Less than two months before the presidential election, The New York Times’ (NYT) Jonathan Weisman tried to protect Vice President Kamala Harris’ open-border agenda by mocking then-candidate Donald Trump for pointing out that illegal alien gangs had taken over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.
“How the False Story of a Gang ‘Takeover’ in Colorado Reached Trump,” Weisman wrote.
“Caught in the middle are a number of migrants, living in dilapidated apartments that Aurora officials now call squalor, amid ‘criminal elements,’ not widespread gang activity, and unable to find or afford better,” the story read.
If you only read Weisman’s report, you’d have believed the real problem was just an “out-of-state landlord” who didn’t feel like fixing up a few units. As Weisman put it, the landlord “offered a new argument for why it couldn’t repair the buildings: Venezuelan gangs had taken over, and the property managers had been forced to flee.”
Weisman begrudgingly acknowledged the viral video showing Tren de Aragua gang members parading around the complex with weapons drawn but only long enough to couch it by arguing “documentation was scarce.”
But don’t worry, nothing to see here! And what you were seeing from Trump was nearly “fear-mongering, exaggerations, and outright lies …” according to Weisman.
Fast forward ten months, and the NYT’s Ted Conover is spreading those same “outright lies.”
“Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem,” Conover wrote. “The Truth Is Complicated.”
“The presence of young men with guns in the apartment complex, called the Edge at Lowry, was not a rarity,” Conover wrote, detailing gruesome details of the gang violence plaguing the complex. Conover reports what The Times pretended was “false” before: illegal aliens in gangs seen by residents carrying pistols and an assault rifle in the hallways.
He points out that “Democratic politicians and activists” tried to erase the “gang activity in the city as a right-wing hallucination.”
But it wasn’t just Democrats who denied the problem — it was The New York Times itself. Nor is the truth “complicated” — the media’s cover-up was.
When Democrats needed a narrative that made the realities of their open-border agenda look harmless, The Times was quick to call the reality “false” and mocked Trump for daring to do what The Times wouldn’t — highlight a major story. With the facts unchanged but the election over, The Times is pretending to bravely uncover a “complicated” story while hoping the reader forgets who helped cover up the truth in the first place.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
