President Trump attacks Al Sharpton, so Democrats rush to his defense.

The media continue to push the Trump is racist narrative, and we preview the Democratic

debates tonight.

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Sorry for the late start, guys, but as it turns out, when you run an internet company,

one of the things that you need is internet.

We did not have that, but finally, we have achieved connection, and now we begin. Okay, so the big story of today is the continuing fight between President Trump and

pretty much everybody. I think it's fair to say at this point. President Trump was at war

with Elijah Cummings. You'll recall that over the weekend the president went after

the city of Baltimore. He said that it was rat infested. He said that it was a terrible place to live.

All of that is kind of true. And everybody went nuts. Oh, this was obviously racist. How could the president

rip into Elijah Cummings? How could the president rip into Baltimore? And then people were like,

oh yeah, it's Baltimore. And that city is not well run. And there were riots there like four years ago. And it has

some of the highest crime rates in America. And it has tremendous pockets of poverty and people living

in absolute penury and run down conditions. People who are trying to splice in their home water to

fire hydrants just so that they can live in these derelict

houses. So kind of Trump's not wrong, is he? And then the media was like, no, no, no, pay no attention to that.

Racist. Racist to criticize Baltimore. Racist to point out that Baltimore is not a great place to live.

And doesn't matter that Trump has said before that New Hampshire was a drug infested

if he used the word infestation, that means he was referring to black and brown people. And when he said

that no people want to live there, he didn't mean that people are actively moving out and that

as of the last census, Baltimore had lost population as it has been doing for decades. Now, what he meant was

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