Despite the dead legacy media's best attempts to completely ignore the story, the murder in late August of Iryna Zarutska is getting the attention they all desperately hoped that it wouldn't. People were outraged on X throughout the weekend, and when President Trump announced yesterday that he would be looking into it, the left's plan to memory hole the horror of a Ukrainian refugee woman getting stabbed on a subway by a 14-time criminal was dashed to pieces for good.
Of course, their solution was to run with 'Republicans pounce.' Because we don't hate the media enough and never could.
Democrat politicians were also hoping not to have to address this all-too-common occurrence in leftist cities. Yesterday, the mayor of Charlotte got lambasted on X for her half-hearted response to Zarutska's murder.
This morning, it was North Carolina Governor Josh Stein's turn to get ratioed into oblivion. Stein had said nothing about the video all weekend and then tried to pretend that he was tough on crime this morning.
Wow. Big mistake.
... police officers. I call upon the legislature to pass my law enforcement recruitment and retention package to address vacancies in our state and local agencies so they can stop these horrific crimes and hold violent criminals accountable.
Why was Stein heartbroken and appalled only this morning? Why was he not heartbroken and appalled yesterday? Or Saturday night? Or at any point over the past two weeks since Zarutska was butchered?
Yeah. We all know why.
The gall to try to blame the police for this murderer walking the streets when it is obvious to everyone that it is Democrat policies that allow criminals to run free constantly.
It got MUCH worse for Stein.
When criminals are locked up, crime goes down. When they are not, crime goes up.
It's not exactly rocket surgery.
Two outstanding ideas that Stein will never even entertain, let alone embrace.
Make no mistake. Stein is not 'appalled' at all.
He just has to say that he is now that the story has gone viral.
Stein was only elected governor in 2024. Before that, however, he was North Carolina's Attorney General for eight years.
His policies are DIRECTLY responsible. He'll even tell you himself:
Oops.
And shame on him for waiting until he was forced to comment.
Instead of this crime, what did Stein tweet about over the weekend? Fixing the DMV in North Carolina.
Unbelievable. Or, we should probably say, 'all too believable.'
Sadly, the next gubernatorial election is not until 2028, and there is no process to recall the governor in North Carolina.
But judging by the reaction to Stein's too-little-too-late, blame-shifting post on X today, it's going to be a long few years for him.
And he deserves every bit of the dragging he took.
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