Michelle Wu faces her huge Beltway second this week in opposition to rabid proper wing Republicans together with her main protection – that Boston is the “safest city” in America – in shambles after the surprising Chick-fil-A assault within the metropolis’s crowded Again Bay.
The Boston mayor’s claims of public security are going to ring hole following the taking pictures of a knife-wielding attacker by an off-duty police officer within the quick meals restaurant this weekend.
If the town’s low taking pictures fee was going to be the muse of her look, it’s cracked now.
However Wu might nonetheless skillfully navigate her look earlier than a Home committee on Wednesday and emerge because the left wing icon of resistance to Donald Trump.
“Not my first rodeo,” she stated on Monday.
It’s unclear when Wu’s first rodeo was — perhaps the time she held a whites solely vacation get together on the Parkman Home? Or perhaps when she provided condolences over the weekend to the household of the knife wielding attacker at Chick-fil-A?
Wu’s job in Washington was made rather more tough by the weekend occasions within the coronary heart of Boston, which little question will probably be on the minds of Republican lawmakers on the panel.
Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi sharply criticized Wu for providing condolences to the household of the knife attacker, recognized as Lemark Jaramillo of Roslindale, when Wu went to the scene of the taking pictures. The mayor on the time didn’t even reward the heroic officer for saving lives.
“This DOJ will NEVER apologize for taking down dangerous criminals and getting them off our streets. Thank you to the brave law enforcement officer in Boston who stepped up to protect those in need.” Bondi wrote on X.
Bondi added that “politicians who want to apologize to criminals should not be in office.”
Wu responded on Monday that it was “unfortunate to politicize being at the scene of a tragic incident. Our officers are in extremely difficult and dangerous situations every single day … I expressed condolences … because every loss of life is a horrible tragedy.”
Irrespective of how ready Wu is for her D.C. testimony, she nonetheless might undergo the identical destiny as former Harvard President Claudine Homosexual, who withered below questioning at a congressional listening to the place she refused to say that requires the genocide of Jews violated the college’s conduct code.
Homosexual, who additionally confronted plagiarism allegations, was the second Ivy League president pressured to resign following their disastrous congressional testimony.
Little doubt the Harvard-educated Wu will probably be ready to defend her metropolis amid assaults from Republicans over Boston’s sanctuary standing for unlawful immigrants.
She will probably be one in all 4 mayors known as to testify about unlawful immigration of their metropolis, however many of the focus on the listening to will in all probability be directed at Wu, one of the vital excessive profile lefty pols within the nation.
Wu stated she plans to “stand up” for Boston and “the truth” when she testifies on Wednesday earlier than the Home Oversight Committee.
“We have already seen some materials put out in advance that seems designed to heighten interest and frame it as some kind of showdown or dramatic moment,” she stated.
“We are one of the most diverse cities…and we are the safest major city in the country,” she added.
She higher hope to provide you with a line higher than that one in Washington, or she will probably be roasted by Republicans.
Taking part in protection for Wu on Wednesday will probably be Democratic lawmakers Ayanna Pressley and Stephen Lynch, who additionally sit on the oversight committee. However Pressley, even additional to the left than Wu, might not be one of the best individual to come back to the mayor’s rescue.
