Mike Coffman, the Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado, fired again at former President Donald Trump Tuesday earlier than the GOP presidential candidate’s deliberate go to to his city over false claims about its immigrant neighborhood.
Coffman issued an announcement on his Fb web page criticizing the previous president over his false feedback that claimed, with none proof, that crime was on the rise on account of Venezuelan migrants.
Mike Coffman on Aug 1, 2017.
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Trump, who first introduced up the false claims in the course of the ABC Information presidential debate in September, is scheduled to go to town Friday.
“The truth is that the considerations about Venezuelan gang exercise have been grossly exaggerated. The incidents had been restricted to a number of condominium complexes on this metropolis of greater than 400,000 residents,” Coffman stated in his assertion.
Coffman supplied Trump an opportunity to satisfy with native legislation enforcement and get extra details about town’s public security.
“Former President Trump’s go to to Aurora is a chance to indicate him and the nation that Aurora is a significantly secure metropolis – not a metropolis overrun by Venezuelan gangs,” he stated.
Aerial view of Aurora, Colo. in autumn
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Following the talk, Coffman and Aurora Metropolis Council Member and Public Security Chair Danielle Jurinsky launched an announcement about their investigations into the Tren de Aragua gang on the middle of the claims.
The officers contended the gang’s “presence in Aurora is restricted to particular properties.”
“Thus far, APD has now linked 10 individuals to TdA and has arrested eight of these individuals. Two of the eight people who had been taken into custody had been concerned in a July capturing at one of many particular properties within the metropolis which have skilled points with TdA exercise. In step with these arrests, we are able to additionally now affirm that prison exercise, together with TdA points, had considerably affected these properties,” Coffman and Jurinsky, additionally a Republican, stated within the assertion.
Regardless of the calls from officers to cease spreading exaggerated claims, Trump has continued to color Aurora as a harmful den on the marketing campaign path.
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at web site of his first assassination try in Butler, Pennsylvania on Oct. 5, 2024.
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Calling into the John Kobylt Present on KFI AM 640 on Tuesday, Trump doubled down on false and unsubstantiated anti-migrant rhetoric and lashed out in opposition to Coffman and different leaders.
“You’ve gotten many cities which are worse than Aurora. The mayor, the governor of Colorado, a liberal Democrat, [have] no thought what to do. He has no thought, and so they do not need to converse up as a result of they do not need to converse up in opposition to about, you recognize, their authorities,” he stated.
