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Dwyane Wade 'conflicted' over Donald Trump using cousin's death 'for political gain'

Chicago Bulls guard Dwyane Wade told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday that he did not like that presidential candidate Donald Trump used Wade's cousin's death "for political gain," but he was pleased with the fact that Trump's tweet brought attention to the violence in Chicago.

Last Saturday, a day after Wade's cousin, Nykea Aldridge, was hit in the head by a stray bullet and killed on Chicago's South Side while pushing her child in a stroller, Trump tweeted the following (after deleting a near-identical tweet that referred to him as "Dwayne Wade"):

Dwyane Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago.