Lincoln Project to air ad castigating Republicans for ongoing support of indicted Trump
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The debate over the indictment of former President Donald Trump on the airwaves will get amped up Tuesday with a new commercial from The Lincoln Project.
Set to air on Tuesday and Wednesday on Fox News in Palm Beach County, home to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, the commercial will also run in the Bedminster, N.J., from where Trump will address the country Tuesday evening after his appearance in Miami federal court earlier that afternoon. And it will air in the Washington, D.C. market as well.
In addition, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project said it will run the commercial digitally geo-fenced around Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago Monday through Wednesday.
The commercial takes aim at Republicans supporting Trump despite, the ad said, his indictment on "one of the worst crimes imaginable" — the Espionage Act. The ad names other people that have been sent to prison for violating the law, including Ana Belen Montes, a former senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency who pleaded guilty in 2002 of spying on behalf of Cuba's communist government.
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"Trump did this to himself. He took the documents. He shared them and conspired to cover it up," the ad said. "Patriots know people who commit this crime belong in prison, not the White House."
A co-founder of the organization said it is running the ad because Republicans need to stop "undermining" the rule of law by acquiescing to the former president.
“Trump dominates the party so much that even his primary opponents are too afraid of his power to criticize him,” said Reed Galen, Lincoln Project co-founder. “Their refusal to condemn Trump is undermining the Rule of Law and continues normalizing Trump’s criminal behavior. What they are doing is traitorous and un-American.”
Antonio Fins is a politics and business editor at the Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at afins@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.
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