by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current
October 9, 2022
During a visit to rural Nevada on Saturday, former President Donald Trump painted a picture of Las Vegas and other American cities as “drenched in the blood of innocent victims,” and boasted that “the largest crowd I’ve ever seen” was January 6.
With less than five weeks to go before the 2022 midterm elections, Trump visited Minden, Nevada to rally support for candidates he has endorsed in the state’s biggest political races. The rally, including opening remarks from Nevada Republicans, was broadcast on C-SPAN.
Trump dedicated a portion of his nearly 90-minute speech at the Minden-Tahoe Airport to recent criminal investigations in Las Vegas that made national headlines, including a mass stabbing on the Strip and the capture of an escaped Nevada prisoner convicted of murder in the 2007 Luxor bombing.
“You can’t walk down a street in a Democratic run city without being shot, or mugged, or knifed,” Trump said.
In the speech riddled with inaccuracies, Trump claimed the fugitive criminal “went on a rampage” after escaping a state prison.
However, Porfirio Duarte-Herrera who’s serving a life sentence, went missing for four days without notice after escaping using battery acid to break down the window frame and a dummy in his cell. He was ultimately apprehended in Las Vegas after he was spotted by a shuttle bus company employee who contacted police.
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