Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says Trump Rhetoric To Blame For Threats To Michigan Governor -- And Her
Source: Block Club Chicago
CHICAGO — When President Donald Trump tweets or trash talks Democratic mayors or governors, it encourages extremist Americans to threaten these elected officials — who are most often women and people of color, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
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When asked Thursday about the Whitmer threat, Lightfoot said “all roads lead back to Donald Trump,” saying every time the president or his spokespeople attack Chicago and called out Lightfoot by name, she’s inundated by threats and hateful comments.
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“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t get some kind of harassment, whether it’s just repeated calls, things left on voicemail or other things threatening violence. Some of them are just people who want to vent … that goes with the territory. But there is a real cause and effect when the president names me in a disparaging way, which is usually what he does. And people feeling like they have license to make what I regard as real threats.”
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“When somebody’s calling in the middle of the night repeatedly, that’s an issue; and that has only happened since Donald Trump has been trying to attack me personally,” she said. “He seems to have a particular obsession with female and particularly mayors of color.”
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Trump has been trying to attack me personally,” she said. “He seems to have a particular obsession with female and particularly mayors of color.”
It seems to me that white supremacists have to knock others down so they can feel able to rise above. If they would stay out of the gutter with their slimeball ways, maybe they wouldn't have to knock people down to feel good about themselves.
HOW do we put the "HUMANE" into "Human" for these lot?
