"Trump's Aurora Rally About an Invented Gang Takeover"

...A campaign based on fantastical lies and true believers...

...Donald Trump stopped Friday at a plush mountain hotel called Gaylord Rockies Resort just outside Aurora, Colo., to launch a Western weekend getaway — from basic reality. His rally at the resort’s convention center before thousands of true believers was real, but the story that he told this riled-up mob, and the American electorate writ large, was utter baloney....
...After his audience had been worked into a mini-frenzy by immigration-propaganda czar Stephen Miller pointing at photos of a handful of Latino immigrants accused of crimes — “Are these the neighbors you want in your city?!” — in what one critic compared to the Two-Minutes Hate from George Orwell’s 1984, the GOP nominee took the stage in front of a poster, “DEPORT ILLEGALS NOW"...
...Trump had come to cattle country to spread pure manure. It was telling that he stayed in the cloistered bubble of the resort and went nowhere near the apartment complexes he claimed are occupied by violent Venezuelan gangs — since they aren’t. “He is — and other political figures — are treating them like political pawns, which they are not,” a local housing advocate, V Reeves, told a local TV station. “They are real people with real needs.” Aurora GOP officials joined the police chief in attacking the premise of Trump’s rally, saying in an official statement, “It is tragic that select individuals and entities have mischaracterized our city” — where major crimes have fallen by 17%, year to date...