Trump’s first ad features Morocco, not Mexico
Donald Trump’s first television campaign advert has compounded his growing reputation for misleading statements after it appeared to falsely depict Mexican immigrants trying to enter the United States.
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Donald Trump’s super-scary new campaign ad includes a scene straight out of Joe Arpaio’s nightmares: A horde of people clambering over and down embankments to make their way across the border illegally. The original video was released by the Interior Ministry in Madrid showing an “onslaught of hundreds of migrants on the wall that separates the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco”.
On May 1, 2014, about 800 Moroccan migrants tried to cross the border into Melilla, a territory of Spain.
Trump’s ad, which recaps his campaign’s greatest hits on immigration and foreign policy, is part of a plan by the billionaire to spend around $2 million a week on advertising before the Iowa caucuses on February 1 and New Hampshire’s primary on February 9.
“He’ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for”, the ad said.
Politifact rated the claim, based on the footage from Morocco, that Mexicans are swarming over “our southern border” as “Pants on fire”.
Just hours after its release, however, political experts began raising questions over some of the images uses in the ad.
When the lofty wall between Mexico and the U.S.is built and guards are posted, God help the poor guard who has to go to the bathroom.
“The biased main stream media doesn’t understand, but Americans who want to protect their jobs and their families do”, the statement continued.