Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump on Friday tied the death of 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts to Democratic policies, continuing the administration's politicization of crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants. "Democrat immigration policies are destroying innocent lives and spilling very innocent blood," Trump said in while speaking in Ohio. Trump was also seen in a video released on his Twitter account speaking about Tibbetts' death on Thursday. A preliminary report from the autopsy determined her cause of death was "multiple sharp force injuries," according to the Iowa State Medical Examiner. Twenty-four-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a Mexican who came to the United States illegally, was charged in Tibbetts' death on Wednesday after he said he had followed her while she was on her run.

Source: CNN August 25, 2018 00:11 UTC