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    Ben Carson’s Appearance in Baltimore Didn’t Go as Planned

    The housing secretary didn’t offer Trump the sort of full-throated defense that the president might have expected.
    by Peter Nicholas Jul 31, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Julio Cortez / AP

    BALTIMORE—Everyone was in place. TV camera crews had set up their tripods early this morning on a scraggly patch of grass facing a boarded-up rowhouse. Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, would be arriving any minute for a news conference that his agency had quickly arranged in a blighted pocket of West Baltimore represented by Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings.

    For days, President Donald Trump about Cummings, casting him as the overlord of rat-infested neighborhoods unfit for human habitation. It wasn’t clear ahead of time what Carson would say or

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