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Remember this from the NY Times because they, and the rest of the Credentialed Media, say the opposite of Orange Man Bad? (via Hot Air)

How the False Story of a Gang ‘Takeover’ in Colorado Reached Trump

Mike Coffman, the conservative Republican mayor of Aurora, Colo., said he was at home on Tuesday night watching the presidential debate and bracing for the worst.

And then there it was again, before tens of millions of viewers: former President Donald J. Trump, describing Mr. Coffman’s Aurora, a sprawling suburb just east of Denver, as a city under siege, terrorized by migrants.

“They’re taking over buildings,” Mr. Trump said. “They’re going in violently.”

Mr. Coffman was contrite on Thursday as he told that story. After all, he had helped create the tall tale now sullying his city’s reputation.

So, basically, a long, long article from September 2024 about how it was all a Trump lie. There weren’t any Tren de Aragua gang members. Oh, about that, 10 months late, with Let’s Go Brandon gone

Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated.” 

(recitation of what happened originally)

Jurinsky and other Republicans pointed to the Romeros’ video as evidence that large numbers of Tren de Aragua members had come with the influx of migrants. Democratic politicians suggested they were crying wolf: “There is no gang takeover in any part of Aurora,” Representative Jason Crow, of Colorado, posted on X. A representative for Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, said that the “purported invasion is largely a feature of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination,” condemning what he called “recent misinformation campaigns.” The Aurora Police Department did not say whether it had verified the authenticity of the video or if arrests had been made in connection with the shooting.

So, Democrats like the people at the NY Times who denied it? It’s an incredibly long piece, which they try and make complicated.

By that point, the department had suspected for many months that there might be Tren de Aragua members in the Denver area. According to The Denver Gazette, police officers concerned about recent shootings exchanged emails seeking information about the gang as early as September 2023. John Fabbricatore, a former ICE field-office director in Denver who was then running for Congress, publicly condemned what he saw as Morris’s failure to address Tren de Aragua. But in conversation he suggested to me, in her defense, that her predecessor, Art Acevedo, had also sat on the information, wanting to avoid alarms on the eve of his departure. “I believe that he left Heather with a bag of trash,” Fabbricatore said. (Acevedo called that characterization “ridiculous.” “Our department was understaffed,” he said, “but we started working on it right away.”)

So, basically, they all knew back a year before Orange Man Bad said anything that TDA was present in the greater Denver area. And all those trying to deny it to protect Biden and illegal aliens/migrants were lying. And the news media wonders why there is so little trust in them.