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Arthur Delaney at HuffPost:

Former President Donald Trump said during a rally Tuesday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that he spoke to the family of a murder victim — a claim quickly contradicted by the family. Trump briefly mentioned that he spoke to relatives of Ruby Garcia, a 25-year-old Michigan woman allegedly murdered last month by her boyfriend, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. “Ruby’s loved ones and community are left grieving for this incredible young woman,” Trump said at the rally. “They said she had just this most contagious laughter and when she walked into a room, she lit up that room — and I’ve heard that from so many people. I spoke to some of her family.”

However, Garcia’s sister, Mavi Garcia, told a local TV station and several other news outlets that Trump had not spoken to anyone in the 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,” Mavi Garcia told Target 8, an NBC affiliate in Grand Rapids, on Tuesday. She also spoke on how Trump has politicized her sister’s death, saying, “It’s always been about illegal immigrants. 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?”

Lyin' Donald told a giant lie at a Grand Rapids, Michigan propaganda rally claiming that he spoke to the family of Ruby Garcia. Mavi Garcia, the sister of the late Ruby, stated that Trump had not spoken to anyone in the family.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — 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.

“It was shocking. I kind of stopped watching it. I’d only seen up to that, after I heard a couple of misinformations he said, I just stopped watching it,” Mavi Garcia said.