Trump's campaign is trying to remove a video in which he appears to call the coronavirus a 'hoax,' saying it's misleading
Associated Press/Jacquelyn Martin
- President Donald Trump's reelection campaign has issued a cease-and-desist letter to television stations that aired what his campaign called a "patently false, misleading, and deceptive" advertisement by a political action committee.
- The opening of the video appeared to take Trump's comments out of context, though other remarks in the video did show Trump downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak.
President Donald Trump's reelection campaign has issued a cease-and-desist letter to television stations that aired what the campaign calls a "patently false, misleading, and deceptive" advertisement by a political action committee.
A video created by Priorities USA Action, a PAC that has supported Democratic presidential candidates, showed a chart of coronavirus cases that rose as Trump's past comments downplaying the virus played in the background.
The letter took issue in particular with the opening of the video, which stitched together Trump saying the phrases "the coronavirus" and "this is their new hoax."
Trump tweeted this at 9:24 pm eastern and deleted it about an hour later, just to tweet it out again.
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