Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.

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:30 TV ad from Oct. 9, 2019 run nationally and locally in IA, NH, NV and SC.

[Music]

Male Announcer:  Fact.  Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its prosecutor.

Biden (clip from Council of Foreign Relations):  "If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.  Well son-of-a-bitch.  He got fired."

Male Announcer:  Fact.  The prosecutor said he was forced out for leading a corruption probe into Hunter Biden's company.

Fact.  Democrats want to impeach President Trump for discussing this investigation with Ukraine's president.

Fact.  Donald Trump won, but Democrats want to overturn the election.

Don't let them.

Trump (voiceover):  I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message.


NotesThe Oct. 9 press release from the campaign:

Trump Campaign Ad Hits Bide on Ukraine, Hunter's Sweetheart Job

President Trump’s re-election campaign today launched a new television ad again highlighting Joe Biden’s pressuring of Ukraine to fire a prosecutor looking into the company where his son Hunter worked. The ad notes that the Democrats cannot hope to defeat President Trump in 2020 so they are attempting to remove him from office instead.

The spot will be mixed into an existing national ad buy totaling $7 million the campaign previously announced. This ad will also be mixed into a $1 million buy covering local stations in New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, and South Carolina. Combined with a separate $2 million buy made by the Republican National Committee with different ads, the total buy is $10 million.



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Observations
FactCheck.org finds "the ad relies on speculation and unsupported accusations to mislead viewers."

This ad and the earlier ad attacking Biden have resonances of some of the Trump ads from Falll 2016, for example "Corruption" and "Unfit".  Then the target was Hillary Clinton, now it is Joe Biden.  In both cases there is an irony that the campaign is raising corruption charges given the many allegations of corruption and bending of the rules by Trump himself (and in both cases the challenges facing the nation go unaddressed). 

The charge that Democrats are trying overturn the election is a major argument being used by Trump and his supporters in response to the impeachment inquiry.  Use of the photo of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to represent Democrats is interesting.