Trump Campaign Threatens Legal Action Against Democratic Super Pac’s ‘False’ Coronavirus Ad

President Trump’s reelection campaign sent cease and desist letters to local news outlets on Wednesday threatening legal action if they refused to stop airing a Democratic super PAC’s ad suggesting the president called the coronavirus a “hoax.”

Priorities USA, led by a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, released the ad as part of a $6 million effort to attack Trump’s response to the pandemic, according to Fox News. Titled “Exponential Threat,” it followed other ads in splicing together Trump’s statements to make it appear as though he said: “The coronavirus, this is their new hoax.”

According to The Washington Post, Trump never made that exact statement but it was included in another ad released by former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign. The Post also determined that Trump wasn’t calling the virus itself a hoax.

The campaign highlighted the Post’s fact check along with others in the letters sent to local news outlets.

“Should you fail to immediately cease broadcasting PUSA’s ad ‘Exponential Threat,’ Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. will have no choice but to pursue all legal remedies available to it in law and in equity; we will not stand idly by and allow you to broadcast false, deceptive, and misleading information concerning President’s Trump’s healthcare positions without consequence,” read the letters, signed by campaign attorney Alex W. Cannon.

Meanwhile, President Trump has scored a victory of sorts with traditionally left-leaning Google. The digital giant has blocked all anti-Trump Coronavirus ads in an effort to minimize propaganda and false information about COVID-19.

The Chicks on the Right and Rob Kendall discussed the decision on today’s edition of Speedround.

https://omny.fm/shows/chicks-on-the-right/speed-round-google-blocks-anti-trump-coronavirus-a

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