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Trump OK With Misleading Campaign Ads
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January 9, 2016
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2:13Now PlayingDonald Trump’s campaign caught a lot of flack for their most recent lie-filled campaign ad, but it didn’t hurt them politically. Why? Because they executed the highly complicated and technical Trump maneuver, “who gives a shit?" Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) and John Iadarola (ThinkTank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"PolitiFact promptly gave the ad its "Pants on Fire" rating, one of many such ratingsit has given the 2016 GOP presidential candidate. It noted that the footage originally aired in 2014 on an Italian news network reporting on migrants crossing the border between Morocco and Spain.
The footage was reposted online in 2015 as "1,000s of immigrants try to cross the border at once," without noting the location, which may be how the Trump campaign selected it for the ad.
Yet the campaign did not back down from the ad, calling the mistake "1,000% on purpose.””*
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