Trump blasts Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel for record-setting 762 homicides and 4,331 shooting victims

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 1/2/17 | David Martosko / ap

[ColdOne]

full title....................Trump blasts Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel for record-setting 762 homicides and 4,331 shooting victims in 2016 and says he 'must ask for Federal help' if he can't fix Windy City..............................Donald Trump used his Twitter bully pulpit on Monday to blast Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for allowing his city's murder and firearms shooting rates to spiral out of control.

'Chicago murder rate is record setting – 4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016,' Trump tweeted.

'If Mayor can't do it he must ask for Federal help!'

[2banana]

He must ask DJT for help!

The bumanities...:-)

[BenLurkin]

Not to worry.

This time next year, the murders will be “Trump’s fault”

[2ndDivisionVet]

I think they can easily top 1,000 next year with an all-out effort.

[Grampa Dave]

BOL! Just a small hint of what will be coming after Potus Trump is sworn in!

[bert]

Dateline February 5, 2017

Lafayette Park.

The daily White House tweet included a message to the non working city dwellers existing on their pitiful small allowances that must now be collected in person after presentation of the new National Proof of Citizenship card, “The lines are long but the cold weather should abate in about 60 days, hang in there”

An additional Presidential tweet is expected tomorrow.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

4,331 shooting? ha ha I don’t think so, guns are illegal in Chicago. This must be fake news.

[Grampa Dave]

I think they can easily top 1,000 next year without any effort.

[BenLurkin]

“Federal help” for a local crime problem = Bad Idea.

[NorthMountain]

'If Mayor can't do it he must ask for Federal help!'

Where's that in the Constitution?

Murder in Chicongo is Chicongo's problem, Donald. Or maybe Illinois' problem. But it's definitely NOT Fedzilla's problem.

[EinNYC]

4,331 shooting? ha ha I don’t think so, guns are illegal in Chicago. This must be fake news.

Who said the shootings were done by legal gun holders?

[plain talk]

'If Mayor can't do it he must ask for Federal help!'

Federal help? It's a local issue. The city needs to deal with it.

[editor-surveyor]

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Think before you post!
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[SkyDancer]

But they have all those Gun Free zone signs.

[EQAndyBuzz]

How many of these murders were against innocents?

[sparklite2]

Let’s at least pretend the US is a republic, and not a nation-state, for appearances sake. The next step up from the city level is state, if not county. Stop looking to Washington for solutions to local problems.

[VanDeKoik]

But is there a line where it is obvious that the city and state have no ability to keep random people from being murdered by the dozens, and it is almost a complete break down in civil authority?

Not saying that this is what is happening here yet, but it could be something that may be an issue in the future.

[Blue Jays]

My sense is President Trump should not get involved with this level of local minutiae.
The voters of Chicago will first need to speak very clearly and loudly via the ballot box.

[Steven Tyler]

Ram should focus on picking up the garbage and making sure Citizens are not shot.

Ram needs to stop focusing time and resources on illegal

[NorthMountain]

The voters of Chicago will first need to speak very clearly and loudly via the ballot box.

They have. The voters of Chicongo (not all of whom are alive) elected Tiny Dancer and a slew of democRATS. They made their bed ... let them lie in it.