As President Donald Trump and his administration continue to trample constitutional norms and deploy military and quasi-military forces in American cities, Colorado needs to wonder just when we will see such attempts in our state.

A central closing argument for Trump came wrapped in lies about Aurora. He said the city resembled a “ war zone ” completely overrun by murderous migrants, gangs, drug runners and sex-traffickers (a particularly ironic claim giving Trump’s close personal ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein). He did this without any regard for the truth; namely that Aurora is a vibrant city that has actually become safer in recent years despite a few more dangerous locations, a problem that plagues any city of significant size.

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