Trump Campaign Demands TV Stations To Nix Brutal Ad Ridiculing Him
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Trump’s re-election campaign has threatened television stations with legal action if they continue to air an ad created by a political action committee.
The legal counsel for Trump’s reelection campaign has sent a cease-and-desist letter to television stations airing the “patently false, misleading, and deceptive” ad, as quoted by Business Insider.
The video titled Exponential Threat was created by Priorities USA Action Fund, and showed a chart of coronavirus cases with unflattering comments made by Trump playing in the background. The president could be heard downplaying the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, while the graphic showed the increasing number of cases.
“The coronavirus, this is their new hoax,” Trump said in the clip. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. When you have 15 people and within a couple of days is going be down to close to zero. We really think we’ve done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand. No, I don’t take responsibility.”
According to NBC News, the quote was uttered in a Trump rally where he was reported to declare, “Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” before describing their purported “hoaxes” and assuring his supporters that the country was “doing so great.”
In the letter, the attorney accused Priorities USA of “stitching together fragments from multiple speeches by President Trump to fraudulently and maliciously imply that President Trump called the coronavirus outbreak a ‘hoax’.” The note added that Trump was referring to the “Democrat’s politicization of the coronavirus outbreak” when using the word “hoax.”
“Given the foregoing, should you fail to immediately cease broadcasting PUSA’s ad ‘Exponential Threat’, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. will have no choice but to pursue all legal remedies available to it in law and in equity,” the letter stated. “We will not stand idly by and allow you to broadcast false, deceptive, and misleading information concerning President’s Trump’s healthcare positions without consequence.”
Priorities USA, however, isn’t too worried about the legal threats. Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko tweeted, “The Trump campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter to Priorities USA for this ad. So I’m retweeting it.”
Redacted PUSA Letter by David Moye on Scribd
The trump campaign sent a cease and desist letter to Priorities USA for this ad. So I’m retweeting it. pic.twitter.com/0Q1QO9TeQT
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 26, 2020
[via HuffPost, opening image via Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com]
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