The suburbs around the Denver area are weighing filing a lawsuit against the sanctuary city over the massive uptick in immigrant arrivals that has brought with it an increase in gang activity.The Castle Rock Town Council recently passed a motion this month instructing the town's attorney to consider a lawsuit against Denver. The city's sanctuary policies have allowed more than 42,000 immigrants to pour into the area while shielding them from federal immigration officials. 'We understand that there is a storm coming.'The motion was put forth by Castle Rock City Council member Max Brooks, who told KCNC-TV, "This isn't just a decision that Denver gets to make because it's impacting the rest of the Front Range. So the idea is to join with other municipalities and say it's time to stop.""Our town attorney's office has already had conversations with the county attorney with Douglas County, already had conversations with the city of Aurora, and also had conversations with the city of Parker," Brooks stated, indicating that other municipalities have expressed interest in joining a potential lawsuit. According to KCNC, Parker and Aurora are also weighing joining the lawsuit."I don't want a dime from Denver, I just don't want them to continue to have a policy that is having a negative impact on the Front Range," he continued. "You don't wait until the hurricane is on you to board up your windows and leave town. We understand that there is a storm coming."Brooks noted that the increase of immigrants arriving in Douglas County has led to "instances of crime.""This isn't about labeling and saying the migrants need to be deported. It's not about that. It's about stopping and making sure we're not bringing in any more when obviously Denver is not able to handle what's already happened," he added.Some parts of Aurora have recently been rocked by an increased presence of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, with reports that the violent group has taken over several apartment complexes. Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky has blamed the gang's activity on Denver's sanctuary policies."In the entire Denver metro area, it has been like pulling teeth to get anyone, the media, other elected officials, to get anyone to acknowledge the presence of this trend and to acknowledge that there is even a problem," Jurinsky previously told Fox News Digital.However, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) has claimed that the TDA's invasion of some apartment complexes is largely a figment of Jurinksy's "imagination."Earlier this year, several counties filed a lawsuit against Denver, claiming its policies "create dangerous conditions" for Colorado residents and immigrants, Blaze News previously reported. Douglas, El Paso, Elbert, Garfield, Mesa, and Rio Blanco Counties all joined that complaint. Douglas County Undersheriff Dave Walcher stated at the time, "The mission of all of us is to keep this county safe that is my job to keep Douglas County residents safe and what we've seen over the last several years dating back to 2019 in one of the bills that was discussed is the fact that it limits our ability to work with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]."Cited in the complaint are Colorado House 19-1124 and 23-1100, which the counties called "illegal and unconstitutional" for undermining federal immigration laws and regulations.The legislation prohibits state law enforcement agents from sharing information regarding illegal immigrants with federal immigration officials. District 2 Commissioner George Teal previously told KNUS, "We have a laundry list of counties and municipalities across the state who are just aching to join us on this," referring to the lawsuit. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When former President Donald Trump took the debate stage last week, David Muir didn’t ask him about the assassin’s bullet that grazed his head on national television six weeks prior. He didn’t ask Vice President Kamala Harris, either. In fact, through the entire two hours, neither he nor Harris’ sorority sister so much as mentioned one of the most dramatic moments in modern political history. The next night, Power the Future founder and sometime Blaze Media guest Daniel Turner put it succinctly: God hope [it] would never happens to anybody, [but] if it had been the vice president or Joe Biden who almost got killed at an event, the opening line to Mr. Trump would have been, 'President Trump, six weeks ago your opponent was almost killed. The political violence in this country nearly cost her her life. Is there something you would like to say to her right now that she survived this assassination attempt? And do you agree that we have reached a level of political violence that is unattainable and you hold some responsibility?’ That would have been the opening damn question 100 percent. But they didn’t talk about any of it. Instead, they let Harris play the reasonable adult and actually lecture her opponent on decency and rhetoric. They passed right over the shooting and talked about the Jan. 6 riot from nearly four years ago instead. Maybe they reasoned the kid who shot a man their friends had been calling an existential threat to democracy for eight years wasn’t relevant. First it’s a conspiracy theory. Then it’s happening, but it has nothing to do with them and doesn’t matter anyway. Muir and Linsey Davis aren’t acting alone, of course. All their Democrat media friends also wanted to move on from that whole awkward shooting thing as quickly as possible. By this past Thursday, the Washington Post was even complaining that Trump was still talking about it at all. “Trump stokes suspicions about assassination attempt, raising fears of more violence,” a Sept. 12 headline read. “After an initial period of relative restraint, the former president has begun blaming the shooting on his opponents and amplifying conspiracy theories.” Three days later, it happened again. This isn’t just Democrat bias. It’s absolute malfeasance by the American media. It's a betrayal, and it’s not really fixable. These people are demented. Trump has broken them, and they really think they’re characters in some Resistance drama about the arc of history and all that. It’s gross and it’s stupid, but that’s the reality. In September 2023, NBC published a piece headlined, “Tucker Carlson stokes conspiracies, claims U.S. is 'speeding towards' assassination of Trump,” by Daniel Arkin, a national correspondent over there. Tucker, he wrote, made the prediction “without evidence” — a common phrase media midwits use to dismiss alternative viewpoints. Ten months later, of course, Trump would be shot in a deadly attack. And 12 months after, a second gunman would be arrested. First it’s a conspiracy theory. Then it’s happening, but it has nothing to do with them and doesn’t matter anyway. You might be unsurprised to learn Arkin has restricted who can read or interact with his Twitter account. In covering the second seeming attempt, networks didn’t even play footage or pictures from the previous attempt. Instead, they used pictures from courtroom appearances. "Do you expect there to be calls within the Trump campaign to ... [tone] down the rhetoric?” MSNBC weekend anchor Alex Witt asked on the air. "[Tone] down the violence?” And so it goes. Blaze News: Suspected would-be Trump assassin's social media accounts apparently repeat left-wing alarmism: 'DEMOCRACY is on the ballot' Blaze News: Trump issues defiant statement after second assassination attempt Blaze News: Alexander Vindman tries to outdo his wife's ghoulish response to the latest attempt on Trump's life Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter.

There have been two known assassination attempts against President Donald Trump in the past 65 days. In the lead-up to the first, Democrats and their allies in the media spared no expense vilifying and dehumanizing Kamala Harris' opponent — characterizing him as a threat to democracy, to minorities, and to freedom itself. After the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Democrats and media partisans were met with desperate appeals to tone down their vitriol and incendiary rhetoric, including by a victim of a recent Democratic terrorist attack. Rather than engage in some soul-searching or exercise self-restraint, the left doubled down after both incidents. Below are five claims Democrats and/or their allies in the media advanced that effectively set the stage for attempts on Trump's life. 1. 'Democracy is on the ballot' The Washington Post complained Thursday about President Donald Trump's suggestion that he "took a bullet to the head" because of what Democrats and their allies in the media say about him. Days later, Ryan Routh, a Democratic donor with an intense interest in Ukraine's war effort, allegedly tried to assassinate Trump in Florida. New York magazine then couldn't wait a full day after the second assassination attempt to double down and restate, "Trump is a threat to democracy." Unlike Thomas Matthew Crooks, Routh had a massive online presence, which sleuths managed to document before social media companies began their routine scrub. It is clear from Routh's posts that his radical views were informed in part by Democratic talking points — that contrary to the Washington Post's suggestion, Trump was right again. Prior to his arrest, Routh reportedly posted about how "DEMOCRACY is on the ballot" this election. This is one of Kamala Harris' go-to lines, which has also been parroted by other Democrats. On July 2, Harris posted an image of Trump captioned, "Donald Trump vows to be a dictator on day one." In the corresponding message, she wrote, "Democracy is on the ballot in November." — (@) Harris has also coupled this statement with combative language. For instance, on June 21, Harris posted on Facebook, "Our democracy is on the ballot. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it." 2. 'Greatest threat' Democrats routinely refer to Trump as a threat to democracy, which appears to be a euphemism for their hold on power. 'He is a threat to our democracy and our fundamental freedoms.' Shortly after a Biden official's group got the Democratic incumbent's top rival temporarily removed from the primary ballot in Colorado late last year, Biden tweeted, "Trump poses many threats to our country: The right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America's standing in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy." Years after calling Republicans "enemies of the state," Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) similarly suggested in April that Trump is "a great threat to our democracy." The Democratic National Committee has repeatedly recycled this language. For instance, on June 27, the DNC circulated the following message: Donald Trump, who’s repeatedly promised to be a dictator on 'day one,' if elected and warned of a 'bloodbath' if not, continues to give election deniers and insurrectionists a platform — from installing dangerous conspiracy theorists to leading 'election integrity' efforts at the RNC and promising pardons for January 6 insurrectionists. Democracy is at stake this November and if Donald Trump retakes power the survival of our democracy will be at risk. Kamala Harris also claimed on June 27, "He is a threat to our democracy and our fundamental freedoms" — a line she has repeated numerous times. 3. Nazi comparisons Short on imagination and desperate for a historical parallel to underscore Trump's supposed threat to America, Democrats and their media allies decided early on they would go with Adolf Hitler. In a 2019 speech, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said that Hitler "rode a wave of nationalism and anti-Semitism to power. Replace anti-Semitism with 'all Latinos crossing our borders are rapists, drug dealers and murderers.' Does that sound familiar?" 'We'd better fight.' Johnson, who is now facing re-election, added, "Americans, particularly black Americans, can't afford to make that same mistake about the harm that could be done by a man named Hitler or a man named Trump." The Times (U.K.) noted that in December 2023, CNN talking head Jake Tapper compared Trump's rhetoric about illegal aliens to Hitler's genocidal rhetoric about Jews. "If you were to open up a copy of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf,' you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning. The Jew, Hitler wrote, 'poisons the blood of others," said Tapper. "Donald Trump's language mirrors this directly." Harris campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa similarly claimed, "Donald Trump parroted the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini — two dictators many U.S. veterans gave their lives fighting." Former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill recently suggested on MSNBC that Trump is "even more dangerous" than Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The New Republic ran a photoshopped image of Trump as Hitler on the cover of its June issue, claiming, "We at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, 'He's damn close enough, and we'd better fight.'" In an article published on the website of Poynter, the outfit that runs PolitiFact, so-called media ethicist Kelly McBride and medical ethicist Art Caplan wrote, "Trump's racist rhetoric should be viewed in the repugnant tradition of Hitler." Politico captured the essence of the article prior to its apparent deletion. There are, of course, various versions of the authoritarian smear. The Harris campaign apparently refrained from cracking a history textbook and simply suggested that Trump will sincerely become a "dictator" this time around. 4. 'Clear and present danger' In 2021, New York Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries claimed Trump was a "clear and present danger." Ocasio-Cortez said Trump presents a "clear and present danger" both to the Congress and to the country. Jeffries, who later turned his sights on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that every moment Trump is in office is a "clear and present danger to the safety and security of the American people." Former Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig resurrected this talking point a year later, claiming Trump, his allies, and his supporters remained a "clear and present danger to American democracy." The leftist press has dutifully kept this suggestion alive. The Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board, for example, ran a piece in January stating, "Donald Trump is a clear and present danger," while also making sure to play some of Democrats' other greatest hits, including "democracy is on the line." 5. 'Bull's-eye' Just days before the July 13 assassination attempt, President Joe Biden said on a private phone call with campaign donors, "I have one job, and that's to beat Donald Trump. I'm absolutely certain I'm the best person to be able to do that." Biden added on the July 8 call, "We're done talking about the debate. It's time to put Trump in a bull's-eye." Biden later told NBC News' Lester Holt, "It was a mistake to use the word." While Biden tried to retroactively soften his meaning, the damage was done. After all, he had worked to characterize Trump as a villain worthy of a bull's-eye. For instance, in his infamous red-lit September 2022 speech at Independence Historical Park in Philadelphia, Biden claimed, "MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." Although Biden's July "bull's-eye" remark is a relative standout, years earlier, Rick Wilson, the co-founder of the Lincoln Project — the anti-Trump group that staged a fake white supremacist rally in 2021 to smear then-candidate Glenn Youngkin ahead of the Virginia gubernatorial election — told MSNBC's Chris Hayes that the donor class will have to "go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump." As with Biden, the argument in defense of Wilson's language was that it was supposedly figurative. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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