Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Blames Richard Nixon for Chicago’s Gun Violence. Let’s Go, Brandon!

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Last week­end 19 peo­ple were killed and more than 100 injured by gun vio­lence in Chica­go.

Chica­go May­or Bran­don John­son announced he would do every­thing pos­si­ble to curb Chicago’s over­whelm­ing gun crime and vio­lence.

Just kid­ding! He blamed it on some­one else:

For­mer Pres­i­dent Richard Nixon. Nixon, a Repub­li­can, resigned the pres­i­den­cy in dis­grace 50 years ago and died 31 years ago. If you’re less than 50 years old you might not know any­thing about him.

Does­n’t mat­ter to May­or John­son:

“Black death has been unfor­tu­nate­ly been accept­ed in this coun­try for a very long time,” John­son said at a press con­fer­ence to dis­cuss Chicago’s gun vio­lence. “We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root caus­es. And peo­ple mocked Pres­i­dent John­son, and we end­ed up with Richard Nixon.”

John­son likes to blame oth­ers for Chicago’s prob­lems. He threw for­mer May­or Lori Light­foot under the bus for the city’s migrant prob­lems, even though he’s been in office for a year now. But this is a stretch even for him.

So far he has­n’t elab­o­rat­ed on his accu­sa­tion. Me, I’m not hold­ing my breath. Let’s go, Bran­don!