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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Trump wades into Ukraine refugee’s murder case claiming ‘Democrats have her blood on their hands’

President Donald Trump has waded into the brutal murder of a Ukrainian refugee on a train in North Carolina to lay the blame at the door of Democrats, whom he accuses of “refusing to put bad people in jail.”

Iryna Zarutska, who had only recently arrived in the U.S. from her war-torn homeland, boarded the train in South End, Charlotte, just after 9.45pm on Friday August 22 when she was attacked by another passenger.

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