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Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.
"Facts" +
: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.
Notes:
The 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.