Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot has been failing her city. She has even been recorded saying the rioters have put them in a state of lawlessness. During the protests, she told her lawfully armed citizens to wait on the cops to get there if their homes are invaded and now she is thinking about raising property taxes to make up for the deficit in the budget. But despite her “leadership skills” Chicago is still having problems, so Lightfoot is now blaming Trump for their soaring murder rate, claiming Biden wouldn’t have let things get this bad…
Mayor Lightfoot was interviewed by MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell where she blamed Trump for not doing enough to stop gun violence in Chicago.
ANDREA MITCHELL: I want to also ask you about the violence this past weekend in Chicago, at least 60 shootings. The president jumped all over this, comparing it to — saying the city is worse than Afghanistan. your reaction as you’re trying to come to grips with all of this?
MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT: Well, look, if you go back over many years, President Trump has said a lot of disparaging things about the city of Chicago. He likes to use us as a political punching bag. But if the president was really committed to helping us deal with our violence, he would do some easy things. One is, he would push for universal background checks. He would push for an assault weapons ban. He would push to make sure that people who were banned from getting on airplanes can’t get guns. This is the kind of thing that federal leadership can do.
As long as we are challenged with having states surrounding us, notably Indiana, that has very lax gun laws, where somebody can drive across the border and literally load up a vehicle with military-grade weapons and bring them back to the city of Chicago, we’re going to continue to be challenged,” she continued. “We’re doing an all-hands-on-deck strategy. We’re really focusing on the root causes of the violence. But fundamentally we have too many illegal guns on our street, and that is a direct result of a failure of federal leadership, which is why we need change in November. And we need the kind of leadership that Joe Biden is going to bring to our country.
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Chicago’s mayor blames Trump for her city’s soaring murder rate:
“If the president was really committed to helping us deal with our violence, he would do some easy things … He would push to make sure that people who were banned from getting on airplanes can’t get guns." pic.twitter.com/2S0idD0yQd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 14, 2020
Is she saying that all of her gun violence is due to assault rifles? I doubt it. This is Lightfoot trying to push the blame on the president as she is failing her city on an epic level. But it can’t be her fault, it’s not like it’s her job to lead the city…
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