Donald Trump is holding a rally focused on immigration in Aurora, Colorado, where local officials have rejected his claim that the Denver suburb is a “war zone” taken over by Venezuelan gangs.
As they announced the rally, the Trump campaign said: “Aurora, Colorado has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua.”
During the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on September 10, Trump said: “They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently.”
The rally comes after Trump disparaged the entire city of Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday warning that the whole country could end up “a mess” like the Motor City if his Democratic rival wins November’s election, a pitch unlikely to endear him to local voters that has already inspired a major backlash.
Former president Barack Obama meanwhile delivered an impassioned speech denouncing the Republican’s character and mocking his “constant attempts to sell you stuff”, from gold sneakers to branded Bibles, during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, championing Harris’s bid for the presidency.
Trump says ‘enemy within’ is bigger threat than China and Russia
Trump argued that the “enemy within” is a bigger threat to the US than either China or Russia.
“It’s the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That’s a bigger enemy than China and Russia,” he said.
“Every day Americans … are living in fear, all because Kamala Harris decided to empty the slums and prison cells of Caracas and many other places,” Trump said.
He added: “Prison populations all over the world are down. Crime all over the world is down because they take the world’s criminals, gang members, drug dealers, and they deposit them into the United States, bus after bus after bus.”
Gustaf Kilander11 October 2024 21:29
WATCH: Trump calls for CBS’s license to be taken away
Gustaf Kilander11 October 2024 21:23
Trump says Election Day will be ‘liberation day in America’
Trump claimed during his rally that Election Day will be “liberation day in America.”
“To everyone here in Colorado and all across our nation, I make this pledge and vow to you. November 5, 2024, will be Liberation Day in America,” the former president said. “I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered. These towns have been conquered. Explain that to your governor, he doesn’t have a clue.”
Gustaf Kilander11 October 2024 21:09
WATCH: Trump falsely claims Harris used teleprompter during town hall
Town hall host Enrique Acevedo said on X, “The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue.”
Gustaf Kilander11 October 2024 21:06
Trump says Colorado has to ‘flip’ in November
Trump said Colorado has to “flip” into Republican hands in November’s election. The last Republican to win the state on the presidential level was George W Bush in 2004.
“That’s why I’m here … I’m not here for my health,” Trump said.
“I could be with the beautiful beaches all over the world. I could be in Monte Carlo. I could be all over the world … And where am I? I’m right now in Aurora, and that’s where I want to be,” he added.
Gustaf Kilander11 October 2024 21:02
Even Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Republican colleagues are outraged by her ‘loony toons’ hurricane conspiracies
House Republicans are becoming more and more frustrated with their colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene and her bizarre, and debunked, claims that Democrats are “controlling the weather” following the recent devastation caused by hurricanes in the southeastern US.
The Maga firebrand from Georgia has doubled down on her conspiracy, leading even her fellow party members to speculate that she “needs [her] head examined.”
Greene claimed online last week that “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and more than 230 in total. On Wednesday she doubled down, clarifying that she was referring to governmental organizations including NOAA.
Mike Bedigan11 October 2024 21:00
Trump pushes claim rejected by police that Aurora apartment complexes has been taken over by gangs
Trump said during his Friday rally in Aurora that he was in the city to “call the attention of the world … to one of the most egregious betrayals that any leader in any nation has ever inflicted on its own people.”
“We are being led by stupid people, we cannot take it anymore,” he added.
“Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the Third World,” the former president argued.
“From prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to pray upon innocent American citizens,” he added. “That’s what they’re doing. And in no place is it more evident than right here. Because in Aurora, multiple apartment complexes have been taken over by the savage Venezuela prison gang known as Tren de Aragua.”
Gustaf Kilander11 October 2024 20:58
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than a month as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.
With just weeks to go, a new poll now finds Trump leading in multiple swing states, with margins mostly too close to call between the two candidates.
But Trump may be losing his grip on older generations of voters, with the latest New York Times polls showing the two candidates split by a hairline — and Harris ahead by 3 points.
Alicja Hagopian11 October 2024 20:30