Posted on 01/04/2016 12:39:39 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's new television ad shows footage of dozens of people crossing a fence as the narrator mentions the U.S.'s "southern border" with Mexico.
The footage, however, is actually of Moroccans crossing the border into Melilla, one of two enclaves on the Moroccan coast held by Spain, according to Politifact
The narrator says the billionaire will "stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for," as the footage plays.
Politifact traced the images to an Italian television network, Repubblica TV, which posted the video on May 3, 2014. About 800 migrants tried to cross the Moroccan border on May 1, according to the network.
The network's logo and the 2014 timestamp were erased from the footage in Trump's ad.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, told Politifact that she did not know the source of the video and that she does not speak for the production company that made the ad.
A campaign manager for Trump, though, defended the use of the footage, according to NBC reporter Katy Tur.
"No shit it's not the Mexican border but that's what our country is going to look like if we don't do anything," Tur tweeted Trump's campaign manager as saying.
Politifact rated the claim, based on the footage from Morocco, that Mexicans are swarming over "our southern border" as "Pants on fire."
Is that the best you can come up with?
The ad needs to be pulled and fixed... tone’s a tad too harsh at the beginning too...
LoL. Oh ok.
It’s a boo-boo.
And if he’d shown genuine Mexicans he would be called even more racist. Can’t win with some people.
The ad needs to be pulled and fixed... toneâs a tad too harsh at the beginning too...
Call Jeb’s team. They know how to put together bland ads no one will ever talk about.
So?
It’s the SAME thing. Like how does the meaning of the ad shifts because they showed illegal immigrants scaling a fence in another part of the world?
And he shows pictures of the Russian navy during a “salute” to the American armed forces.
No wait — that was the DNC that did that.
You mean, “What difference does it make?”
I guess Scott Walker’s ad would have shown raging Canadians.
Scott Walker campaign clarifies Canadian wall comments after backlash
Well...it's absolutely NO different than when Reuters photo-shopped smoke into the images from Lebanon. I would prefer my candidates to be absolutely honest in all they do and say. We get enough false info from the dems and the GOP-E...and there is enough truth out there to keep us from using misleading info. A lie is a lie is a lie...and a misrepresentation is a lie.
No, we’re talking about the roll out of Trump’s first campaign video.
I’m no Yeb! fan, but didn’t one of his ads talking about how great America is have pictures of England in it?
I remember we all had a field day with that.
Now Donald Trump has an add the shows Morocco instead of Mexico, and everyone of the Trump supporters will say this is nothing. No big deal. Nothing to see here.
yeah, right. Whatever.
The reason Trump gives for you to vote for him is that he’s so much more competent than his competition. I just don’t see that.
I have to get this off my chest, that new Donald Trump video is scary.
The same ad mentions a moratorium on Muslims entering the country. At least he didn’t show East Germans scaling the Berlin Wall.
A campaign manager for Trump, though, defended the use of the footage, according to NBC reporter Katy Tur.
“No shit it’s not the Mexican border but that’s what our country is going to look like if we don’t do anything,” Tur tweeted Trump’s campaign manager as saying.
I regret I have but only one vote to give for Trump for my country.
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