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Chicago Mayor Calls Eric Trump Spitting Incident a ‘Repugnant’ Assault
Eater ^ | June 28, 2019 | Ashok Selvam

Posted on 06/28/2019 1:37:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

After speaking with Eric Trump, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday called for stricter discipline against the Aviary server who allegedly spit on the son of President Donald Trump. Lightfoot called Tuesday night’s incident at the posh Fulton Market bar “repugnant” and said “this isn’t about politics, this is about civility.”

The server, only identified as a young woman, was placed on leave by Aviary’s parent company, the Alinea Group — the company known for acclaimed restaurants like Alinea and Next Restaurant. Law enforcement agents kept the server in custody for two hours on Tuesday night after she, as Eric Trump and the Trump Organization described to various media, spit in his face while he was customer at the upscale cocktail lounge. Eric Trump did not file charges against her. Lightfoot called Eric Trump “very gracious” for that decision. The mayor added that the Aviary should “take appropriate action against this employee.”

“We may not agree,” Lightfoot told reporters on Thursday. “And in my case I don’t agree with a lot of things that President Trump stands for. Our values are different. But you cross the line when you assault someone.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.eater.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Food; Politics; Travel
KEYWORDS: assault; chicago; illinois; lorilightfoot; trump
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1 posted on 06/28/2019 1:37:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good for the Mayor. Credit where it’s due.


2 posted on 06/28/2019 1:43:57 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good for her.


3 posted on 06/28/2019 1:44:42 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think she saw the backlash that pinko Mollett prosecutor ran into so she decided to play it safe.


4 posted on 06/28/2019 1:49:22 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems like the server should have been FIRED. No matter who she spit on.


5 posted on 06/28/2019 1:53:06 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where’s the Health Department in all of this? An employee launching bodily fluids around an eating establishment has to be a pretty big violation.


6 posted on 06/28/2019 1:53:23 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uh, assault charges please.


7 posted on 06/28/2019 1:54:11 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would never trust this restaurant to provide food for any person. Not a safe place to eat.

If their employees do this in public, it is hard to image what they do a customer’s food behind closed doors.


8 posted on 06/28/2019 1:54:33 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Except where they all say, “our values are different” meaning they do not have ANY values but it sounds good, doesn’t it?


9 posted on 06/28/2019 1:56:15 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: NEMDF

Seems like the server should have been FIRED.

Probably would have been if she was in America.


10 posted on 06/28/2019 1:57:34 PM PDT by excalibur21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What if people just walked into the restaurant, spit in the face of the hostess, and walked out?

Would the Left believe it’s a non incident?


11 posted on 06/28/2019 2:00:12 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: jeffersondem

Normal people throughout this nation need to go “on strike”, en masse.

A whole lot of the nonsense we’re witnessing these days would get shut down in a New York Minute with a modicum of organization and applied in a tactical sense. In fact it would be very simple.

Now, simple does not necessarily mean easy.

The howling and screeching by the usual suspects would be GLORIOUS. Trust Me.


13 posted on 06/28/2019 2:02:13 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The world has to return to civility.

Perhaps the diminutive mayor of Chicago can be the first Democrat to start the trend.

I salute her.

Now, those who gave to the fake GoFundMe scam are scum.


14 posted on 06/28/2019 2:02:45 PM PDT by SouthWall (Today, "I think you are wrong." equals Hate Speech.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is the identity of the waitress being kept secret?


15 posted on 06/28/2019 2:03:49 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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eric didn’t press charges and they let her go


16 posted on 06/28/2019 2:05:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: Freedom4US

———Normal people throughout this nation need to go “on strike”, en masse.-——

Don’t be silly....that would accomplish nothing....


17 posted on 06/28/2019 2:08:14 PM PDT by Popman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So glad she did that! Good for her!


18 posted on 06/28/2019 2:08:37 PM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats are scum.


19 posted on 06/28/2019 2:20:14 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Freedom4US

Normal people throughout this nation need to go “on strike”, en masse.

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Going Galt


20 posted on 06/28/2019 2:21:19 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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