Yesterday on The Megyn Kelly Show, we told you about Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden, who represents the district where 18-year-old Loyal University student Sheridan Gorman was murdered. The suspect? A man the Department of Homeland Security has identified as 25-year-old Jose Medina-Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela with a rap sheet.
We played you a clip from Hadden’s interview with Fox 32 Chicago just hours after the shooting last Thursday in which she said of Sheridan’s murder: “It sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun.”
As we promised yesterday, we called her office to find out if she had anything to add now that we know Sheridan was shot in the back while trying to flee from the masked man. Her office didn’t answer the phone and the voicemail was full, so we sent them an email. Unsurprisingly, we got no response.
Alderwoman Maria Hadden
But a few hours later, Alderwoman Hadden finally broke her silence and released a statement… on Facebook. To her credit, she did apologize for her “wrong place, wrong time” remarks. The statement read in part:
“My comments were never intended to blame the victim or to imply that Sheridan should not have been out enjoying the park or that it was her fault that she was shot… I sincerely apologize for any additional pain that my comments may have caused.”
Hadden did not, however, mention Medina’s name or that he has been in the country illegally, only writing, “the person who shot Sheridan is the only one responsible for her death.” She referred to him as the “masked man,” “the suspect,” “the person,” but she never said his name or that he was here illegally. She said the community is “grieving a life cut short by gun violence.”
Leave it to a progressive in Chicago to make it about the gun. He seemed pretty determined to kill her. I am going to guess that if Medina had a knife on him, Sheridan would still be dead. This isn’t about gun violence. And by the way, “grieving a life cut short by gun violence”? Yes, by whom? Thanks to whom?
Hadden also appeared to take a shot at me and others in what she called “conservative media” for calling her out. “The fact that some media outlets are intentionally creating sound bites to misconstrue my words during this tragedy is also unfortunate,” she wrote. She is actually trying to claim she was taken out of context with her “wrong place, wrong time” comment.
This is where things go really off the rails because when you apologize for something, you say you’re sorry and then you STFU. You don’t try to say you were taken out of context. Why would you be sorry if you’ve been taken out of context and it is the media’s fault? You can’t have it both ways. Either you did something wrong or I did something wrong, and I am here to tell you, alderwoman, I did nothing wrong. I have you dead to rights, and now your attempt to wiggle on your inane, disgusting comment is failing because, unlike most other media, we actually do our homework here.
I am going to quote Hadden’s statement directly: “The interviewer asked me whether Sheridan was targeted by the shooter and whether this was related to the ‘Duck Walk Killer,’ who terrorized our community in 2018. I replied, ‘no,’ that this seemed to be a senseless wrong place, wrong time tragedy.”
Well, we pulled the tape and we didn’t hear anything from Hadden or Fox 32 Chicago’s Anita Blanton about a “Duck Walk Killer.” Here’s the full exchange from last Thursday where Hadden made the “wrong place, wrong time” comment:
BLANTON: We found out like, okay, this is a masked individual that pops out while she’s with a group of her friends. Should other people be concerned about their safety right now, or do we think that this is a targeted incident?
HADDEN: So from what I’ve been told so far, right, from what police know from, from speaking to the students who are with her, it seems she might have– that as they were just out. You know, people go out to the beach all the time, right? And they go out on the pier. They walk around. So, the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, a wrong time running into a person who had a gun. They might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally, but that’s, that’s all we know. So, from what I’ve been told, what police investigation has turned up so far, what they’ve been able to share with me and with Loyola University, we don’t believe there is cause for broader community concern at this time.
As you can see for yourself, there is nothing out of context there. She is lying. Just own it. Alderwoman, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been no better. We told you about his statement yesterday where he also failed to acknowledge that Medina is in the country illegally. And then he was asked about his message to Sheridan’s parents and he decided to blame – wait for it – President Trump. Here’s the exchange:
REPORTER: What do you say to Sheridan’s parents, Tom and Jessica Gorman, when they blame policies, including those in Illinois for their daughter’s murder?
PRITZKER: Well, this has been a terrible tragedy, and I know that the Gorman family has suffered mightily. I agree, there have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. They’re national failures – a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst. And in my view, we have a lot of work that we need to continue to do, but it is the job of the federal government to go after immigration enforcement.
The absolute gall to blame the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The guy came in under Joe Biden in 2023, but not a damn word about that. Instead, it’s about Trump and the absence of “comprehensive immigration reform.” Not only did Trump run on reversing Biden’s open border (which he did) and on deporting all the illegals, but then he tried to send ICE to Chicago specifically.
The reason that didn’t work out is because of that man, Gov. Pritzker. Had this man allowed Trump to send ICE into Chicago and clean up Joe Biden’s illegal immigration problem, Sheridan Gorman might still be alive. The reason Trump was stopped from doing that is because that fat bastard, Gov. Pritzker, stopped it.
In fact, in the last few months, his attacks on Trump’s immigration policies have been nonstop. It is unbelievable the nerve of this guy to actually try to blame this on Donald Trump. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I should be more cynical at this point in my news career, but it is just stomach-turning.
A girl is dead. Take some responsibility. Change your policy. Do something resembling anything to keep your citizens safe. This isn’t even touching on his refusal to fight crime in his state. Never mind the disgusting Chicago mayor who is 10 times worse than this alderwoman and the governor, if that is even possible. But Pritzker wants a national future. Pritzker wants to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028.
There is not one I would vote for, but there are some Democrats running who have diametrically opposed political views to my own and maybe many of yours but who are decent people. Yet this level of dishonesty, gaslighting, and refusal to take responsibility when you are watching 18-year-old American girls get shot to death is beyond effed up. It is incredibly cynical and dark and really exposes a depraved moral character.
But are we really surprised? This is the same family that had been shoving the transgender ideology on our kids for years now. That is his family, the Pritzkers. There is something sick about them. They don’t care about the health and wellness of American children whether it is an 18-year-old girl named Sheridan Gorman or students being introduced to the notion of gender confusion by teachers with an agenda in schools. The Pritzkers are villains, in my view. This is an evil family.
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