Mollie Tibbetts' father slams 'heartless' Donald Trump Jr in new op-ed, says his daughter is "not a pawn in other's debates"
The slain Iowa University student Mollie Tibbetts' father, Rob Tibbetts, wrote an opinion piece in the Des Moines Register a day after President Donald Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. blamed Democrats for the 20-year-old's death in the same newspaper. Trump lashed out at Trump Jr. and others using the student's death to promote their own political agendas.
Mollie's father said that he has requested people to not politicize her death but some people have continued to do so and he finds it "despicable" and "heartless." The 20-year-old Iowa student’s body was found covered with corn stalks last month in a cornfield in Guernsey. Tibbetts went missing nearly a month ago on July 18 when she went jogging at around 7.30 p.m. in the small town of Brooklyn, Iowa and had not been heard from since. It was later revealed that she had been allegedly killed by a 24-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, Cristhian Bahena Rivera.