CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-24-18] tied the death of 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts to Democratic policies, continuing the administration’s politicization of crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants…The President’s remarks on Tibbetts come not long after the White House added the slain University of Iowa student to a list of individuals who were killed by undocumented immigrants, according to police. Trump was also seen in a video released on his Twitter account speaking about Tibbetts’ death on Thursday [8-23-18]. Tibbetts, whose body was found on Tuesday [8-21-18], went missing while she was on an evening run in July. A preliminary report from the autopsy determined her cause of death was ‘multiple sharp force injuries,’ according to the Iowa State Medical Examiner. Twenty-four-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a Mexican who came to the United States illegally, was charged in Tibbetts’ death on Wednesday after he said he had followed her while she was on her run…Trump also tied the death of a woman and the rape of a child to Democratic immigration policies since both acts were allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants.”
–Sophie Tatum, “Trump blames Democratic immigration policies for death of Mollie Tibbetts,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 24, 2018 10:21 pm