Grand Rapids’ NBC affiliate reports:
The sister of murder victim Ruby Garcia said she and her family were home watching live, in disbelief, as former President Donald Trump told an audience in Grand Rapids that he had spoken with “some of her family.”
“He did not speak with any of us, so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us, and misinforming people on live TV,” Ruby Garcia’s sister, Mavi Garcia, told Target 8.
Mavi Garcia, the family spokesperson, said neither Trump nor anybody from his campaign has contacted her or anybody in her immediate family. She said her family is close and she would know if that had happened.
The Washington Post reports:
“She lit up that room, and I’ve heard that from so many people,” Trump said at a news conference in the hometown of the 25-year-old victim, Ruby Garcia. “I spoke to some of her family.”
But Garcia’s sister, acting as a family spokeswoman, said Tuesday that Trump and his campaign have not contacted her or other immediate relatives — and rebuked the GOP presidential nominee’s effort to make the case part of his calls for a border crackdown.
“It’s always been about illegal immigrants,” the victim’s sister, Mavi Garcia, told local news station Target 8. “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?”
Trump goes up to Michigan for his big speech accepting a law enforcement endorsement, and local media all over Michigan is running stories right now about how he lied in his speech about speaking to the family of a crime victim. Another home run for the stable genius.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 3, 2024
Here is Trump claiming in a speech today that he spoke to the family of Ruby Garcia and what they supposedly told him. Then Ruby Garcia’s sister who says Trump is lying about this entire thing and never spoke to a single family member. pic.twitter.com/kPVZ3HuGMH
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 3, 2024
WATCH: “Trump did not speak with any of us. It’s shocking.”
The sister of Ruby Garcia says Trump just lied about meeting with her family as he used her death to attack Biden about the border. (after blocking a bipartisan bill)
There is no bottom. Full: https://t.co/RCthuRRHHS pic.twitter.com/RcnckS9EXA
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 3, 2024