O'Rourke Blasts as 'Disgrace' New Trump Ad About Biden: 'Call This Exactly What It Is: Propaganda'

[highplainsdem]

https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/beto-orourke-blasts-as-disgrace-new-trump-ad-about-joe-biden-call-this-exactly-what-it-is-propaganda/

Democratic president candidate Beto O’Rourke offered a strong show of solidarity for fellow 2020 competitor Joe Biden over President Donald Trump’s new campaign ad targeting the former vice president.

O’Rourke called out the president’s ad on Twitter, while not linking to the 30-second video posted on YouTube on Friday. Blasting it as a “disgrace,” the former Texas Congressman said “every one of us needs to call this exactly what it is: propaganda.”

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The Trump 2020 campaign’s spot begins with the misleading claim the Biden “promised Ukraine $1 billion if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company.” In fact, Biden was leveraging the US government’s aid package when he called on Ukraine to fire a corrupt state prosecutor that numerous Western governments — and Ukraine’s own parliament — had sought to remove. In addition, the prosecutor in question had begun to investigate a Ukrainian gas company before Biden’s son, Hunter, started to work for it and that prosecutor had abandoned the investigation prior to the vice president urging his ouster.

The ad then claims that the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is an attempt to both subvert the 2016 election and “steal this one.”

Kudos to Beto!

This is his tweet:

Link to tweet

Trump’s ad about Joe Biden is a disgrace. Every one of us needs to call this exactly what it is: propaganda. Doing anything less is playing right into his hands.

He's right. Everyone needs to speak up on this.

Especially our candidates.

But also everyone in the media who isn't serving Trump.

[Cha]

1. Gracias, Beto! Well Said!

Mahalo, highplainsdem!

Shame on anyone who tries to smear Hunter Biden..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12516202

[highplainsdem]

9. Yes, it was, Cha! I really admire Beto.

[Cha]

11. Definitely!

[emmaverybo]

2. "Especially our candidates." All of them. They need to stand up against Trump's attack on Joe Biden.

[Cha]

3. Yes, because it's the patriotic thing to do.. and..

Link to tweet

[emmaverybo]

5. Excellent comment, yours Cha, and the tweet should be a wake-up call.

[Cha]

7. Mahalo, emmaverybo!

Link to tweet

Definitely a Wake UP Call!

[emmaverybo]

8. Big difference in the story when a few facts are presented. Then there is no story, just the usual

pack of lies.

[murielm99]

6. Joe will be the one who fights back,

and does so effectively.

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. Way to go Beto!

[treestar]

10. It is actually Dotard procedure to think

that firing a prosecutor would matter. They would just be replaced. Does he think everything is a personal matter? He just doesn't get it.