Trump re-election campaign cries censorship after CNN won’t air ad
Aug 15, 2017, 9:49 AM
PHOENIX — President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign claimed Tuesday that CNN refused to air an advertisement released earlier this this week.
“One of the many reasons that so many millions of Americans support President Trump is because of their complete mistrust of the mainstream news media, and the president’s refusal to allow their biased filter to interfere with his messages,” Michael Glassner, the campaign’s executive director, said in a press release.
“CNN provided further proof that the network earns this mistrust every day by censoring President Trump’s message to the American people by blocking our paid campaign ad. Clearly, the only viewpoint CNN allows on air is CNN’s.”
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, the network said it would accept the ad if images of reporters and anchors were removed.
“Anchors and reporters don’t have ‘enemies,’ as the ad states, but they do hold those in power accountable across the political spectrum and aggressively challenge false and misleading statements and investigate wrongdoing,” the statement read.
The 30-second spot is called “Let President Trump Do His Job.”
Though it appeared the network would not air the ad, it did cover the commercial in a Sunday story.
It targeted Democrats, the mainstream media and career politicians and argued that they were blocking Trump’s agenda. It labeled all of those people as enemies of the president.
The ad also boasted of more than 1 million jobs being added under Trump, the American unemployment rate hitting its lowest point since 2001 and the president’s work to create the strongest military in decades.
The latter point was more of an opinion but Trump has asked for $603 billion in defense spending in the budget while Congress proposed billions more.
