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2019-08-08 Home Front: Politix

Chi Mayor Lori Lightfoot rips Ivanka Trump’s comments about Chicago’s deadly weekend

[MSN] Before her inauguration as reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
's mayor, Lori Lightfoot visited the White House to meet with Ivanka Trump and begin building a relationship that she hoped could lead to help in solving some of the city's deepest problems.

But this week, Lightfoot engaged in a public battle of words with the president's powerful daughter, who in a series of tweets on Tuesday drew attention to the city's gun violence and provoked an angry response from Chicago's mayor.

Early Tuesday, Ivanka Trump drew renewed national attention to Chicago's problems with gun violence by writing, "As we grieve over the evil mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year."

"With 7 dead and 52 maimed near a playground in the Windy City -- and little national outrage or media coverage -- we mustn't become numb to the violence faced by inner city communities every day," she tweeted.

Lightfoot took exception to the remarks and made her feelings known during a news conference after her so-called Accountability Tuesday meeting with Chicago police brass to review the city's police strategies and response to violence.

A livid Lightfoot said Trump got key facts wrong in her online comments and falsely implied that all the injuries happened in one incident. If Ivanka Trump cared, Lightfoot said, she should have reached out to city officials.

"It wasn't a playground, it was a park. It wasn't seven dead. It wasn't 52 maimed in one incident, which is what this suggests. It's misleading," Lightfoot said. "It's important when we're talking about people's lives to actually get the facts correct, which one can easily do if you actually cared about getting it right."

Posted by Fred 2019-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Lightfoot is not the mayor of Chicago. Satan is the mayor. Lightfoot is just satan's communications director. But Dem(on) Lightfoot will not mention approximately 93 people over 8 days were shot in Chicago.

Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-08-08 01:10|| 2019-08-08 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "It's important when we're talking about people's lives to actually get the facts correct

It's not as murdery if you spread it out a bit, which is of great consolation to the dead.

Posted by SteveS 2019-08-08 01:36|| 2019-08-08 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope Ivanka tweets a weekly running tally of Chicago's unending violence.

Posted by Butch Thating8912 2019-08-08 07:51|| 2019-08-08 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 A daily running tally of Chicago's unending violence

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-08-08 08:35|| 2019-08-08 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm guessing Mayor Lightfoot doesn't follow HeyJackass or read Rantburg.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-08-08 10:38|| 2019-08-08 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 "It is just so Racist to point out what a bad job I'm doing!" - Every Democrat for the past 50 years.

And they wonder why people don't give a crap about being called racists anymore...

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-08-08 11:08|| 2019-08-08 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 In this era of nicknames, may I suggest "Mayor Lightloafers."

Posted by JohnQC 2019-08-08 12:00|| 2019-08-08 12:00|| Front Page Top

#8 SCC calls her Groot

Posted by Frank G 2019-08-08 12:59|| 2019-08-08 12:59|| Front Page Top

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