Washington – President Donald Trump lashed out Friday after a jury found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier, calling the verdict “disgraceful” and suggesting Democrats will pay a price for being “weak on Crime.”
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Trump launched an aggressive series of tweets over the 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle, which he often cited during his presidential campaign to push for a wall on the Mexican border. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges Thursday.
The president began by calling it a “disgraceful verdict.” He then wrote that Zarate “came back and back over the weakly protected Obama border, always committing crimes and being violent, and yet this info was not used in court. His exoneration is a complete travesty of justice. BUILD THE WALL!”
He added that Democrats are “so weak on Crime that they will pay a big price in the 2018 and 2020 Elections.”
Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when Steinle was fatally shot in the back while walking with her father on the pier. He has called the shooting an accident and his lawyers said the case was unfairly politicized.
Trump has used the case to push for a border wall and to criticize the city’s “sanctuary city” policy, which limits local officials from cooperating with U.S. immigration authorities. During his campaign, he highlighted victims of crimes committed by immigrants in the country illegally, welcoming family members on stage at events.
Trump has previously questioned federal rulings over his travel ban efforts, referring to a judge who blocked his first travel ban as a “so-called judge.” After a federal court blocked an effort to withhold funding from “sanctuary cities” that don’t cooperate with immigration officials, he called the decision “ridiculous.”
During his campaign he heaped criticism on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel for his handling of complaints against the now-defunct Trump University.
these illegals also vote and are the Dems future.
Dems will not lose voters because they are weak in crime. This is what they prefer, they have more compassion to the perpetrator than they do the victim. Not one Hillary supporter called this a travesty of justice.
I knew that a San Francisco jury would acquit that piece of garbage; if he had been tried in Texas, he would have been convicted of second degree murder.
When is America, Israel, etc. going to modernize, and civilize?
‘THE 7 NOAHIDE LAWS,’ N O W !
The U.S. Border Patrol has 15,000 border guards who are, probably well-equipped.
What is needed is tough laws. A wall is not needed.
Who will pay? If Mexico is wont, might this create an enemy?
What if crime drops radically in Mexico after the wall is built? Then they might realize this project was a waste of money, man-power & materials?
All their res,o,uces could have been used to improve America.
Why not first try strong and fearsome laws? If this is ineffective, build a wall.
Correct?
Thanks