Washington – President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign released a provocative new ad accusing Democrats of being “complicit” in the slayings of law enforcement officers by people in the U.S. illegally.
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The 30-second ad was released Saturday on the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration and amid a government shutdown. Democrats are refusing to support a spending plan unless Republicans agree to a deal to protect some 700,000 immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation.
The ad touts Trump’s pledge to build a border wall and to strengthen border security.
“Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants,” the ad said.
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called the spot “really unbelievable and so sad for our country,” in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Republicans — and even a White House official — tried to distance themselves from the spot.
“It’s done from a political organization,” White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told NBC’s Meet the Press. “It’s not done from people working inside the White House.”
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday that “I don’t know if that’s necessarily productive.”
The ad features Luis Bracamontes, who is in the U.S. illegally and allegedly killed two Northern California sheriff’s deputies in an October 2014 rampage. Bracamontes’ violent court outbursts have included regrets that he did not harm more officers.
The ad closes with a recorded endorsement by Trump.
It is what it is!
Clearly we NEED better border control. Thank you President Trump for putting this issue on the table.. Republicans and definitely demoncrats would certainly not bring this issue into focus.
Murders of policemen are at near-record lows.
Of course it’s true and it’s not just about Illegals. Supporting BLK and publicly casting aspersions on police officers has also lead to the deaths of police officers.
Way to alienate your voters
The allegation is baseless.
Factually, a correlation actually exists between Trump’s presidency and white supremacist violence…but this ideologically, Trump fed hysteria about immigrant crime is statistically nonsense. The figures are public…anyone can look up what they are.
To #6 - Your statement is baseless; according to the FBI, illegal immigrants perpetrate heinous, violent crime at a rate nearly double that of the general correlation. Also, there has never been a definitive study published by any law enforcement organization in the USA (whether at the federal, state, county, or municipal level), which has shown a statistical correlation between Trump’s Presidency and the rise of White Supremacist groups. The latter groups have been around for decades, even before Trump was born. In 1959, there were swatistika attacks on Synagogues in the NYC area, as there were in the late 1960’s. Are you going to blame that on Trump, also?