We have to be able to handle “evil” people out there, otherwise we “don’t have a country,” President Donald Trump said in reaction to the horrific murder of a Ukrainian refugee that occurred on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed … in Charlotte by a madman — a lunatic,” Trump said, explaining that the man “just got up and started — it’s right on the tape.”

“[It’s] not really watchable, because it’s so horrible, but just viciously stabbed. She’s just sitting there,” he said. “So they’re evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.”

The brutal killing took place on August 22, 2025. The victim, identified as 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, was stabbed to death

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