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Media Blamed Chicago Cross-Burning on Trump and the Right - Then the Real Culprit Stepped Forward

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17.06.2026

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Media Blamed Chicago Cross-Burning on Trump and the Right - Then the Real Culprit Stepped Forward

No historian could write the Democratic Party’s 200-year-old story without devoting multiple chapters to its sordid history of fomenting racism.

That story continues unabated to the present day.

On Tuesday, after nearly a week of hand wringing over a cross-burning incident in Chicago’s Grant Park, WMAQ-TV in Chicago reported that city police have arrested 21-year-old Merlin Lu, who earlier admitted to the outlet that he set fire to the cross as a protest against President Donald Trump’s administration.

Lu burned the cross, he said, to protest “MAGA Christian nationalist supporters” and the Trump administration “ruling class.”

Of course he did. Had an actual white supremacist burned the cross, it would have been Trump’s fault, but now, in this case, it’s Trump’s fault anyway; that’s how these things work.

On the afternoon of June 9, the burning cross caused a ruckus in the city,........

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