JD Vance rebukes ABC’s Martha Raddatz as she tries to downplay Venezuelan gang takeover in Colorado: ‘Are you listening to yourself?’

Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance On Sunday, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz was assaulted when she tried to fact-check the Ohio senator’s appearance. Venezuelan migrant gang in Aurora, Colo.,

Former President Donald Trump, 78, Stumped in Denver suburb on Friday and alleged that the Tren de Aragua (TDA) crime syndicate had “taken over” the city.

“The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes — apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers responded to those concerns,” Raddatz, 71, told Vance on ABC’s “This Week.”

“Martha, do you hear yourself?” Vance, 40, asked, clearly taken aback by the reporter’s objection. “Only ‘a handful of apartment complexes’ in the US were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and the problem is Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris’s open borders?”.

“Americans are very fed up with what’s going on,” Vance continued, “and they have every right to do so. And I really find this exchange, Martha, interesting, because it seems That you’re more focused on making a mess of everything.” Donald Trump has said rather than admitting that apartment complexes in the United States are being taken over by violent gangs.

Raddatz later tried again, saying the TDA “did not invade or occupy the city, as Donald Trump said.”

“Some apartment complex, no big deal,” Vance replied immediately.

At least 10 individuals with ties to the TDA were arrested in September after gang members took over a Whispering Pines apartment complex in a “stranglehold” and engaged in extortion, child prostitution and other criminal acts . According to Denver Law Firm Who investigated the situation.

TdA is estimated to have approximately 5,000 members between the US and Venezuela.

“We have to get American communities back to a safe place,” Vance said Sunday. “And unfortunately, when you let millions of people in, most of whom haven’t been screened, most of whom you don’t know who they really are, you’re going to have problems like this.”

During his rally last Friday, Trump vowed to crack down on gangs, pledging: “We will use ICE, Border Patrol and federal law to arrest and deport every last member of the illegal alien gang. Will send special squads of enforcement officers until not even a single member escapes.” Abandoned in this country.”

Raddatz’s fact-check referenced Republican Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman’s rebuke of the former president’s comments.

“The city and the state have not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘taken over’ by immigrant gangs,” Coffman said after Friday’s rally. “The incidents that have occurred in Aurora, a city of 400,000 people, have been limited to a few specific apartment complexes, and our dedicated police officers have responded to those concerns and will continue to do so.”