Global Courant
A Republican group opposed Donald Trump will display a new ad Fox news And CNN this week in which an unexpected figure files a lawsuit against the former president: Trump himself.
The new advertisement of the Republican accountability project highlights old Trump comments about the importance of classified documents, as he accused the 2016 rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling sensitive materials.
“I will enforce all laws regarding the protection of classified information,” he said in a clip from a rally in 2016. In a 2020 clip, he said people “go to jail for that”.
Now Trump is being accused of doing exactly what he spoke out against, not only allegedly keeping secret documents, but doing so under shoddy circumstances. A photo shows boxes of documents piled up near a toilet at his home in Mar-a-Lago.
“It’s time to hold Trump to Trump’s own standard,” says the voiceover in the ad:
Trump earlier this month pleaded not guilty to 37 counts regarding the retention of those documents.
“Donald Trump likes to talk about the fact that he threw his political opponents in jail for mishandling classified documents, but he is the one who stole government secrets from the White House and refused to give them back,” said Sarah Longwell, executive director of the organization, in a news report. Edition. “We remind Republican viewers that he should be held to his own standards.”
The Republican Accountability Project, which has launched video and billboard ad campaigns against the former president and his congressional facilitators, said it is spending $1 million to run the spots nationally and in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Wisconsin. run.
