Former Biden Official Yemisi Egbewole Blasts JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson Over Responses To Sheridan Gorman Murder

Former President Joe Biden White House press office adviser Yemisi Egbewole on Sunday criticized Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for their responses to the murder of college freshman Sheridan Gorman.

Pritzker blamed President Donald Trump for Gorman’s murder, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien released twice under the Biden administration in 2023. Johnson, likewise, said the killing would not change his approach to governing. Egbewole asserted on “Fox News Live” that Pritzker’s offive released a good statement on the murder, but then he politicized it, while Johnson failed to respond sympathetically to Gorman’s family.

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“I think that the governor’s office — JB Pritzker — did a great job with his statement, calling it senseless outright, and hoping the accused goes to jail. I do think the tone, however, shifts when he brings it up in the political context,” Egbewole said. “I think you can address the grievances of the family without trying to appease the wider base that is worried about all immigrants being painted in a certain light. I think this should have just stayed directly on the grieving family and the tragic murder that happened.”