Trump campaign accuses CNN of censorship for not airing 'president's enemies' ad
President Trump’s re-election campaign said CNN had blocked its latest campaign ad, accusing the network of censorship.
The ad in question blasts Democrats, the media and career politicians. Additionally, it implies that members of the media are “the president’s enemies.” During a voiceover using that phrase, the ad features clips of journalists, many of whom work for CNN.
Campaign executive director Michael Glassner said millions of Americans support the president because of their “complete mistrust” in mainstream media.
“Today, CNN provided further proof that the network earns this mistrust every day by censoring President Trump’s message to the American people by blocking our paid campaign ad,” he said in a statement. “Clearly, the only viewpoint CNN allows on the air is CNN’s.”
Glassner called CNN’s decision “censorship.”
“This will not stop or deny our message that ‘President Trump’s plan is working’ for the American people,” he said.
CNN did not immediately return a request for comment.
This isn’t the first time the campaign has blasted CNN for refusing to air an ad. Back in May, CNN did not air an ad about Trump’s first 100 days in office. The network said at the time that the ad was false because of it inclusion of a graphic calling the mainstream media “fake news.”
The campaign’s Tuesday statement is also just the latest in ongoing animosity between the network and the president and his surrogates. On Monday, the president called CNN’s Jim Acosta “fake news” during a face-to-face exchange. And earlier Tuesday, the president retweeted a cartoon that depicted a train running over CNN, thought the White House said this was inadvertent and the retweet has since been deleted.
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