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Eric Trump: “There were 70 shootings last week in Chicago.”

Featuring: Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization | National

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Published | Video Starts at 00:42

I mean, you have the finest men and women in this country who are going out trying to get drugs off the street, trying to get fentanyl off the street, trying to stop the drug traffic, trying to get bad people out of Chicago. There were 70 shootings last week in Chicago. Martha. 70, 70 guns went off in Chicago with a lot of deaths and destruction. They're tearing apart our communities. They're tearing apart our children. They're poisoning our children. (00:42–00:46)

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