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<p>Ivanka Trump is getting called out and fact checked after claiming 7 people were killed and 52 were wounded in Chicago over the weekend.</p><p>In response to the massive outpouring of grief and debate following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ivanka urged Americans to direct their attention towards the gun violence that took lives in Chicago over the weekend.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As we grieve over the evil mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year.</p>&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1158773173921427456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">With 7 dead and 52 wounded near a playground in the Windy City- and little national outrage or media coverage- we mustn’t become numb to the violence faced by inner city communities every day.</p>&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1158773175657881601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Ivanka&#39;s tweets were quickly fact-checked by Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago during a press conference on Tuesday.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;She got the numbers wrong, she got the location wrong, that&#39;s the danger of trying to govern via tweet. Well, that&#39;s the danger of somebody with a platform and audience of that kind that doesn&#39;t know what they&#39;re talking about and getting the fundamental facts wrong.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>It wasn&#39;t a playground, it was a park. It wasn&#39;t seven dead, it wasn&#39;t 52 wounded in one incident, and it&#39;s misleading. It&#39;s important, when we&#39;re talking about people&#39;s lives, to get the facts correct.</p> </blockquote><p>According to <em><a data-vars-event-id="c6" data-vars-item-name="BL-9044781-https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/us/chicago-violence-guns.html" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/us/chicago-violence-guns.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>, </em>there was not one mass shooting but 32 separate shooting incidents in the city across the entire weekend. This includes one two hour window on Sunday during which 17 people were wounded on the West Side.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Despite being corrected by the mayor, Ivanka&#39;s tweets are still posted, and people have been piling on her for feigning concern without fact checking. Many think her wording is intentionally manipulative, since it causes readers to theink there was one mass shooting this past weekend in Chicago.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">whats wrong with u</p>&mdash; ROSIE (@Rosie) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/1158835451136028674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Delete this inaccurate information.</p>&mdash; Katherine (@Kathatestrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kathatestrump/status/1159079583926243329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><oembed>https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1158840859615551494?s=20</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At least the mask is off. &quot;What about Chicago&quot; is the center-square on white-nationalist bingo.</p>&mdash; Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports/status/1158861879562973185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shorter Ivanka: forget about the White Nationalist terrorism my father inspires &amp; easy access to unregulated guns that makes mass shootings so frequent and deadly. Instead: focus on deriding &quot;inner cities&quot; or &quot;urban&quot; people and places.</p>&mdash; David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1158847036470505473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>People were quick to point out the fact that IVanka is using Chicago as a prop to distract from very real discussions about necessary gun reform, and the racist influence of her father.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shorter Ivanka: forget about the White Nationalist terrorism my father inspires &amp; easy access to unregulated guns that makes mass shootings so frequent and deadly. Instead: focus on deriding &quot;inner cities&quot; or &quot;urban&quot; people and places.</p>&mdash; David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1158847036470505473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sad</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/factsoptional?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#factsoptional</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/daddyslittleenabler?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#daddyslittleenabler</a> <a href="https://t.co/IU4MEj0tBm">pic.twitter.com/IU4MEj0tBm</a></p>&mdash; Michele Che 🌊🌎☮️🧩✊🏽♻️🗳💪🏽🌊 (@MicheleChevere1) <a href="https://twitter.com/MicheleChevere1/status/1158926436155023361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I remember during the campaign you’re dad said he would fix Chicago in two weeks. What happened? Also, you do realize that inner-city problems are Partly the result of slavery, and more than 200 years of racism by white supremacist keeping black people down?</p>&mdash; David Hoffman (@atdavidhoffman) <a href="https://twitter.com/atdavidhoffman/status/1159084711941197824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The White House published an official statement in response to the backlash and Lightfoot&#39;s fact-checking:</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;Ivanka has appreciated getting to know Mayor Lightfoot, respects her commitment to addressing this issue and looks forward to continuing the conversation around this issue, workforce development and economic opportunity for all.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;To the extent that her quote was misleading in implying that all of the shooting incidents occurred in one location, it remains important to note that there were 7 deaths and 52 wounded across the city, resulting in one of the deadliest weekends in the city this year.&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;Her point remains the same, we cannot ignore the gun violence that happens in cities across this country on a daily basis.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Ivanka Trump's tweets about mass shooting in Chicago get fact-checked by the mayor.

Ivanka Trump is getting called out and fact checked after claiming 7 people were killed and 52 were wounded in Chicago over the weekend.In response to the massive outpouring of grief and debate following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ivanka urged Americans to direct their attention towards the gun violence that took lives in Chicago over the weekend.As we grieve over the evil mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year.&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 6, 2019 With 7 dead and 52 wounded near a playground in the Windy City- and little national outrage or media coverage- we mustn’t become numb to the violence faced by inner city communities every day.&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 6, 2019 Ivanka&#39;s tweets were quickly fact-checked by Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago during a press conference on Tuesday. &quot;She got the numbers wrong, she got the location wrong, that&#39;s the danger of trying to govern via tweet. Well, that&#39;s the danger of somebody with a platform and audience of that kind that doesn&#39;t know what they&#39;re talking about and getting the fundamental facts wrong.&quot;  It wasn&#39;t a playground, it was a park. It wasn&#39;t seven dead, it wasn&#39;t 52 wounded in one incident, and it&#39;s misleading. It&#39;s important, when we&#39;re talking about people&#39;s lives, to get the facts correct. According to The New York Times, there was not one mass shooting but 32 separate shooting incidents in the city across the entire weekend. This includes one two hour window on Sunday during which 17 people were wounded on the West Side.Despite being corrected by the mayor, Ivanka&#39;s tweets are still posted, and people have been piling on her for feigning concern without fact checking. Many think her wording is intentionally manipulative, since it causes readers to theink there was one mass shooting this past weekend in Chicago.whats wrong with u&mdash; ROSIE (@Rosie) August 6, 2019 Delete this inaccurate information.&mdash; Katherine (@Kathatestrump) August 7, 2019  https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1158840859615551494?s=20At least the mask is off. &quot;What about Chicago&quot; is the center-square on white-nationalist bingo.&mdash; Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) August 6, 2019 Shorter Ivanka: forget about the White Nationalist terrorism my father inspires &amp; easy access to unregulated guns that makes mass shootings so frequent and deadly. Instead: focus on deriding &quot;inner cities&quot; or &quot;urban&quot; people and places.&mdash; David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) August 6, 2019 People were quick to point out the fact that IVanka is using Chicago as a prop to distract from very real discussions about necessary gun reform, and the racist influence of her father.Shorter Ivanka: forget about the White Nationalist terrorism my father inspires &amp; easy access to unregulated guns that makes mass shootings so frequent and deadly. Instead: focus on deriding &quot;inner cities&quot; or &quot;urban&quot; people and places.&mdash; David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) August 6, 2019 #sad #factsoptional #daddyslittleenabler pic.twitter.com/IU4MEj0tBm&mdash; Michele Che 🌊🌎☮️🧩✊🏽♻️🗳💪🏽🌊 (@MicheleChevere1) August 7, 2019 I remember during the campaign you’re dad said he would fix Chicago in two weeks. What happened? Also, you do realize that inner-city problems are Partly the result of slavery, and more than 200 years of racism by white supremacist keeping black people down?&mdash; David Hoffman (@atdavidhoffman) August 7, 2019 The White House published an official statement in response to the backlash and Lightfoot&#39;s fact-checking: &quot;Ivanka has appreciated getting to know Mayor Lightfoot, respects her commitment to addressing this issue and looks forward to continuing the conversation around this issue, workforce development and economic opportunity for all.&quot;  &quot;To the extent that her quote was misleading in implying that all of the shooting incidents occurred in one location, it remains important to note that there were 7 deaths and 52 wounded across the city, resulting in one of the deadliest weekends in the city this year.&quot;  &quot;Her point remains the same, we cannot ignore the gun violence that happens in cities across this country on a daily basis.&quot; 

Ivanka Trump is getting called out and fact checked after claiming 7 people were killed and 52 were wounded in Chicago over the weekend.