The New York Times has finally admitted that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was right about the fact that a group of illegal immigrant gang members took over an apartment building in Colorado. 

The admission was made in a recently-published piece titled, "Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated."

We'll let you judge for yourself whether the truth really is that complicated, or whether the New York Times just has an allergy to the truth when it comes to President Trump.

We'll start with some background.

Background

It was in September 2024, before the presidential election, that the illegal immigrant takeover of the Colorado apartment building became a big story.

Trump, on the campaign trail, used this story as an example of the dangers of the Democrats' open borders, soft-on-crime immigration policies. The mainstream media, however, tried to claim that Trump got this situation all wrong.

The Times put out a piece, titled, "How the False Story of a Gang 'Takeover' in Colorado Reach Trump."

It wrote:

After the video of armed men went viral in August, Mr. Coffman recalled strapping on a bulletproof vest — “I looked like the Michelin Man” — to pay his first visit to the building where it was filmed. He saw nothing but frustrated renters pleading with him to intervene. When he next held a town-hall meeting with renters from the apartment complexes, he didn’t bother with security.

Mike Coffman, of course, is described as "the conservative Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado." And, he appears to have been one of the paper's sources for its report.

The latest

Now, the Times appears to be trying to cover up some of its previous reporting on the subject.

The Daily Mail sums up the situation like this:

Despite previously describing the issue as a conspiracy theory only found in the right-wing, the Times' latest article now condemns 'Democrat politicians' for suggesting Aurora residents and conservatives were merely 'crying wolf.'

But, they were not.

Here is part of what the Times wrote:

The more central Aurora became to Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, the greater the temptation among Democratic politicians and activists to wave away talk of gang activity in the city as a right-wing hallucination. But their refusal to acknowledge the violence that some residents were seeing with their own eyes came off not as reassurance but as erasure.

As is always the case with outlets such as the Times, the truth only ever seems to get out when it can no longer hurt the Democrats.