The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit Monday against an NBC affiliate in rural Wisconsin, arguing that the president had been defamed by a political attack ad about his response to the coronavirus pan…
“The coronavirus… this is their new hoax,” Trump says in the ad., Wis., argues that Trump’s words were taken out of context to distort their meaning.
“Absent the deceitful alteration of the audio, it is clear that ‘this’ does not refer to the coronavirus and instead refers directly to the Democrats’ politicization of the pandemic,” the lawsuit states.“This is pretty simple,” Cecil said. “Donald Trump doesn’t want voters to hear the truth and he’s trying to bully TV stations into submission.
The Trump campaign had earlier sent a cease and desist letter to stations airing the ad on March 25, the day after the ad was released. According to the suit, WJFW-NBC, based in Rhinelander, Wis., aired the ad another 36 times over the following 11 days.“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that right? Coronavirus, they’re politicizing it,” Trump said at the rally. “One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.
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