She added that he had filed for asylum in September 2022, but gave no additional details....
Witnesses said a man threw an incendiary device into a group of people who were taking part in a peaceful weekly demonstration to draw attention to hostages taken in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The man yelled “Free Palestine” during the attack, which left patches of grass burning in front of the county courthouse as people tried to put out flames with pieces of clothing....
Trump used the moment to once again criticize his predecessor’s immigration agenda. He has a long history of using crimes like this to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies....
Using crimes....
A terrorist also uses crime to build support for policies he favors.
It might not work well. It might — it should! — build support for the other side. If he knew he was hurting his own cause, he might be deterred. Not necessarily. He might be uncontrollably emotional or foolishly irrational. Or perhaps the policy he favors is nothing but death, destruction, discord, and chaos.But the rest of us are surely entitled to use his violence to build support for policies designed to fight violence. I know the response to that is that Trump's immigration policy is very broad and not precisely congruent with the problem of violence, but it rubs me the wrong way to hear Trump criticized for "using crimes like this." Those who oppose his immigration policies ought to take pains not to appear more upset that the violence helps Trump gain support than they are by the violence itself.
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Despite appearances, Islam has always been and remains a peaceful religion.
this isn't a new thing except possibly the venue that fellow who shot up an El Al counter in 1997, there were other instances akin to the events at the Jewish Museum, notably in Brussels some years back
"Or perhaps the policy he favors is nothing but death, destruction, discord, and chaos."
a.k.a. Evil.
But they are more upset that it might help Trump than they are by the violence itself. "Republicans pounce..." is a joke, but it is true.
You best be believing that PSA,
https://lacuna.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Big-Brother.jpg
https://asset.dopaminegirl.com/11ee02b385314baf9b1b50d62cec6939.webp
of course the Tmes has resorted to only describing him as a Colorado resident, which is like saying the Menendez brothers are a group of high school students,
One man’s “restrictionist immigration policies” are another man’s “common sense, sustainable immigration policies”.
"Those who oppose his immigration policies ought to take pains not to appear more upset that the violence helps Trump gain support than they are by the violence itself."
You want them to lie?
see Tim Blair or Norm MacDonald,
This murderous idiot’s country of origin doesn’t accept even one “Palestinian”… in fact, none of the Middle Eastern countries want anything to do with them, as trouble, up to and including revolution follows them wherever they land.
yes, General Asisi regards the likes of Soliman, much like Kilmar Abrego,
is seen by Bukele,
gspencer, it really should be piece-full, as body parts strewn all over after the typical Muzzie mayhem.
"He has a long history of using crimes like this..."
He certainly has plenty of opportunity, doesn't he? If leftists could choose between "Stop the crimes" or "Stop Trump talking about the crimes," I'm pretty sure I know their choice.
How did this happen? There is no doubt that police officers were monitoring this event and failed or were directed not to intervene.
much as with Southport, where they eventually got around to charging the stabber, but not after they went though crime against concerned citizens,
You mean the South Park police chief, yeah not so much,
remember the immigration pause of 2017, thats who this designed to stop,
"Those who oppose his immigration policies ought to take pains not to appear more upset that the violence helps Trump gain support than they are by the violence itself."
Unfortunately for the New York Time and the Democratic Party (is there a difference?) mindless hatred of Donald Trump far exceeds their capacity to feel indignation against murder, mayhem, and destruction inflicted by Hamas on Jews everywhere. Even on the October 8th, 2023, the discussion in progressive circles wasn't about how to defeat terrorism, but how the surprise attack might help Trump against Biden in 2024.
Fortunately, we're on to them. Hardly a day passes that the pubic trust in legacy media does not further erode and more defections from the Democratic Party are not welcomed into the growing New Majority.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/06/02/erick-erickson-cnn-n2413691
"to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies...."
All Trump is doing is faithfully executing the laws of the United States as he is required to do under the Take Care clause of the Constitution.
yes, but thats over a 100 years old, had we tried to deport effendi Soliman, they would say hadn't committed any crime yet, and if he had well he's Colorado man, well so was Qutb once upon a time,
This is the convoluted narrative that ensues when 'the blowback' is more worrisome than the crime.
yeah thats what I was referring to,
Enemy combatant. Send him to El Salvador
it really takes a chiropractor to straighten out this cranial inversion, that the Times engages in,
naw CECOT is too nice a place, Torah Prison on the outskirts of Cairo, is where he should have been,
Those who oppose his immigration policies ought to take pains not to appear more upset that the violence helps Trump gain support than they are by the violence itself.
Ought is not what they've been taught, nor what they've sought.
https://x.com/SonofHas/status/1929346505187512389 you can't hate them enough,
In the photos of this event one notices the Pride flag in the background. This is to remind us how responsive Islam is to the needs of the LGBT community.
https://x.com/DominicJPino/status/1929508081685192778
well priorities, in that berg
they are painstaking on what type of stone, they use, so there is that,
"his restrictionist immigration policies"
Which a majority of people agree with and vast majority think illegal immigration needs to be stopped. Restrictionist immigration policies = not having an open border.
But, the Democrat party position seems to be that while these kind of incidents are inevitable, that it is irrational to restrict immigration in any way. Why is that? Shut up they explained.
https://x.com/omriceren/status/1929489406294990938 the mushroom merrygoround,
If it's a school board meeting or a catholic mass, Right Wing Extremism is the story. If it's an illegal immigrant Muslim terrorist perpetrating a hate crime on A Holocaust survivor, Trump's reaction is the story.
"Those who oppose his immigration policies ought to take pains not to appear more upset that the violence helps Trump gain support than they are by the violence itself."
The Democrats simply aren't smart enough to do that.
It's why Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen went all the way to el Salvador to try to free that MS-13 gang banger. Their shitty politics paints them into these silly corners and they simply cannot see how their actions undermine all of their efforts.
Democrats are the party of Molotov cocktails, mostly-peaceful arson riots and sniper attacks on US Presidents. They aren't intelligent enough to ascertain whether or not this ultimately hurts their efforts. They are low-IQ individuals who don't possess this skill.
They are at war with us whether we wish it or not.
"He has a long history of using crimes like this to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies...."
As opposed to the Democrats who like to let in everybody especially the "Death to " types.
boulder made a point of being a sanctuary city, and now it reaps the whirlwind,
where is the due process for the victims of yesterday,
Restrictionist as in vetted, as in legal, as in [unPlanned] Americans first. Trump is pursuing emigration reform to mitigate progress at both ends of the bridge and throughout, and collateral damage from Democratic gerrymandering, labor arbitrage, and NYT et al support for progtessive principles including American civil liberties unburdened executed with liberal license.
Literally executed with liberal license in sanctuary jurisdictions.
There's a pervasive belief that, even though an alien is in the U.S. illegally, if he or she has any kind of immigration petition pending, they're entitled to stay until at least such time as the matter is formally and finally adjudicated. This is the whole problem that's making a mockery of our immigration laws: people arrive illegally, but once they set foot in the U.S., it's assumed they have a statutory and/or constitutional right to remain. It shouldn't work that way. The default should be that, unless you're a citizen, a green card holder, or you're here on an unexpired visa, you can be summarily deported. If you claim that you can't go back to your home country because you're in imminent peril of political persecution, then you should be deported to some other country if they'll take you, or otherwise to the first country you set foot in after leaving your own country. The burden should be on the alien to show they're entitled to remain, not on the U.S. to show that you're eligible for removal.
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/06/02/nbc-news-correspondent-finds-way-to-connect-elon-musk-to-the-boulder-terrorist-attack-n2413704 um right
“ boulder made a point of being a sanctuary city, and now it reaps the whirlwind,”
But that won’t change the mindset of the average Boulder Democrat voter in the slightest.
Trump is evil incarnate. Soliman is a mere distraction.
https://x.com/awstar11/status/1929588176353452296 i know behead me last,
"it rubs me the wrong way to hear Trump criticized for "using crimes like this."" Me too. But of course, as the very phrasing in this context shows, progs hate Trump more than attempted murder, and Jews more than illegal alien Muslim terrorists. Priorities.
The terrorist in this case is a foreign invader.
The executive under article II of the Constitution has black and white authority to protect our borders and deal with foreign invaders.
Anyone who aids and abets foreign invaders and impedes the executive in performing its duties to protect our borders and our people is committing treason the definition of.
Yeah this is a lot of people. But if they are not defeated and suppressed they will never stop not being traitors.
We are close to having a critical mass of people realize what actually needs to be done.
alot of people are still in the cave, and the coverage by legacy press, well you see the examples,
Trump used the moment to once again criticize his predecessor’s immigration agenda. He has a long history of using crimes like this to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies....
This isn’t even borderline. The New York Times is aiding and abetting foreign nationals who invade our country and kill our people.
This is treason.
We're going to have to start fighting back. Like twenty months ago.
day ending in y, for them,
“He has a long history of using crimes like this…”
Well, that implies that there’s a long history of crimes like this. Maybe that’s what should concern us.
WE don't HATE the media(D) enough.
never enough, sadly,
Media liars.
We used to allow 1-2 million legal immigrants into our sovereign nation.
Joe Biden and his Soros-controllers allowed 11-20 million people to come in ILLEGALLY.
Media fails to understand? No -they understand -t hey are just along for the ride with the corrupt democrat-Soviet party.
"Those who oppose his immigration policies ought to take pains not to appear more upset that the violence helps Trump gain support than they are by the violence itself."
But, of course, they are more upset that something might help Trump.
How can I say that? For the same reason I can predict the sun will "set" in the west tonight.
Appearances are the only real measure for the left. Hence actual "progress" is virtually invisible.
The Fishwrap of Record said…
“[Trump] has a long history of using crimes like this to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies....”
Actually, lefties have a long history of diminishing crimes like this to build support for their globalist immigration policies.
mccullough said...
“Enemy combatant. Send him to El Salvador.”
They should make him (Perp) Walk Like an Egyptian.
Illegal alien. Excess hate, criminal intent, and affirmative action.
Critical Diversity Theory informs us that people are prone to exercise liberal license to carry out judgements in intersectional color and class blocs.
It's cherry picking. The thing you have to know to judge immigration vs crime is the relative crime RATES of the two populations.
If the (illegal) immigrant population as a whole has a lower crime rate than the US population, then immigrants make us safer. If it's higher, then immigrants put us in more danger.
The US black crime rate is so high that it's likely that the illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate than the average of the US population, and in fact make us safer.
(Mechanism: immigrants comprise both perps and victims. The immigrant victim population draws off more crime from US perps than immigrant perps put on US victims, resulting in US victims being safer.)
A news story about an immigrant perp ignores that it's the rates that matter to the argument.
The only thing democrats care about is power. Period
NYT: "threw an incendiary device"
Reality: used two sprayers to coat marchers with flammable liquid, then threw a Molotov cocktail at them, resulting in a fire described as tree-height.
Another day ending in "y" at the Times.
RH said "It's cherry picking. The thing you have to know to judge immigration vs crime is the relative crime RATES of the two populations." The crime rate of illegal aliens is 100% as it's against the law to enter the US "illegally".
There is the possibility that hate, criminal intent, affirmative action, and disruption propagated by illegal aliens will not be excess but a neutralizing phenomenon.
I’m surprised that the NYT didn’t report that Trump had “pounced” on the perp’s illegal status.
If one more criminal alien enters our country that makes us less save.
Ratios don’t matter.
Guy Benson
@guypbenson
If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats & firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of “national conversation” would we be having?
Hmm. No trolls. Do you suppose the word went out that arguing for a porous border won't hasten the New World Order?
Better stick with Trump is a poopy-head.
He has a long history of using crimes like this to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies....
What the NYT admits here is, there have been a lot of crimes in which innocent people were targeted, injured and sometimes killed by illegal aliens that would have been prevented by more restrictive immigration policies.
Charles CW Cooke->
It’s interesting to note that the same people who pop up with “fascism expert here!” whenever anyone suggests that we ought to change the sales-tax rate always seem to stay deathly silent after, say, a man throws Molotov cocktails at Jews in a public park.
Terror often was used to "provoke support for the other side" at least in the short run. Acts of terror make the authorities crack down and take violent steps themselves. The state "unmasks" itself as the naked exercise of power, and this eventually produces greater resistance against the established order. See Algeria during the war of independence against France, or look at the German radicals of the 1970s. Lone assailants though, aren't playing the strategic angles, but just acting out emotionally.
Shorter NYTs: We need open borders no matter how many criminals and terrorists get in.
The NYT geniuses never stop for a second to think about the price being paid by the long list of victims, never stops to think maybe Trump has a point.
The NYT's isn't "Stupid" - they and the Democrats like open borders because they hate average Americans and know demographic change will give them power.
They have decided the victims deserve it.
Shorter NYTimes: "It was a mostly peaceful burning of Jews."
Thanks for highlighting the Benson and Cooke posts, Peachy! Spot on.
“They should make him (Perp) Walk Like an Egyptian.”
Inspiring, Rocco!
They found 16 unused Molitovs in Mohamad's place minding their own business. He only used two violently to burn Jews. So that means it is both fair and accurate to report that his Molitov cocktails were "mostly peaceful."
Althouse is admitting that the New York Times is not news; that it's DNC propaganda fueled by TDS. Subtle sometimes but always propaganda. Like Bill Maher, she recognizes and discounts it, but like Bill Maher she will not abandon her position.
Does Althouse have any doubt that if it were Obama rather than Trump trying to deport gang members, that the New York Times would be singing praises for him. If it were Biden trying to bring peace in the Ukraine, that we would hear what a great statesman he is. If were a Clinton accused of covering up a sexual escape by paying off someone, we would hear how we had to move on. The NYT is all the garbage that the DNC sees fit to print.
I hope once convicted HE IS SENT TO EL SALVADORE PRISON!!!! Least if he isn't given the death penalty.
See the pasty man, on the lawn
With fire in hand,
Don't you know?
Teh fuckin’ guy is so sick
He’s burning Jews
Won’t make the news
All the fey police in that town,
Don’t have a clue, that much is true
Didn’t take him down to the ground, they gave him hugs
Just like some clowns.
Smarter types with their metal pipes say, “hey-oh, hey-oh, hey-oh, HEY!!!
Perp walk the Egyptian”
Dear R Hardin"
If the (illegal) immigrant population as a whole has a lower crime rate than the US population, then immigrants make us safer. If it's higher, then immigrants put us in more danger.
This is a great example of lies with statics. There are more crimes in total with illegal aliens not less. The added population dilutes the averages but for the Laken Rileys of the world that means nothing. Since many the the added crimes are against the legal citizen population not the added illegal aliens, the real statistic would show the increased chances of of a citizen being the victim of a crime. This is not a negative number.
"If the (illegal) immigrant population as a whole has a lower crime rate than the US population, then immigrants make us safer."
Setting aside the fact that the data are (deliberately) insufficient to determine whether or not this is true, and completely ignoring the possible knock-on effects on overall crime rates from factors like over-crowding, lower wages, poor communication, and increased costs of housing, etc., this is STILL wrong. It's just messing with the denominator of a fraction when all that really matters is the numerator.
The problem isn't "murders per 100,000 people," but "total number of murders."
If there were, say, 10K murders and 75K rapes in a 300-million population U.S. with no immigrants, and then you added 10 million people and the overall number of murders and rapes stayed the same, you improved the crime RATE, but you didn't necessarily improve conditions for the native born if just as many of them get raped and murdered. The only way a whole bunch of notionally "safe" immigrants would make everyone else "safer" would be if crime were distributed randomly. It's not.
And don't forget that people who are against Trump's anti-illegal immigration policies are also "using crimes like this" to try and criticize Trump and his immigration policies.
I assumed rhhardin meant to criticize the NYT, but agree with OldManRick and Prof. M. Drout. I'll also add; the focus is on immigrants that entered illegal and also committing crimes, or in some cases advocating for violence. We haven't got rid of all those people yet, and courts are blocking that process.
One day, we might get to the people who just think it is ok to enter illegally, so long as they follow the law once they are here. Amongst them is people like this guy that needed to be vetted.
"He has a long history of using crimes like this to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies...."
People voted for Trump because of those policies, you know.
Restricting immigration to those who are law-abiding and are able to take care of themselves without depending on US taxpayers for their support is a bad thing because...???
Old Man Rick 6:02 - Indeed.
Iman - yes - most excellent! Thanks for noticing.
This f*ck isn't even Palestinian.
This is why God invented hollow points.
Your commentary, poetry…..thanks for that.
As we learned during the French Revolution, "Pas d'ennemis à gauche!"
No enemies to the left.
I don't see how adding illegal aliens to a population makes anyone safer from crime unless the aliens are somehow actively preventing crimes from occurring that would have occurred in the absence of the illegal aliens. If I'm wrong, then tell me where in America has the mass influx of illegal aliens resulted in a reduction in crime.
For a man of his age, his pouncing skills are sublime.
" . . . long history of using crimes like this to build support . . . ."
Think it was just today I read that Jamie Raskin now claims that this Boulder incident *proves* the need for additional gun control measures. Strange . . . it's not clear how gun control measures could possibly protect us from Moletov Cocktails.
But more importantly, isn't he using the same crime to build support of a different nature? Anyone notice? Did the NYT include that in this piece? /sarc
RichSockpuppet, PedoFredo, Mark, and Victoria are all awfully quiet around here....
Maybe they are busy at the moment in the garage making some more molotov cocktails??
"If the (illegal) immigrant population as a whole has a lower crime rate than the US population, then immigrants make us safer."
There's a very high black-on-black crime rate in the large cities and their associated counties. There's other counties which have had no murders for ten or twenty years. The Biden admin moved unvetted, illegal aliens including many gang members all through the US interior putting them in these formerly safe counties. And the criminals and gang members thus scattered through the land are murdering and raping and attacking Jews.
I think a person who understood math could have worked out these statistics for himself and avoided a display of misplaced ingenuity or, considering the horror of the attack, something worse.
A news story about an immigrant perp ignores that it's the rates that matter to the argument.
No, it's not. One of the primary reasons for rational and effective border/immigration control is to screen "immigrants" and exclude the criminals. Every country does it, mainly for that very reason.
Hardly a day passes that the pubic trust in legacy media does not further erode
All trust in the legacy media is pubic. Or better yet, pudendal, derived from the Latin word for "shame".
Anti-Jewish hate crimes hit record levels nationally in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, the last year that the FBI has available data, anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 63% to a record 1,832 incidents. Last year, religious hate crimes were up significantly in major U.S. cities, with anti-Muslim hate crimes rising 18%, and anti-Jewish ones rising for the fourth consecutive year, up 12% to a new record.
So the lies about the Biden Administration don't help lower the effect of the war that Hamas started in in 2023. But in Boulder we witnessed a one-man war. And Trump's favorite royalists running Qatar are financing Hamas' propaganda efforts.
"this Boulder incident *proves* the need for additional gun control measures."
There are way more firearms in the country than illegal aliens. Perhaps we should start with applying control measures to illegals as a sort of "proof of concept" before attempting a far more expansive project?
"I don't see how adding illegal aliens to a population makes anyone safer from crime unless the aliens are somehow actively preventing crimes from occurring that would have occurred in the absence of the illegal aliens."
They supply substitute victims. Instead of attacking you, some US perp attacks an illegal alien.
They also supply substitute perps. The rate at which they supply substitute perps and substitute victims can favor perps or victims relative to the US population. In one case they make you personally safer, in the other they make you personally more imperiled.
It's about rates, not anecdotes.
Rhardin, according to your logic, if Canada became the 51st state, the mere addition of those extra millions of people would make Americans safer. That's preposterous - - a family in St. Louis wouldn't be at any less risk of crime if Canadians were suddenly American. Nor would Canadians be LESS safe from crime. If you want to make claims about the effects of illegal immigrants on crime, you need to take a hard, careful look at empirical data at the local level. Show me a city or neighborhood where a massive influx of illegals made the streets safer.
If the 9/11 terrorists were caught on the planes mid-terrorist attack under a Trump administration, where would the modern Democrat and their media stand on the Florida men?
The funny thing is that this man is from Egypt. You know, that other country that borders Gaza and refuses to allow Palestinians to migrate there. The border fence between Gaza and Egypt is far thicker, higher, razored and concreted than anything Israel had put up. Egyptians don't want Palestinians. Yet this Egyptian claims to be fighting for Palestinians. It may be so. But more likely, he's just a other Islamist looking to kill a few Jews.
Not the people we should be allowing into the country. I guess Dr. Jill Biden didn't think about that as she ran the country with her friends.
Sorry rhhardin, but I haven't seen too many news stories either nationally or locally about a citizen killing, raping, or stealing from illegal aliens. If the MSM wanted to prove that illegal aliens "supply substitute victims" like you claim, then it would be all over the press. Another issue with your claim is that the "sanctuary city" concept is know to go out of their way to make sure crimes are not attributed to illegal aliens.
Nice try though.
The incident shows we need much LOOSER gun control. If open carry was allowed in Boulder, bystanders would have shot this guy before he successfully carried out his plan.
Apparently everybody agrees that it's rates that matter. When you get an anecdote be suspicious that it's motivated with an agenda. Not that it's false but that the reporting is designed to reach a conclusion without an argument to support it.
Especially as it seems to work - the comments fill with illegal immigrant bile and hatred.
There are enough news idiots on the left. We don't need them on the right too.
PS would you be against inner city blacks moving to safe white neighborhoods, and why?
Andrew McCabe went on the Sunday talk show circuit to criticize Kash Patel for calling this terrorist attack what it was. Now we have Botfly in the comments trying to smear Trump for supporting Qatar, without noting that Qatar kicked Hamas out of its country and the Boulder terrorist was from Egypt.
If justice had been served, McCabe would be serving another 2 years of his sentence before parole.
Of course he was another undocumented non-citizen with no legal residency overstayed-visa ex-tourist. Now let's reveal how much entitlement program government monies he had received during his protracted vacation-stay here thus far.
We really have no idea who we let into the country in the last five years, do we?
I'm for removing all aliens who do not want to be Americans. Not get American largess, be an American: Work for a living and support American values. I know some illegals want that but too bad, you jumped the line, you need to go home. I highly approve of the idea the State Department is starting revoke visas of militant anti-Americans and their families.
“PS would you be against inner city blacks moving to safe white neighborhoods, and why?“
In the Chicago area in the far south suburbs well off blacks move to new McMansion type housing developments that become nearly all black, and I assume they are very safe. Self segregation is very much a thing. They could easily move to Naperville and live with white people but they don’t seem to, Indians and Asians do.
Watching an IL railcam a commenter noted that Amtrak was delayed by a freight train being looted in Bellwood, IL I looked up the demographics: 7% white.
"PS would you be against inner city blacks moving to safe white neighborhoods, and why?"
I lived in 3 different safe white neighborhoods which inner city blacks were moved into. They're all black ghettoes now.
He has a long history of using crimes like this to build support for his restrictionist immigration policies
They're just annoyed that they can't use these crimes as effectively as Trump does.
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