Trump campaign slams CNN for their cease-and-desist order over a campaign ad

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Fake News CNN sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign over an ad featuring footage from CNNโ€™s coverage of the governmentโ€™s response to the pandemic. They’re suddenly worried about fake news.

The network claims it is โ€œdeceptiveโ€ because it suggests that a CNN analyst agreed that President Trumpโ€™s actions over the travel ban saved potentially millions of lives.

โ€œA lawyer for CNNโ€™s parent company WarnerMedia has written a cease-and-desist letter to President Trumpโ€™s re-election campaign over the misleading contents of a new campaign ad,โ€ the networkย announcedย Monday. โ€œWarnerMedia says the Trump ad is misusing CNN news coverage in a way thatโ€™s โ€˜false, misleading and deceptive.’โ€

THIS IS THE EXCHANGE

โ€œMy administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat,โ€ Trump says at the start of the new campaign ad, a coronavirus response-themed ad released Sunday titled โ€œAmerican Comeback.”

The ad then cuts to various critics of Trumpโ€™s initial ban on travel from China, including presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who accuses Trump of โ€œxenophobia.โ€

That criticism is followed by a clip from CNNโ€™s Wolf Blitzer and Dr. Sanjay Gupta discussing the stay-at-home and social distancing steps recommended by the federal government and taken by the states.

โ€œIs it accurate that if these steps had not been put in placeโ€ฆit could have been 2 million people down here in the United States?โ€ asks Blitzer. โ€œYes,โ€ says Gupta as canceled flights show up on the screen.

CNNโ€˜s Brian Stelter says it is misleading because they weren’t referencing the travel ban. The dialogue in the original video supports that, but the President is also responsible for calling for the stay-at-home and social distancing guidelines. The criticism of the overlay of the travel ban suggestion is frivolous,ย only meant to embarrass the President.

It is also true that Stelter mentions 2 million people were saved and that number was first cited by Dr. Anthony Fauci and he was talking about the travel ban at the time.

IT’S AMAZING STELTER AND GUPTA DIDN’T MENTION THE TRAVEL BAN

In a letter to Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh, attorney Rick McMurtry writes it is “purposely and deceptively” edited to imply Blitzer and Gupta were giving credit to President Trump’s travel ban. [Everyone knows they would never do that.

โ€œCNN hereby demands that you discontinue airing the advertisement with the CNN clip that has been distorted in such a way as to mislead the public.โ€

It’s a very effective ad. And I have a question about all of this. Why does CNN ignore the travel ban in their reporting? It was the best move the President made. Oh, I remember, their ‘experts’ said it could backfire and they wanted to claim the President was xenophobic.

TRUMP CAMPAIGN RESPONSE

Murtaugh responded by standing by the ad and slamming CNN for โ€œonce againโ€ finding a reason to block a Trump campaign ad. The network โ€œhas now rejected multiple Trump ads that are demonstrably accurate,โ€ said Murtaugh, as reported by Stelter.

Honestly, from our point of view, don’t most people see the travel ban as part of the stay-at-home, social distancing issue [which were directed by President Trump]?

Biden has ads filled with lies, and CNN should stop airing them. Maybe CNN should take a look at them at the same time they are slamming the President’s ads.

Watch the ad:


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