The stabbing that killed a young woman aboard a public train in Charlotte has become the latest rallying cry in the White House’s campaign to tighten its grip on Democratic-led cities, as President Donald Trump described the man who wielded the knife as a “deranged monster” who would have been in prison if not for left-leaning policies.
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