President Trump pointed the finger at Joe Biden and JB Pritzker on Wednesday night, blaming their immigration policies for the murder of Chicago-area college student Sheridan Gorman.
“Less than one week ago, a precious 18-year-old college student named Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed while walking in a park, innocently,” Trump said at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) annual fundraising dinner in Washington, DC.
“The illegal alien monster charged with Sheridan’s brutal murder had come illegally from Venezuela and had been released into our country by Sleepy Joe Biden … pathetic, worst president,“ the president fumed.
Loyola freshman Sheridan Gorman, 18, was allegedly shot dead by illegal immigrant Jose Medina-Medina, 25. Instagram / Sheridan GormanTrump said Gorman’s alleged murderer, Jose Medina-Medina, “was then arrested again and released again by the Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, one of the worst governors in the history of our country, in the sanctuary city of Chicago.”
Medina-Medina crossed the border illegally during Biden’s presidency in May 2023 and was released into the country.
He was then arrested for shoplifting from a Macy’s in Chicago, but was let go under the city’s sanctuary policies.
Medina-Medina allegedly pulled a gun on Gorman and her friends last Thursday near Chicago’s lakefront and shot the teenager in the head.
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Security cameras captured the entire attack and Medina-Medina was quickly arrested and charged with killing the Westchester, NY native, who was a student at Chicago’s Loyola University.
“Democrat politicians don’t care about the American blood they spill in their very demented pursuit of these open borders,” the president argued.
In May 2023, Medina-Medina was apprehended by Border Patrol and released during the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security. DHSTrump said as part of the “quest to restore public safety … corrupt Democrat officials who conspire to obstruct federal law” must be held accountable.
The president also claimed it would be “easy” for federal law enforcement to address crime in Chicago if Pritzker – whom he referred to as a “slob” – would invite them in.
“We could go to Chicago if that slob would allow us – if he’d just say, ‘Please come, Mr. President. People are being killed here all the time. Please come.’ I would come and you would have no crime practically,” Trump said. “Chicago would be easy for us, but they don’t want to say that because they actually, I think, like it.
“I don’t know, they’re sick people.”
