President-elect Donald Trump tweeted early Wednesday morning that the suspect in Monday’s attack at Ohio State University, a legal permanent resident of the United States, “should not have been in our country.”
ISIS is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2016
Officials told NBC News on Monday that Abdul Razak Ali Artan was a legal permanent resident of the United States.
Artan was suspected of striking pedestrians with a motor vehicle Monday morning before exiting the vehicle and attacking other bystanders with a knife. The attack left 11 wounded before a police officer shot and killed Artan.
Trump previously blamed the United States’ “immigration system” for the Pulse nightclub shooting earlier this year in Orlando, Florida.
He suggested that Omar Mateen, the man suspected of killing 49 people in the attack on the LGBT nightclub, was born in Afghanistan before correcting himself. A day earlier, law enforcement officials had said that Mateen was born in New York.
Trump later conceded that Mateen was indeed born in the United States, but insisted that the suspect’s ideas were “born from someplace else.”
My preSident. I am so proUd of Him and To be able to SaY aGaIn I am AmericaN!!!1!!!1one!!1!!!1!
it’s wonderful to have a person with 110% perfect hindsight having a twitter account to remind us how lucky we are…
[In Stephen Fry’s Jeeves voice]
“If you say so, sir”.
Reprehensible dimwit…‘I don’t LIKE how these laws work…ergo…NO LAW!!!’
After 4 minutes 30 seconds on TPM, I’m gone for the rest of the day. I don’t know how others are dealing with this descending nightmare, but I’m–no snark here–likely to spend very little time here as well as avoid most political news from now on. Like a mile wide asteroid coming from space, I can’t do a damn thing about it, it physically hurts to focus on it, and I’d rather spend my too few days focusing on the things that are positive in my life.