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Trump calls Pritzker, Lightfoot failures on gun violence

RICK PEARSON Chicago Tribune 2 min ago

CHICAGO — Republican President Donald Trump lashed out Friday night at Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot over Chicago’s gun violence, saying the two had put their “own political interests” ahead of the lives of residents and insisting that “law and order” was needed.

In a letter, Trump also used the violence issue as a jumping off point to attack the state and city for high taxes and burdensome regulations, contending Pritzker and Lightfoot’s “insatiable appetite” for taxes has led people to flee Illinois.
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Trump said in his letter that while he has been “heartened” at a reduction of crime on a national level, he has been “horrified by the continued violence in this great American city.” He said the violence was “disproportionately harming young African Americans,” calling it “tragic and unacceptable, particularly on such a shocking scale.”

“Your lack of leadership on this important issue continues to fail the people you have sworn to protect. I am concerned it is another example of your lack of commitment to the vulnerable citizens who are victims of this violence and a lack of respect for the men and women in law enforcement,” Trump wrote of Pritzker and Lightfoot.

“Unfortunately, you continue to put your own political interests ahead of the lives, safety, and fortunes of your own citizens,” he wrote. “The people of Chicago deserve better.”
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“More Americans have been killed in Chicago than in combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq combined since Sept. 11, 2001, a deadly trend that has continued under your tenure,” Trump wrote ...
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The president said he was “willing to tackle unsolved challenges” like Chicago’s violence “unlike previous administrations of both parties.” But, he had a caveat.

“If you are willing to put partisanship aside, we can revitalize distressed neighborhoods in Chicago, together. But to succeed, you must establish law and order,” the president said.

“If you are interested, I am willing to ask members of my Cabinet to meet with you and help devise a plan to make Chicago safe, since a successful formula has escaped both you and your predecessors,” he added.
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Trump also took a shot at the state and city’s finances. Offering a list of federal funding for law enforcement in the city, Trump said the money was in addition to dollars “collected through your combined insatiable appetite to tax the people of Illinois and Chicago” while vulnerable communities continue to “deteriorate.”

Trump’s letter comes after Lightfoot late last month ripped the president over his Floyd remarks, saying “what I really want to say to Donald Trump. It’s two words. It begins with F and it ends with U.”
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