“With 7 dead and 52 wounded 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.” 

…That people are regularly shot and killed in Chicago, and that the violence rarely receives as much coverage as other mass shootings, is of course true, but the first daughter‘s concern might’ve seemed at least slightly sincere had she expressed it at any other time than while her father is taking heat for whipping racists into a frenzy and creating an environment in which they believe it’s okay to go on killing sprees if their targets are of the nonwhite variety. (Her previous mentions of the Windy City mostly center around promoting spa treatments and cocktails at the Trump Hotel Chicago, plus a photo op with the new mayor.) It would also carry a bit more weight if her father’s comments about “inner city communities” weren’t filled with dog whistles, or if he actually had a plan to reduce the number of gun-related deaths in Chicago by restricting access to firearms, which of course he does not.

…Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago fact-checked Ivanka’s tweets (“It wasn’t a playground, it was a park. It wasn’t seven dead. It wasn’t 52 wounded in one incident, which is what this suggests.”) and said that she “isn’t going to be distracted by nonsense tweets from people who don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Ivanka Trump: Let’s Focus On the Shootings My Dad Isn’t Responsible For | Vanity Fair

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