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Ivanka Just Tweeted About Violence in Obama’s Hometown of Chicago — It Didn’t Go Well
As Donald Trump faces criticism for mixing up Toledo and Dayton when addressing this past weekend’s mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, daughter Ivanka Trump took to Twitter to put the spotlight on gun violence in Chicago but got the facts wrong in the process.
“As we grieve over the evil mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year,” she tweeted Tuesday morning.
“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.”
The problem is her tweets contained a couple key mistakes.
As we grieve over the evil mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 6, 2019
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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.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 6, 2019
To begin with, this past weekend was not the deadliest weekend of the year in Chicago, as Ivanka Trump claimed. On the first weekend of June, eight people were shot and killed, and two more people were killed in stabbings. Eight people also were shot and killed the last weekend of July.
More importantly, Trump’s tweets suggested all of the shootings in Chicago over the weekend happened in one place, “near a playground.” That’s not even close to being true.
While there was one shooting where seven people were wounded in an attack near a playground in Douglas Park, that was only one of several shootings in many neighborhoods of the city, and no one died in that particular shooting. In addition, the shooting happened around 1:20 a.m., when it’s extremely unlikely any children would be on the playground.
In all, there were at least 29 shooting incidents in Chicago from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning, none of which included more than one fatality.
Twitter quickly hit back at Ivanka:
Maybe you can point to all the other times you’ve expressed outrage for the violence in our inner cities, so inexplicably ignored by the media…🤔
Conveniently using a horrible event in Chicago and feigning concern in order to switch the narrative is…
So. Very. Trumpian.
🙄— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 6, 2019
If only #IvankaTrump worked in the White House and had the ability to enact positive change. 😳 #ivankaresign
— Jules Morgan (@glamelegance) August 6, 2019
"There were killings that my daddy DIDN'T cause, this weekend!"
— Bob B🎼🎸 (@kitebro) August 6, 2019
You can’t be fucking serious.
How low can the Trumps go?
— lisastark35 (@lisastark351) August 6, 2019
As we grieve over the evil mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, let us not overlook that your dad is a white supremacist whose bigotry and violent rhetoric, combined with Republican inaction on gun control, fuels this violence.
— Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver) August 6, 2019
We haven't overlooked anything. That's why we support national gun legislation, and that's why we know you're part of
an administration that enables white supremacist domestic terrorism.— Anita Creamer (@AnitaCreamer) August 6, 2019
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