Republican Voters Against Trump, a political group working to prevent former President Donald Trump from taking back the White House, announced Tuesday that Trump can’t even hold a job at a local mall after facing four criminal charges. Published a suggestive advertisement.
The six-figure ad campaign featured hidden camera footage of a man visiting multiple stores saying he wanted to apply for a job. catch? He said he faces 88 felonies.
In the film, the men are accused of trying to “overturn the 2020 election” or “trying to overturn the 2020 election”, among other issues that are at the center of President Trump’s ongoing legal battles. We asked store managers whether they would hire someone who would
“If Mr. Trump is too responsible to get a job at the local mall, he is too responsible to be president of the United States,” the narrator says. said in the video.
Anti-Trump groups say the ad will air nationally on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” and digitally in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The ad is running while President Trump is sitting in a Manhattan courtroom during his first criminal trial. The case centers on allegations that he falsified business records related to payments he made to an adult film actress in 2016 in exchange for her keeping quiet about his alleged affair. He faces 34 charges in the hush money case alone, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to.
Despite attempts to delay the trial until after the November election, Republican presidential candidate Trump made history last week as the first former or current president to face a criminal trial in the United States.
The trial, which resumed Tuesday, is expected to last several weeks.
The group said the ad was aimed not at Trump’s base of voters, a movement that grew out of the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” but at voters who support Trump’s defense in the legal battle. It is said that it is targeted.
“We’re sending a message that Donald Trump is unfit for office,” said Gunner Lamar, the group’s political director. stated in a statement. “If local retailers won’t hire someone with Trump’s criminal record, why should the American people elect him to the nation’s highest office?”
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
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