Trump has been repeating a false claim about a grisly North Carolina murder as he attacks the state’s former governor on crime.
Since Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old who fled Ukraine, was stabbed to death on a train in North Carloina, Trump has blamed Roy Cooper, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, over the crime.
The man charged with the crime, Decarlos Brown Jr, had served time in prison and been committed for schizophrenia. But contrary to Trump’s claim that “he was released by Cooper,” Brown served his sentence and was not freed early under any Cooper policy.
Speaking at a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, Trump labelled Cooper a “murderer protector”.
– With The Associated Press