A Republican group against Donald Trump will run a brand new advert on Fox Information and CNN this week during which an sudden determine makes the authorized case towards the previous president: Trump himself.
The brand new advert from the Republican Accountability Mission highlights outdated feedback from Trump on the significance of categorised paperwork as he accused 2016 rival Hillary Clinton of mishandling delicate supplies.
“I’m going to implement all legal guidelines in regards to the safety of categorised data,” he mentioned in a clip from a 2016 rally. In a clip from 2020, he mentioned folks “go to jail for that.”
Now, Trump stands accused of doing precisely what he spoke out towards, not solely allegedly holding categorised paperwork however doing so in sloppy situations. One {photograph} reveals containers of paperwork piled up close to a rest room at his Mar-a-Lago dwelling.
“It’s time to carry Trump to Trump’s personal normal,” the voiceover within the advert states:
Trump earlier this month pled not responsible to 37 counts associated to holding these paperwork.
“Donald Trump likes to speak about throwing his political opponents in jail for mishandling categorised paperwork, however he’s the one who stole authorities secrets and techniques from the White Home and refused to offer them again,” Sarah Longwell, the group’s govt director, mentioned in a information launch. “We’re reminding Republican viewers that he needs to be held to his personal normal.”
The Republican Accountability Mission, which has launched video and billboard advert campaigns towards the previous president and his enablers in Congress, mentioned it’s spending $1 million to run the spots each nationally and in the important thing swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Wisconsin.