President Trump on Monday offered his condolences to the family of murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, and vowed to “confront” the “evil people” in society — after he was shown the shocking video of her being hacked to death on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“There are evil people, and we have to confront that. I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman,” Trump told reporters.
“A lunatic just got up and started — it’s right on the tape, not really watchable, because it’s so horrible, — but just viciously stabbed. She’s just sitting there. So they’re evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country,” Trump said, following Friday’s release of security footage showing the sickening killing, allegedly carried out by career criminal Decarlos Brown, 34.
The president also referenced the recent mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, which left two children dead and over a dozen wounded, and pledged to end senseless violence.
“We’re going to get to the end of it. And you know, when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions,” Trump said, before blaming cashless bail for violent criminals reoffending.
“And the actions that we take are nothing — this cashless bail started a wave in our country where a killer kills somebody and is out on the street by the afternoon, in many cases, going out and going again cashless bail,” he said.
