TUCKER CARLSON: Lori Lightfoot was ‘punished’ by Chicago’s residents

One factor we have now realized after a few years within the information enterprise is that each on occasion you have to eat some crow and admit that regardless of your finest intentions, you have been utterly flawed about one thing. Tonight is a type of occasions.

For practically 4 years now, we have been underneath the impression, an impression we frequently communicated to you, our viewers, that actor Jussie Smollett was the best B.S. artist since Invoice Clinton, that he was a clear race-hoaxer who fooled the dummies within the nationwide media however couldn’t idiot us. That is what we thought. We thought Jussie Smollett was a liar. You bear in mind his story? It did appear unlikely.

Late one night time in subzero temperatures, in a snowstorm, Jussie Smollett determined to enterprise out for a sandwich in downtown Chicago when he was, as individuals are, accosted by two bodily huge Trump supporters from Africa who in some way acknowledged him regardless of his ski hat from his half in a bit of recognized musical drama sequence known as “Empire.” As a result of campy musical dramas are apparently big with muscle-head Trump voters from Nigeria. In order that they knew him immediately, straight away.

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These two crazed African right-wing maniacs additionally appropriately guessed that Jussie Smollett had voted for Hillary Clinton, and so they hated that. And in order Trump voters so usually do, they start pummeling him concerning the face and screaming, “That is MAGA nation.” As a result of that is one of many issues individuals usually say about downtown Chicago. It is MAGA nation. 

Then as a result of they have been nonetheless indignant – they’re at all times indignant – these Nigerian racists poured bleach on Jussie Smollett, threw a noose round his neck after which ran off into the night time, howling with demented glee. Here is how Jussie Smollett described it.

JUSSIE SMOLLETT: After I see the attacker, masked, and he stated, “This MAGA nation n*****.” Punches me proper within the face. I used to be simply jumped after which, I look down and I see that there is a rope round my neck.

We will be trustworthy with you. We had some questions on that story. It simply did not sound correct to us. One thing was off. Crazed Nigerian Trump voters assaulting liberals in downtown Chicago? How frequent is that this? Chicago has 50 aldermen, and never a single one in all them is a Republican. Chicago has not had a Republican mayor in 80 years. Donald Trump bought 12% of the vote in Chicago. It did not actually look like MAGA nation. However boy, have been we flawed.

Not solely is Chicago a right-wing Donald Trump stronghold, final night time, the QAnon Military got here for Lori Lightfoot. Lightfoot, in fact, is the mayor of Chicago and a consummate neo-liberal. She’s the one who prevented Chicago cops from chasing criminals on foot as a result of chasing criminals is racist. She’s the mayor who plunged Chicago even additional and additional into debt for a great trigger to pay for the Division of Local weather and Environmental Fairness. And actually, Lightfoot’s dedication to fairness was so profound that she banned white reporters from speaking to her. She took down not one however two statues of Christopher Columbus, who was a racist. 

So you’d assume if anyone can be secure in Chicago, which is roughly 100% Democratic Occasion voters, it will be Lori Lightfoot.

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, and her partner Amy Eshleman wave to supporters throughout Girls for Lori Rally in Chicago, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (AP Photograph/Nam Y. Huh)

Oh, however no. In accordance with Lori Lightfoot, the intense MAGA Republicans, those who tried to bleach Jussie Smollett, activated their sleeper cells across the metropolis and so they confirmed up on the polls en masse, which suggests a number of them without delay. And the impact was to make Lori Lightfoot the primary Chicago mayor in 40 years, to lose re-election. As Lightfoot put it final night time at her non-victory occasion, these MAGA Republicans hated her not due to what she did, however due to who she is. Requested instantly whether or not her defeat within the Democratic major had been unfair, Lightfoot answered this manner: “I am a Black girl in America. In fact.” 

Now, one of many many tragedies right here and there are such a lot of layers of tragedy, is that Lori Lightfoot, insightful as she’s at all times been, noticed this racist insurgency coming for years. Right here she was in 2021.

REPORTER: Mayor, in latest months, there have been questions raised about your your temperament and your response to criticism. Tribune editorial use the time period “irascible.” How a lot of this do you assume might need to do with the truth that you are a lady and particularly a Black girl?

LORI LIGHTFOOT: About 99% of it.

As a result of the factor is, there are not any ladies in Chicago. It is a completely male and right-wing metropolis. And so all opposition to Lori Lightfoot derived from her race and gender. It is not that individuals are indignant about violent crime in Chicago. That by no means crossed your thoughts. No. Right here as a substitute is her rationalization from final night time’s concession speech. 

LIGHTFOOT: Clearly, we did not win the election at the moment, however I stand right here with my head held excessive and a coronary heart stuffed with gratitude. I am grateful that we have labored collectively to take away a file variety of weapons off our streets, decreased homicides, and began making actual progress on public security.

Clearly you did not win. That is true. You bought spanked just like the dangerous little mayor you have been. However in accordance with the Chicago Police Division, we’re additionally joyful she was mayor as a result of she made the town quite a bit higher. Here is what the police stated in a press release: “Over the previous three years, robberies, burglaries and thefts hit file lows in Chicago. Every of those crime classes noticed decreases not seen for the final 50 years.” Oh, it is quite a bit safer than it is ever been in 50 years.

Hmm. Is that true? Nicely, let’s examine the identical police division’s personal statistics. And right here they’re. From 2019 to 2023 in Chicago, robberies went up, not down, really, up 27%. Theft practically 40%. Homicide, type of a big class, 59%. How about motorcar theft? Is that up or down? Oh, it is up 270%. So should you have been to common all that out, meaning all crime is up 33%. 

There have been 300 extra murders by gunshot in 2021 than there have been in 2019. There have been 2000 extra capturing victims. There have been 30% extra general shootings. In order that’s not a safer metropolis. Truly, that is a way more harmful metropolis that individuals are fleeing for his or her very lives.

What’s fascinating is that the individuals answerable for making the place safer are nonetheless working to make it rather more harmful. The highest prosecutor within the metropolis, Lori Lightfoot’s ally, Kim Foxx, is rejecting 1000’s of felony circumstances yearly, simply not prosecuting crimes. In 2022, for instance, Chicago prosecutors had a complete of 20,000 felony circumstances come within the door, and out of these, they rejected proper out of hand, 2000. They pursued out of 20,000 circumstances, simply 1,900 to indictment, to not convictions, to indictment charging individuals. And people numbers usually are not an anomaly. They’re related for each different 12 months of Lori Lightfoot’s traditionally disastrous tenure as mayor.

And what’s taking place? Nicely, individuals are fleeing Chicago, as famous, as a result of they do not need to get killed. And you may see that within the residence costs. The place are residence costs highest in America? Of the 12 highest priced residence markets in America, 9 are in Florida as a result of individuals are fleeing there. 

The alternative is true of Chicago. The median residence value is lower than the median residence value within the nation as a complete, in trendy Chicago. The median residence value in Chicago was $270,000. 

So who did this? Nicely, it was a gaggle effort, however Lori Lightfoot was the mayor. However it’s not her fault. whose fault it’s? Companies and residents, pedestrians. They made themselves straightforward targets. Watch.

LIGHTFOOT: I am disillusioned that they are not doing extra to take security and make it a precedence. For instance, we nonetheless have retailers that will not institute plans, like having safety officers in your shops, ensuring that they have cameras which are really operational, locking up their merchandise at night time, chaining excessive finish baggage. These purses appear to be one thing that’s attracting a whole lot of consideration on these organized retail theft items.

Wait, what? Did she simply blame the shops for getting robbed? How is that totally different than saying, “Nicely, you are sporting a halter high. In fact you bought raped.” I imply, it isn’t totally different, really. It is blaming the sufferer. It is disgusting. When was the final time you noticed a mayor of a metropolis blame crime victims for being victimized? Nicely, you simply noticed Lori Lightfoot do it. 

So crime is now not punished by and huge in Chicago except you disrespect Lori Lightfoot’s authority. And in that case, you went straight to jail. Watch.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, proven at Metropolis Corridor on April 15, 2021. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photos)

LIGHTFOOT: Now, I’ve directed Superintendent Brown to order all police districts to present particular consideration to those events. And that is how it should be. We are going to shut you down. We are going to cite you. And if we have to, we’ll arrest you, and we’ll take you to jail. Interval.

“We are going to take you to jail. We’ll arrest you and take you to jail.” Not should you shoot someone. Should you break Lori Lightfoot’s COVID legislation. However in fact, COVID legislation did not apply to her as a result of why would dictators observe their very own edicts? And so Lori Lightfoot instantly broke the state’s stay-at-home order to get a haircut. And when she was busted getting her haircut, not an excellent haircut we’ll need to say, she blamed, in fact, all people else. 

LIGHTFOOT: I am the general public face of this metropolis. I am on nationwide media, and I am out within the public eye. And, you already know, I am an individual who I take my private hygiene very critically. As I stated, I felt like I wanted to have a haircut. I am not in a position to do this myself, and so I bought a haircut.

So now Lori Lightfoot is gone. Who comes subsequent? We don’t know. We do not stay in Chicago. We’re not even going to take a position on the state of native politics in that metropolis. All we all know is probably the most flamboyantly horrible mayor within the nation was punished. The system labored. And if it labored in Chicago, possibly it might work in New Orleans, the place LaToya Cantrell is shortly destroying some of the charming cities on the planet.

However a part of us, if we’re being trustworthy, will miss Lori Lightfoot. Regardless of all of the human struggling she brought on, there’s a part of us that type of loved it. By embodying each one in all her occasion’s excesses over the previous 4 years, Lori Lightfoot inadvertently helped to show them. 

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Right here you had an entire buffoon, somebody who ran round bragging about having a big penis – we’re simply telling you what she stated – in some way operating one of many best cities on the planet. At occasions, it did not look like even Lori Lightfoot might imagine she was mayor. She clearly did not actually look after the job. 

Simply save the tape. Save the tape. That is at all times our counsel. From Might of 2020 until now, March 1 of 2023, American politicians, the complete class, have gone utterly insane, and a whole lot of it’s caught on video. And future generations will not imagine it if you inform them, so save the tape.