Donald Trump has places to be. I can think of three, in particular, all of which have the potential to decide this year’s election.
The first, obviously, is Butler, Pennsylvania. That’s where, on 13 July, Trump came within millimetres of having his head removed by a would-be assassin. As Trump turned to consult a set of immigration statistics on the big screen to his right, the assassin’s bullets missed his skull and instead grazed his ear. Even for a man who has shown a near-preternatural ability to attract luck, this seemed almost too much to believe—too much to chalk up to anything but the graceful touch of a divine hand.
What came next was just as important. As the former president rose from the floor of the stage, bloodied and surrounded by a dense huddle of Secret Service agents, he stopped, steadied himself, and then produced an electrifying show of defiance that only a true leader—a genuine man of power—could produce.
I’m not telling you anything new here, I know.
But Trump’s defiance of death, and of the forces that have tried to destroy him ever since he came down that escalator eight years ago, will not be complete until he returns to Butler and finishes the speech that was cut short by the coward Thomas Matthew Crooks. Trump is scheduled to return in October, less than a month before Americans go to the polls. The wife of Corey Comperatore, a firefighter and veteran who died a hero in the crossfire, shielding his family, has said she may join Trump on stage. What a powerful thing that would be.
I’ve said before that I believe Trump should speak without the barrier of bulletproof glass. He speaks best when he speaks directly to the people—his people—whether that’s on Twitter or at his rallies. To do so back in Butler of all places would be the ultimate gesture of defiance, but at this stage, I don’t think it matters that much. What really matters is simply that he shows up and shows the world that he is a true avatar of the American people, who refuse to be crushed, terrorised or cowed.
Big, bold, brash—unafraid.
So what about the other two places? They’re places you’ll have heard a lot about in recent weeks if you’ve been following the news. Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio.
Trump’s presence in Aurora and Springfield is necessary not to cement his reputation as an American badass, but because these places represent, perhaps best of all, the dismal failures of the Biden-Harris administration, particularly on immigration, and of the American elite that for decades has been asset-stripping the nation for its own enrichment. That’s the elite the MAGA movement, under Donald Trump, has made its sworn enemy.
Aurora has seen a massive influx of Venezuelans, including the vicious Tren de Aragua gang, which has taken over housing blocks and openly moves through areas of the city with heavy weaponry. You’ve probably seen the videos.
One US official has described Tren de Aragua as “MS-13 on steroids.” The group operates across the US, but in Colorado, things are particularly bad. Gang members have reportedly been given authorization to shoot at police, and they do.
The gang specializes in drug and human trafficking. Taking over housing blocks and hotels is their MO, allowing them to set up bases of operation from which to distribute drugs and coordinate the movement of people, as well as to recruit migrants to serve as footsoldiers.
The problem with Tren de Aragua is made worse by so-called “sanctuary cities,” which refuse to share information about the gang to immigration authorities including ICE. Aurora is not a sanctuary city.
As with Aurora, the problems of Springfield, Ohio are the fault of the Biden-Harris administration and its utterly chaotic immigration policy, but the effects are more calculated. This small city was once home to around 60,000 people, but since 2021, 20,000 Haitians have been deliberately imported to the city, as a means of “revitalizing” it with cheap labour as a spur for industry. That’s a full one-third of the population, basically overnight.
Claims about the situation in Springfield, and in particular that domestic pets and animals in local parks are being captured and butchered by the city’s new residents, have dominated the news cycle in recent days and figured prominently in Tuesday night’s presidential debate. The media and the Harris campaign have done their best to ridicule Trump and claim he’s just “making things up” again. The audience at a recent Tim Walz event was reduced to chanting “We’re not eating cats.” Yes, really. Look it up.
Haiti is famous for three things: grinding poverty, voodoo and a licence with food sources that extends to human flesh and biscuits made from mud (they’re called “bonbons de té”). Prince Phillip once said of the Cantonese, “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it,” but I suspect even that level of discernment escapes the Haitians. They’ll literally eat anything.
But we don’t have to speculate or join dots, because photographs and video footage are now circulating on social media of cats being killed and skinned and roasted by Haitians, back home and in Ohio.
It’s all true. Of course it is.
The media and the Harris campaign are now being forced into a desperate motte-and-bailey defence of why cat-eating isn’t actually happening but it’s a good thing that it is. You know what they do.
Trump needs to go to Aurora and Springfield and make it impossible for the media to look away. He needs to speak to the residents of these cities and allow them to tell their stories, freely and without fear of reprisal. To say what it’s really like to be subject to the terror of a heavily armed Venezuelan drug gang. To say what it’s really like to have your sleepy hometown invaded by tens of thousands of cat-eating Haitians.
But most of all he needs to make it clear, in Springfield especially, that this is the future of America—of towns and cities across the length and breadth of the nation—if Kamala Harris wins this November.
Like so many towns and cities in the Rust Belt, Springfield fell on hard times when manufacturing collapsed in the 1980s. A formerly prosperous city, Springfield became a husk of what it had once been. A hopeless place, stalked by unemployment and then the dreadful scourge of opioids.
The Biden-Harris plan to “fix” Springfield didn’t involve offering its young people relief from the blue pills and the hopelessness by providing jobs and education programs. It involved abandoning them to their fate and replacing them with a new client demographic from abroad.
What arrogance. What hatred for the American people.
Trump needs to show the American people the depth of betrayal, stretching back decades, that has led to the dreadful situation in Springfield. He needs to make sure the residents of every single town and city across the Rust Belt and the rest of the country know that they won’t be spared either. They too will be abandoned and replaced.
Winning this election depends on Trump being in the right places at the right time. Those places are Butler, Pennsylvania, Aurora, Colorado and Springfield Ohio—and the time is now.
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