President Donald Trump weighed in on the horrific Charlotte murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska and said Democrats have blood on their hands for their failed woke soft-on-crime policies.
In a post shared on X on Monday, Trump reacted to Zarutska's murder and said that Zarutska's "blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and 'Wannabe Senator' Roy Cooper."
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"I have seen the horrific video of a beautiful, young Ukrainian refugee, who came to America to escape the vicious War in Ukraine, and was innocently riding the Metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed by a mentally deranged lunatic," Trump said.
"The perpetrator was a well-known career criminal, who had been previously arrested and released on CASHLESS BAIL in January, a total of 14 TIMES," he added. "What the hell was he doing riding the train, and walking the streets? Criminals like this need to be LOCKED UP."
"North Carolina, and every State, needs LAW AND ORDER, and only Republicans will deliver it!" Trump continued. "Additionally, where is the outrage from the Mainstream Media on this horrible tragedy? VOTE FOR MICHAEL WHATLEY FOR UNITED STATES SENATE, HE WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN!"
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In an article on the White House website on Monday, it provided more proof and wrote that Zarutska's murder is the culmination of "North Carolina's Democrat politicians, prosecutors, and judges prioritizing woke agendas that fail to protect their citizens when they need them the most."
"Horrifying video released on Friday shows the moment an innocent woman was brutally murdered on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina — a shocking act of evil that didn't have to happen," the website read.
"The deranged monster had been arrested again and again for violent crimes spanning more than a decade," it added. "Despite that lengthy rap sheet, mental health issues, and forfeiting bonds on three occasions, a Democrat judge released him back on the streets following his most recent arrest in January — free to slaughter an innocent woman just months later."
"That has become the norm in Democrat-run cities, where Radical Left policies like 'no cash bail' and 'defund the police' put depraved career criminals back on the streets — free to continue raping, pillaging, and killing their way through our nation," the article continued.
The White House then provided a series of moves by Democrats since 2020 that prove this unimaginable horror could've been prevented.
Here are a few that stood out:
In 2020, then-Governor Roy Cooper established the "Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice" — co-chaired by then-Attorney General and current Governor Josh Stein — which recommended "reimagining public safety" to "promote diversion and other alternatives to arrest," "deemphasize" some felony crimes, prioritize "restorative justice," and "eliminate cash bail" for many crimes.
Over the last seven years, Mecklenburg County Criminal Justice Services has received millions of dollars from a foundation that advocates for no-cash bail and decreasing jail populations to address "inequities."
Mecklenburg County hired" equity and inclusion consultants" to address "racial disparities at all levels of the justice system" and its "Office of Equity and Inclusion" lists reducing "racial disparities and disproportionality within the criminal justice system" as among its goals.
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As my RedState colleague Sister Toldjah reported, Zarutska was murdered on August 22 on Charlotte's light rail system. On Friday, a video of the violent killing of her was released, setting off a nationwide firestorm.
She wrote:
As RedState reported at the time, Zarutska boarded the train just before 10 pm that night after her shift at a local pizzeria concluded. Less than five minutes later, Zarutska, who was still in her work uniform, was stabbed to death in a random attack by the man sitting behind her, who police have identified as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., who has a history of mental health issues, violence, and arrests, and is well known to local law enforcement.
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