Elijah Cummings: Obama, Clinton and Pelosi remember the late congressman at funeral - video Without mentioning the president, Obama on Friday eulogized leading qualities of Cummings… He didn't go to John McCain's funeral, and he wasn't invited. It would be one of Cummings' last official acts.
The sun was shining and it was just absolutely glorious. She noted how Cummings was a fierce defender of Hillary Clinton against “very spurious claims” made by Republicans over the years. Elijah Cummings Funeral: Watch Obama, ... Cummings fired back at Trump, saying he goes home daily, adding, "Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors." Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, ahead of funeral services at his home church in Baltimore on Friday, Oct. 25. “Elijah Cummings was honorable before he was elected to office,” Obama said. There’s nothing weak about looking out for others.
Elijah Cummings’s death during Donald Trump’s presidency highlights how allowing current circumstances betrayed what he fought for. “He had little tolerance for those who put party ahead of country or partisanship above truth.”“We should hear him now in the quiet times at night and in the morning when we need courage, when we get discouraged and we don’t know if we can believe anymore,” Mr. Clinton said.And with its focus on Mr. Cummings’s faith — he was a regular 7:15 a.m. Sunday attendee at New Psalmist Baptist Church, which hosted the packed Friday home-going — the funeral also injected a strong dose of religiosity into a party whose presidential front-runners have been busy announcing policy prescriptions but sounding few of the overtly pious notes once regularly played by former Presidents Carter, Obama and Clinton.“It hurt him,” Ms. Cummings said.In recent days, Mr. Cummings had told relatives that he was ready to go, they said. [Singing] “This is the day the Lord has made; let us, rejoice and be glad in it.
We’re not all trash and rats,” one congregant said as she found her seat.Elonna Jones, 21, skipped her classes at the University of Maryland to attend with her mother, Waneta Ross, who nearly teared up as she contemplated Baltimore’s loss.Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Mr. Cummings to his namesake Elijah, the biblical figure.
2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a veiled shot at President Donald They were of different races and political parties; they had greatly different life experiences; they lived on different ends of the country; and they even served on different sides of the Capitol.This afternoon, Cummings’s widow drew the sharpest contrast between her late husband and the president who attacked him.
In many ways, Friday’s service was reminiscent of the funeral last year for Senator John McCain, a Republican who was held up as a counterweight to Mr. Trump.BALTIMORE — Two former United States presidents and a throng of powerful American leaders joined thousands of everyday people in Baltimore on Friday to bid farewell to Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a towering African-American presence in Washington who was praised for his integrity, his character and, in his final months, his unwavering challenges to President Trump.Over more than two decades in Congress, Mr. Cummings championed working people, environmental reform and civil rights. That may sound basic and like a no-brainer.