Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is getting support from another former NFL player.
After retired stars Antonio Brown and Brett Favre voiced their preference for Trump, retired Denver Broncos defensive lineman and Super Bowl winner Derek Wolfe stumped for the 45th President at a recent event in Aurora, Colorado on Friday.
‘Make sure you vote early, because you know they’re gonna cheat,’ the 34-year-old Wolfe told the crowd at the event, which focused on undocumented immigrants. ‘So get your votes in early. They’re gonna cheat. And that fight starts by casting a vote for somebody that’s gonna put America first. And I believe that man is Donald J. Trump, baby.
‘So make sure you get everybody you know to go cast that vote this November because that’s gonna be really important because we cannot let them cheat us again,’ Wolfe continued, repeating Trump’s unproven claims of election fraud in 2020.
Trump’s candidacy wasn’t the only issue on Wolfe’s mind. He was also concerned with a proposed ban on mountain lion and bobcat hunting in Colorado, where he’s made his home since retiring in 2022.
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Derek Wolfe hoists the Super Bowl trophy on the City and County Building steps during the Denver Broncos Super Bowl championship celebration and parade on February 9, 2016
Wolfe, who once criticized his NFL colleagues for kneeling during the national anthem in protest of racist police brutality, implored the crowd in Aurora on Friday to vote down the ban.
‘And don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes,’ Wolfe continued, without specifying whom he was speaking of. ‘There’s a lot of other propositions on there like 127 with a mountain lion [hunting] ban. Make sure that you vote ‘no’ on that one, please.’
Wolfe ended his message by sharing his love for the Centennial State, his country, and Trump.
‘I love you Colorado,’ he said to the cheering crowd. ‘This is my home. I’m raising my family here. And I told you, I’m digging my feet in. My heels are dug in. The line is drawn. God bless Colorado, God bless America, and God bless Donald J. Trump.’
A University of Cincinnati product, Wolfe was a regular starter over nine NFL seasons, most of which was spent in Denver. He was a key member of the 2016-17 Broncos who defeated the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl 50.
Supporters of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer for him during a campaign rally at Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora
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Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit the Denver suburb that has become central to republican criticism of the Joe Biden regime. His rally in Aurora marked the first time ahead of the November election that either presidential campaign has visited Colorado, which reliably votes Democratic statewide.
The Republican nominee has long promised to stage the largest deportation operation in US history and has made immigration core to his political persona since the day he launched his first campaign in 2015. Over the last few months, Trump has pinpointed specific smaller communities that have seen large arrivals of migrants, with tensions flaring locally over resources and some longtime residents expressing distrust about sudden demographic changes.
Aurora entered the spotlight in August when a video circulated showing armed men walking through an apartment building housing Venezuelan migrants. Trump has claimed extensively that Venezuelan gangs are taking over buildings, even though authorities say that was a single block of the suburb near Denver, and the area is again safe.
Ignoring those denials from local authorities, Trump painted a picture of apartment complexes overrun by ‘barbaric thugs’ and streets unsafe to travel, blaming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic rival.
‘They’re ruining your state,’ Trump said of the Democrats in the White House.
‘No person who has inflicted the violence and terror that Kamala Harris has inflicted on this community can ever be allowed to become the president of the United States,’ Trump added.
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, walks onto the stage
Trump often used dehumanizing language, referring to his political rivals as ‘scum’ who are destroying ‘the fabric of your culture’ and to migrants as ‘ animals ‘ who have ‘invaded and conquered’ Aurora. The town is ‘infected by Venezuela,’ he said.
‘We have to clean out our country,’ Trump said. And he reprised the first controversy of his career in politics, when he launched his 2016 campaign by saying migrants are rapists and bring drugs and crime.
‘I took a lot of heat for saying it, but I was right,’ Trump said Friday, repeating the false claim that other countries are emptying their prisons and mental institutions and dumping their worst criminals in the United States.
To thunderous applause, he called for the death penalty ‘for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.’
Trump announced that as president he’d launch ‘Operation Aurora’ to focus on deporting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua , or TDA. The violent gang traces its origins more than a decade to an infamously lawless prison with hardened criminals.
Trump also repeated his pledge to invoke the Alien Enemies Act , a 1798 law that allows the president to deport any noncitizen who is from a country that the US is at war with.
In July, the Biden administration issued a sanction against the gang and offered $12 million in rewards for the arrest of three leaders.
