Former President Donald Trump Tuesday held a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan to drum up support as the presumptive Republican nominee as the campaign heads into the Nov. 5 presidential election.
As he pinned much of his talking points on the crisis at the Southern Border — calling it “Biden’s border bloodbath” — he also spoke about the untimely death of Ruby Garcia.
“She lit up that room, and I’ve heard that from so many people,” Trump said in Garcia's hometown. “I spoke to some of her family.”
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But Garcia’s sister, Mavi Garcia, contradicted Trump, according to local news station Target 8.
“He did not speak with any of us," Mavi Garcia reportedly said, "so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us, and misinforming people on live TV."
Garcia's 25-year-old sister was repeatedly shot and her body discovered off of U.S. 131 in Grand Rapids on March 22 by Michigan State Police officers, the report notes.
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Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 25, has reportedly claimed responsibility for Garcia' demise, to whom he is suspected of being romantically tied.
Mavi Garcia told the outlet she felt Trump cared more about Ortiz-Vite's immigration status than her sister's life.
“It’s always been about illegal immigrants,” she reportedly said. “Nobody really speaks about when Americans do heinous crimes, and it’s kind of shocking why he would just bring up illegals. What about Americans who do heinous crimes like that?”
