Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deserves criticism for yielding to Antifa and demands that she remove the statues and allow the violence to spread throughout her city, Tucker Carlson said Saturday.
“Chicago was a beautiful place. There are many reasons why it is no longer beautiful. But near the top of that list is a woman named Lori Lightfoot. She is the mayor,” Carlson said in “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“Like many big city mayors, Lightfoot is incompetent,” he continued. “She has no idea what she’s doing. You wouldn’t let her plan your spring break. I would send you to Wuhan. [China] accidentally. But what makes Lori Lightfoot unusual is the remarkably aggressive way she lies. Lightfoot says things that are so implausible that they could be part of a comedy routine. But she is not joking. She expects you to believe every word of it. “
“Lightfoot says things that are so implausible that they could be part of a comedy routine. But he is not kidding. Expect you to believe every word.”
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Carlson called Lightfoot for blaming Republicans for Chicago’s problems.
“Look, it’s the Republicans’ fault that Chicago is now more dangerous than many Third World countries. That makes sense. The problem is that there are really no Republicans in Chicago. Donald Trump got 12 percent of the vote there. From Of the 50 councilors on the Chicago City Council at the moment, none of them are Republican, not one, “Carlson said. “So he moved on to a new excuse.”
“Of the 50 city council members in Chicago at the moment, none of them are Republican, not one.”
The host scoffed at Lightfoot for blaming the statues of Christopher Columbus.
“Do you know why Chicago is going down the drain right now? Do you know why all those children are being killed? By Christopher Columbus. Yes. An Italian navigator who never got within a thousand miles of The Loop and who, by the way, he died more than five hundred years ago. He did, “Carlson said. “This morning, Lightfoot ordered the city to knock down two Christopher Columbus statues, one in Little Italy and one in Grant Park. That will solve the problem, now you can let your children play outside.”
Then-Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot is seen in Chicago on April 3, 2019. (Associated Press)
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Carlson warned viewers that Lightfoot took the blame for his own failures.
“If Lori Lightfoot, progressive mayors like her across the country, and there are many, are allowed to divert attention from their own failures by bowing to the mafia and destroying public property, this will not end with Christopher Columbus,” Carlson said. “It will get much worse and it will become more dangerous.”
