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Trump ad shows footage of migrants in Morocco, not at 'southern border'
The Hill ^ | January 4, 2015 | Caitlin Yilek

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."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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1 posted on 01/04/2016 12:39:39 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Is that the best you can come up with?


2 posted on 01/04/2016 12:40:49 PM PST by McGruff (Desperation does not look good on anyone.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The ad needs to be pulled and fixed... tone’s a tad too harsh at the beginning too...


3 posted on 01/04/2016 12:41:11 PM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

LoL. Oh ok.


4 posted on 01/04/2016 12:41:31 PM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: McGruff

It’s a boo-boo.


5 posted on 01/04/2016 12:42:17 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And if he’d shown genuine Mexicans he would be called even more racist. Can’t win with some people.


6 posted on 01/04/2016 12:43:30 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: GOPJ

The ad needs to be pulled and fixed... tone’s 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.


7 posted on 01/04/2016 12:44:47 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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?


8 posted on 01/04/2016 12:44:51 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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.


9 posted on 01/04/2016 12:45:11 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Hello, we're talking about Obama bringing terrorist to the USA.
10 posted on 01/04/2016 12:45:15 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: VanDeKoik

You mean, “What difference does it make?”


11 posted on 01/04/2016 12:45:33 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I guess Scott Walker’s ad would have shown raging Canadians.

Scott Walker campaign clarifies Canadian wall comments after backlash

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-campaign-clarifies-canadian-wall-comments-after-backlash/article_c7cc29a1-0e91-5303-99c4-89b20787b2ad.html


12 posted on 01/04/2016 12:45:57 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: McGruff
>>>Is that the best you can come up with?

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.

13 posted on 01/04/2016 12:46:44 PM PST by NELSON111
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To: donna

No, we’re talking about the roll out of Trump’s first campaign video.


14 posted on 01/04/2016 12:46:55 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: McGruff

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.


15 posted on 01/04/2016 12:47:03 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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.


16 posted on 01/04/2016 12:47:15 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Flick Lives

I have to get this off my chest, that new Donald Trump video is scary.

17 posted on 01/04/2016 12:47:32 PM PST by McGruff (Desperation does not look good on anyone.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The same ad mentions a moratorium on Muslims entering the country. At least he didn’t show East Germans scaling the Berlin Wall.


18 posted on 01/04/2016 12:47:46 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I wonder what Politifact would make of the LBJ's "Daisy" ad from 1964. LBJ was inferring if you elect Goldwater, little girls will get nuked.
19 posted on 01/04/2016 12:47:53 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: McGruff

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.


20 posted on 01/04/2016 12:48:19 PM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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