A lawyer for President Trump’s campaign issued a cease and desist letter yesterday to a Democratic Super PAC, Priorities USA, demanding that it stop running an ad criticizing his response to the Coronavirus by Noah_Kirsch
Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesA lawyer for President Trump’s campaign issued a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday to a Democratic Super PAC, Priorities USA, demanding that it stop running an ad criticizing his response to the coronavirus.stitches together various quotes from the president, including one where he states, “This is their new hoax,” seemingly in reference to the COVID-19 virus itself.
The Trump campaign’s attorney, Alex Cannon, says the remarks were taken out of context, and that Trump “was referring to the Democrat’s politicization of the coronavirus outbreak when he used the word ‘hoax.’” , Trump has not disputed the existence of the coronavirus—affirming his campaign’s statement—though he has downplayed its severity, often to the extreme dismay of public health officials.
On January 22, 2020, for instance, he stated that the U.S. had the virus “totally under control,” even as officials were failing to test citizens for the virus at an adequate pace. Since then infection rates have skyrocketed.that, “We will not let the Trump campaign intimidate us from telling the truth.” The PAC plans to run the advertisement in Arizona beginning this Saturday.
In the months to come, there will inevitably be an information war on social media and television over whether the Trump administration should be credited or excoriated for its response to the COVID-19 outbreak.Priorities USA previously supported Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and will likely offer support to Joe Biden in 2020. Its donors include film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg , Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw and billionaire Jonathan Tisch .
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