Chicago Mayor Blames President Trump For The Murder Epidemic In Her City

Lori Lightfoot
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The mainstream media is making its message very clear: everything bad is President Trump's fault, and Democratic leaders in blue cities and states are bastions of leadership and progress.

This message was brought to light on Tuesday afternoon when Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) appeared on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" and was not only not pressed on the dramatic increase in violence on her city, but was urged by the host to blame it on President Trump.

"I want to also ask you about the violence this past weekend in Chicago, at least 60 shootings," host Andrea Mitchell began. 

Mitchell continued by bemoaning the president comparing the violence in the city to a war-torn Middle Eastern country.

"The president jumped all over this, comparing it to - saying the city is worse than Afghanistan," she whined. 

Mitchell assigned no blame to Lightfoot, nor did she press the left-wing mayor for answers on why her city is seeing murders and shootings rise at an alarming rate. Instead, she politely asked for her "reaction" to what President Trump said, making the topic more about his characterization of the violence than about why it was happening and what could be done to stop it.

Lightfoot, of course, happily took the road Mitchell so generously paved for her:

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. But 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. We're doing an all-hands-on-deck strategy. We're 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. We need the kind of leadership that Joe Biden is going to bring to our country. 
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