Trump ad shows Morocco instead of Mexican border
Trump released his first television campaign ad Monday, touting the billionaire’s promise to build a wall along the nation’s boundary with Mexico.
Asked about the discrepancy by NBC reporter Katy Tur, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski admitted the campaign knew the footage didn’t depict Mexican immigrants.
“The biased main stream media doesn’t understand, but Americans who want to protect their jobs and their families do”, the statement continued.
The number of Mexican immigrants crossing the border illegally-a group that accounts for nearly half of all undocumented immigrants in the USA, and that has drawn particular ire from Trump-actually began declining in 2007, as the US economy slowed.
PolitiFact said the footage comes from the Italian television network RepubblicaTV, which posted video on May 3, 2015 of Moroccans crossing the border into the Spanish city of Melilla. “This was 1,000% on goal”, he said.
“We’re like a third-world country”.
“I’m going to have a conversation with whoever made the mistake – there’s no doubt about that – but the truth is people are pouring through our borders which are open”, Cohen said.
But miraculously, Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks has eliminated any pretense that the footage was chosen accidentally, telling PolitiFact that the clip was chosen “intentionally”. “And we have to solve that problem”.
Donald Trump is defending an ad on border security, saying its “irrelevant” that it shows footage of Morocco’s border with a Spanish enclave instead of the us boundary with Mexico.
Clinton had claimed during last month’s Democratic presidential debate that Trump had been used in a recruitment video for the Islamic State, but news organizations found no evidence for that claim.
She endorsed Trump at a rally in Sarasota, Fla., in November.