Former President Donald Trump slammed Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday, calling him “chickens–t” for not doing more to combat a ruthless Venezuelan prison gang that has infiltrated the city of Aurora.
“They are like me. They’re in the real estate business,” Trump said of the Tren de Aragua gang, during a campaign rally in Reno, Nev. “The difference is I do it with financing. They do it with weapons that we’ve never even seen before.”
Tren de Aragua gangbangers have overrun several apartment buildings in Aurora, Colo., since the group expanded its reach in the US amid the historic surge in illegal immigration under the Harris-Biden administration.
At least 10 members of the violent prison gang have been arrested in Aurora.
“They took over complexes and they have a radical left governor who’s petrified,” Trump said, referring to Polis, who is a Democrat.
“He doesn’t want anything to do with it,” the former president continued. “He’s afraid. He’s chickens–t.”
Local officials in Denver’s suburbs have recently been weighing possible lawsuits against the sanctuary city of Denver, the state of Colorado, and the governor over policies that have allowed migrants to flow in unchecked and have blocked local governments from helping federal officials fight migrant crimes.
At least six Colorado counties have already filed lawsuits against Polis and the state because of an increase in migrant crime.
“They’re breaking down doors. They’re collecting the rent,” Trump said of the prison gang’s activities in Aurora.
“They’re shooting people. They’re smashing jaws, breaking skulls,” he added.
“If I were president now, those guys would be out of here before you left this room,” Trump vowed.
Polis, during an appearance on CNN Friday, dismissed Trump’s concerns.
“The Aurora he’s talking about is one the people of Colorado have never heard of,” the governor claimed, arguing that the city is “safer than it has ever been.”
“He didn’t really get to see it. I think he just went to a hotel, did an event there and left,” Polis added.
Trump made a campaign stop in Aurora on Friday, before the Nevada rally, where he pledged to “invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798” to counter Tren de Aragua.
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 allows the president to call for citizens of enemy nations to be “apprehended, restrained, secured and removed” if they are deemed a threat to the US during wartime.
The GOP nominee also said he would implement a 10-year prison sentence for migrants who re-enter the US after being deported and impose the death penalty on illegal migrants who kill American citizens.
