At a Grand Rapids, Michigan, campaign event on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump told his supporters that he had spoken to the family of Ruby Garcia, a 25-year-old woman who was allegedly murdered by an undocumented immigrant.
But Garcia’s sister said Trump didn’t speak with anyone from the family, and she criticized him for politicizing her sister’s death.
“He did not speak with any of us,” Ruby’s sister, Marvi Garcia, said in an interview with NBC affiliate WOOD-TV. “So it’s kind of shocking seeing that he had said he had spoken with us … misinforming people on live TV,” she said.
When asked to confirm if Trump had indeed spoken with a member of Ruby Garcia’s family, the Trump campaign declined to comment on the record. A source familiar said the campaign keeps the details of whom he speaks to and the contents of the conversations private unless the family agrees to share them.
“It’s always been about illegal immigrants,” she 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 this?”
