WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is threatening legal action against local TV stations in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin if they don’t pull a Democratic anti-Trump commercial that uses clips of the president talking about the coronavirus outbreak.
The campaign says the ad is false. Priorities USA Action Fund, the Democratic super political action committee that created the 30-second spot and supported Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, responded by soliciting financial contributions to keep the ad on the airwaves.
Trump's campaign said the commercial contains the “false assertion” that Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax.” The ad strings together audio of recent comments by Trump in which