Republican Voters Against Trump, a political group seeking to prevent former President Trump from retaking the White House, released an ad on Tuesday suggesting that with his four criminal charges, Trump wouldn’t even be able to get a job at a mall local center.
The six-figure ad campaign used hidden camera footage of a man going to several stores saying he was looking for a job. The footprint? He said he faces 88 felonies.
The man in the film asked store managers if they would hire someone who has been found “responsible for sexual assault” or someone who tried to “overturn the 2020 election,” among other issues at the heart of Trump’s ongoing legal battles.
“If Trump is too much of a risk to get a job at the local mall, he is too much of a risk to be president of the United States,” the narrator said in the video.
According to the anti-Trump group, the ad will run nationally on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” and digitally in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The ad is being aired as Trump sits in a Manhattan courtroom in the midst of his first criminal trial, which centers on allegations that he falsified business records related to a payment he made to an adult film actress in 2016 in exchange for her silence. about an alleged affair. He faces 34 charges in the hush money case alone and has pleaded not guilty to all of them.
Despite trying to delay the trial after the November elections, Trump – the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee – made history last week as the first former or current US president to face a criminal trial in the US.
The trial, which resumed on Tuesday, is expected to last several weeks.
The ad targets undecided voters, not Trump’s MAGA base — a movement derived from his “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — who support his defense in his legal battles, the group said.
“We are sending the message that Donald Trump is not fit for office,” said Gunner Ramer, the group’s political director. said in a statement. “If your local retailer won’t hire someone with Trump’s criminal record, why should the American people elect him to the highest office in the land?”
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
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