“All over the world they're talking about Chicago. Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison,” Trump told a gathering of police chiefs
President Donald Trump on Monday used a speech to a gathering of police chiefs to tear into his host city of Chicago, calling its violence worse than Afghanistan's, while also singling out the city’s police superintendent for snubbing his visit.
But on Monday, the president specifically trained his focus on Eddie Johnson, Chicago’s superintendent of police, who boycotted Trump’s appearance at the IACP convention,“There is one person that’s not here today — we’re in Chicago,” Trump said toward the start of his speech Monday. Trump denounced the snub as a “very insulting statement after all I've done for the police,” beginning to rattle off statistics about gun violence in the city.
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