "But there are problems and

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