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."
Could you post why you take exception with so many of CW’s posts?
You're just truly nuts.
You need to let Jesus into your life.
Proverbs 26:24-26
"A hateful person disguises himself with his speech and harbors deceit within. When he speaks graciously, don't believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart. Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his evil will be revealed in the assembly."
I don’t think Trump particularly cares about what non-Trump supporters that are Democrats or Independents think yet. He’s not engaged in a battle for the Republican nomination. He knows what his audience is.
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