First daughter Ivanka Trump pointed to deadly weekend shootings in Chicago in tweets where she called for the nation not to ignore 'inner city' violence as the nation continued to process horrific mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.
Ivanka fired off a pair of tweets about Chicago, whose spate of shootings featured in her father's 2016 presidential campaign, while also slamming the media in a tactic online critics immediately blasted as a diversion from the mass shootings.
Those incidents were drawing a national focus on some her father's incendiary rhetoric as well as cyclical debates about gun control for military-style assault weapons that can be purchased legally in the U.S.
'Let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year,' Ivanka Trump tweeted Tuesday
Ivanka Trump called out white supremacy of the kind espoused by the El Paso shooter on August 4, a day before President Trump did the same in a speech to the nation.
'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,' Ivanka Trump tweeted.
'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,' she wrote.
He tweets pointing at Chicago follow her father's repeated attacks on the rat 'infested' Baltimore district of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). Some Democrats condemned those comments as racist, a charge Trump vigorously disputed.
Ivanka Trump tweeted about Chicago shootings amid renewed discussions about gun control and white supremacist ideology
She complained there was 'little national outrage or media coverage' of the Chicago shootings
Bodies are removed from at the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. Several people in Ohio have been killed in the second mass shooting in the U.S. in less than 24 hours, and the suspected shooter is also deceased, police said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Police tape drapes over a chair near a pile of shoes after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday, Aug, 4, 2019
Ivanka Trump tweeted about Chicago and posted on Instagram
Law enforcement agencies respond to an active shooter at a Wal-Mart near Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019
The details of that tweet drew an angry response from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a former prosecutor who has vowed to rein in the city's shooting epidemic.
The mayor noted that the shooting in question wasn't in a playground, but in a park. That shooting lead to multiple injuries but not to the seven dead that Ivanka cited, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
'What I'm focused on is actually helping run the city of Chicago and working hard every day with the superintendent and his leadership team to keep people in our city safe,' Lightfoot said. 'I'm not going to be distracted by nonsense tweets from people who don't know what they're talking about.'
'That's the danger of somebody with a platform and audience [that big who] doesn't know what they're talking about and getting the fundamental facts wrong that they could easily figure out if they had the decency to actually reach out to us if they wanted to be a constructive and engaged partner,' Lightfoot fumed.
She had met Ivanka Trump previously and said she had 'reached out' following the tweets without getting a response.
'She got the numbers wrong. She got the location wrong. That's the danger of trying to governing via tweet. If they want to help, they should actually call us ... and we would offer them specific ways in which the federal government could actually partner with us to help address the issues on the ground.'
She blasted the first daughter on the details.
'It wasn't a playground, it was a park. It wasn't seven dead. It wasn't 52 wounded in one incident, which is what this suggests. It's misleading,' Lightfoot said. 'It's important when we're talking about people's lives to actually get the facts correct which one can easily do if you actually cared about getting it right.'
According to the local NBC affiliate, seven people were wounded in a Sunday shooting that took place about 1:20 AM Sunday in Douglas Park on the city's West Side.
Online commentators accused Ivanka of making a diversion from the other shootings.
On August 4, she tweeted about white supremacy, anticipating her father's denunciation amid criticism that his own comments about an immigrant 'invasion' could have inflamed the El Paso shooter. 'White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed,' Ivanka Trump tweeted.
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