20 Jan 2018 9:08 pm
Isn't it amazing that this put this ad together in less than 24 hours after the shutdown began?Trump campaign ad on murder raises heat in shutdown fight.
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's presidential campaign on Saturday issued a new video ad calling Democrats "complicit" in murders committed by illegal immigrants, during a government shutdown partly triggered by an impasse over immigration.
The Trump campaign released the ad, titled "Complicit," on the anniversary of the Republican president's inauguration.
It focuses on an undocumented immigrant, Luis Bracamontes, charged in the 2014 killings of two police officers in Sacramento, California.
The man's lawyers had questioned his sanity but a judge found him mentally competent to stand trial, according to a report last week in the Sacramento Bee.
"Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants," the ad says.
The new ad is likely to anger Democrats and immigration advocates and could inflame tensions over the issue on Capitol Hill, where Democrats and Republicans were working through the weekend to reach an agreement that would reopen the government.
I'm sure they didn't have it ready to go knowing that there would be a shutdown.[/sarcasm]
https://youtu.be/U-nm0vQwO5c