Former president Bill Clinton, while campaigning on Monday for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, said Laken Riley’s death—allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant from Venezuela—”probably wouldn’t have happened” had the killer been “properly vetted.”
“You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you? They made an ad about it, about a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant,” Clinton said at a rally for Harris in Georgia. “If they had all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn’t have happened.”
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was killed in February while she was running on a trail at the University of Georgia in Athens. Authorities charged Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant, with malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, and aggravated assault with intent to rape, to which he pleaded not guilty. The trial is scheduled to begin on November 13.
The 26-year-old…
