‘The View’ Tries To Pin Horrific Train Murder On President Trump

The hosts of ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday discussed the horrific stabbing that took place on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in late August, and quickly concluded that President Donald Trump was actually to blame for it.

Cohost Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the discussion by noting the seriousness of the situation. “Look, a young woman is dead,” she said before criticizing those who would bring politics into the conversation. “A man who should have been behind bars was loose and out … he was a schizophrenic man. His mother begged them to take him and put him away. So stop politicizing this! This is not political! This has to do with how we take care of our sick Americans when they are in need.”

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Joy Behar blames Trump and Republicans for Iryna Zaruska’s murder:
“But that’s why it is political. That’s why it is exactly why it is a political situation because in the first 40 days of the Trump administration, this one, they terminated 128 grants from the National Institute… pic.twitter.com/mhlkPER2QD

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Cohost Joy Behar responded by immediately politicizing the tragedy, claiming, “That’s why it is exactly why it is a political situation because in the first 40 days of the Trump administration, this one, they terminated 128 grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. In May they cut $1 billion in federal grants for mental health services.”

Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, billed as the lone Republican on the panel despite a 2024 vote for Kamala Harris, tried to dial back the politics slightly. “I don’t think most Americans hear a tragedy and see that video footage and think is this the Democrat or Republicans fault? They think what went wrong and what could the solution be?”

She then identified bail reform as a problem, but failed to connect it to the Democratic policies that it so often accompanies.

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Sara Haines calls for “something between prison and walking free that keeps everyone safe.”
Adding: “If you refuse medical treatment and are this sort of risk you should never be out and about when the red flags were raised.” pic.twitter.com/2wEAyhEu0g

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Sara Haines made the case for a sort of halfway house, but was not clear on how to make sure the people who should be kept off the streets could be made to go there.

Saying that what was truly needed was “something between prison and walking free that keeps everyone safe,” she added, “If you refuse medical treatment and are this sort of risk you should never be out and about when the red flags were raised.”

“We need to take care of people that are mentally ill,” Sunny Hostin declared. “It is a pandemic at this point. It is a pandemic at this point.”

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Whoopi demands “stop trying to place blood on people’s hands” by pointing out the failing of Democratic crime politics.
She chides Republicans for pointing fingers at Democrats because the right is really to blame:
“Every time you blame somebody for this it makes people say,… pic.twitter.com/hpC9l6Ubc7

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Goldberg wrapped up the conversation by once again scolding Republicans for calling out the Democratic policies that have encouraged crime in nearly every major city nationwide. Instead, she blamed Republicans: “Every time you blame somebody for this it makes people say, ‘well, you let it happen because you made these cuts … you got to be a help and not a hindrance!'”

The murder took place on August 22, when 14-time repeat offender Decarlos Johnson Jr. — who was reportedly aboard the train without a ticket — stood up and stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who had been sitting quietly in front of him and looking at her phone. While she bled out in her seat, Johnson stood up and walked to the door, calmly removing his sweatshirt as her blood dripped onto the floor.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, after giving lip service to the victim and her family, went on a lengthy rant about the state of mental health care and resources in North Carolina. She failed to mention that Johnson had already seen 14 court cases in Mecklenburg County alone and had been released on his own recognizance at his last court appearance. She also did not mention that the Charlotte District Attorney’s Office was under-resourced, with only 85 active prosecutors and a backlog of three hundred homicide cases.