Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday escalated her war of words with the inspector general she inherited and pushed out the door.
Lightfoot saved her sharpest words for Joe Ferguson’s surprise decision to write a letter to U.S. senators considering President Joe Biden’s appointment of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel as U.S. ambassador to Japan emphatically stating there was “a complete absence of factual basis to support the claim” that Emanuel “was involved directly or indirectly in a `cover-up’ “ of Laquan McDonald shooting video.
