The left-wing media continued to Trumpwash the horrific murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Tuesday’s edition of The 11th Hour. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle hosted a panel, including a segment on state-federal law enforcement cooperation and the recent stabbing in Charlotte with former Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), and the two of them griped about the kind of attention the murder was receiving, including from President Trump.
Jones compared apples to oranges by referring to a past experience of his when a crime-ridden city reached out for federal support, neglecting the actual instigator of National Guard presence:
When I was the United States Attorney—a long time ago now, 20 something years ago—we had joint federal-state investigations. We had joint federal state—not just that we had task forces, we had folks working together, particularly. We had a program specifically that dealt with illegal guns. We trained local law enforcement officers. That program came because the city of Birmingham came to me and said, “We need help. We need the power of the federal government to help us with this.”
But we were strategic. We had law enforcement agents that were helping to train, working together, investigative agents, using the resources of law enforcement. We didn't call in the National Guard.
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