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Adam Carolla Savages ‘Fat Idiot’ JB Pritzker For Pinning Student’s Murder By Illegal On Trump

JB Pritzker at the WEF, 2023 (World Economic Forum / Wikimedia Commons)

Comedian Adam Carolla rebuked Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday after Pritzker blamed President Donald Trump for the murder of college freshman Sheridan Gorman, 18, allegedly committed by an illegal immigrant.

Despite reports that the suspect, Jose Medina-Medina, is a Venezuelan national who was released twice in 2023 under former President Joe Biden, Pritzker on Tuesday blamed the Trump administration for the killing. Carolla said on the “The Adam Carolla Show” the following day that governor’s argument did not make sense, given his state’s lax policy on illegal immigration.

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“So the problem is, you got an 18‑year‑old girl. She was executed by an illegal. You live in a sanctuary state in a sanctuary city. So, it’s Trump’s fault,” Carolla said. “He said, ‘Trump said he was going to go after the worst of the worst.’ By the way, you can just go after the worst … Trump said he was going to go after the worst of the worst, you fat idiot.”

“Here’s the deal: the guy who just got done executing this 18‑year‑old was not a criminal. He was just here in your sanctuary city illegally. He’d been caught for shoplifting,” the comedian emphasized.

“You would have complained that all he did was shoplift two years ago and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is coming after him and deporting him,” he added. “You would have fucking squealed like a stuck pig, you fat ass. Now, at some point, that guy who wasn’t the worst of the worst— he was just a shoplifter — ends up snuffing out an 18‑year‑old young girl. Now he is a killer. You got your wish, bitch.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrote in a Sunday press release that Medina-Medina was caught by U.S. Border Patrol on May 9, 2023 and released under the Biden administration. He was then arrested a second time for shoplifting in Chicago before being released on June 19, 2023.

Medina-Medina allegedly shot Gorman on Thursday near her campus at Loyola University as she tried to flee.

“This has been a terrible tragedy. And I know that the Gorman family has suffered mightily … there have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois,” Pritzker said on Tuesday. “They’re national failures, a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst.”

Democratic Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez also criticized Pritzker for blaming Trump for the murder during a Wednesday appearance on Fox News’ “America Reports.”

“[I]f you’re going to blame the federal government, then blame it where this problem began, which was under the Biden-Harris Administration that allowed 15 million people from South America, Central America, and across the oceans to come through our southern border, manipulate asylum, be poorly vetted, and then scattered to the seven winds of the United States,” Lopez said.

Pritzker repeatedly attempted to portray Chicago as safe just months before the killing, despite the city’s lengthy violent crime crisis. The governor has also clashed with Trump over ICE and backed a January lawsuit brought by his state against DHS.