Locals say it was actually July 4th fireworks
A Chicago politician on Thursday blamed President Donald Trump for inciting the alt-right to damage a bust of Abraham Lincoln, despite at least one eyewitness saying locals were to blame.
Ald. Ray Lopez said that extremists emboldened by Trump's rhetoric following the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend had badly burned the nearly 100-year-old bust in West Englewood, a predominantly African-American community, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
But the Sun-Times spoke to a resident who says that he saw locals lighting fireworks off the bust on the Fourth of July and burning newspapers on top of it..
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They better get use to it
ReplyDeleteThis just shows how ignorant these people, as a group, have become.
ReplyDeletewell, it ain't Bush's fault no more.
ReplyDeletethese people are pure idiots. period
ReplyDeleteTrumps fault the sky is going to go dark on Monday for a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's Trump fault that the sun goes down at night. (map)
ReplyDeleteEverything is Trump's fault!---CNN
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