Overview
- Los Angeles police said they arrested Nick Reiner on murder charges in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner, and have not publicly identified a motive.
- On Dec. 15, President Trump posted that Rob Reiner suffered from “Trump derangement syndrome” and claimed Reiner’s attacks on him provoked the anger behind the killings.
- Trump later told reporters he was “not a fan” of Reiner and called him “a very bad presence,” and he declined to apologize when asked at a White House event.
- Republicans Thomas Massie, Mike Lawler and Don Bacon criticized the remarks as inappropriate, and Marjorie Taylor Greene faulted the response to what she called a family tragedy.
- Trump’s post drew unusually negative reactions on Truth Social, while David Axelrod, Miles Taylor and Sen. Chris Murphy condemned the comments as perverse or pathological.