Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, November 8, 2017.
Emanuel slams Trump for “pointing fingers” at Chicago again
Mayor Rahm Emanuel slammed President Donald Trump for “pointing fingers” at Chicago’s gun violence issues again instead of focusing on gun control measures after a devastating massacre at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, left 26 people dead. Trump used Chicago’s gun laws as an example of why he refuses to support stronger gun control legislation. “The city with the strongest gun laws in our nation is Chicago,” he told reporters in South Korea Tuesday. “And Chicago is a disaster, a total disaster.” Despite criticizing Trump, Emanuel refused to criticize his attorney, alderman Ed Burke, who has filed a sixth lawsuit seeking bigger tax refunds for the Trump International Hotel and Tower. “The point is not about Burke. The point is where is the city as it relates to President Trump and his policies. And I couldn’t have been clearer,” the mayor said. [Sun-Times]
