Anti-Trump Group To Spend $600k Running Controversial "Hoax" Ad In Arizona (WATCH ad, READ cease and desist)

An anti-Trump Super PAC announced this morning that it will spend $600,000 in Arizona over the next few weeks to air an ad that the President's campaign is demanding stations not air.

Priorities USA Action responded to yesterday's cease and desist letters in other battleground states by doubling down and buying air time in Phoenix and Tucson for the ad. (The ad is below.)

Guy Cecil, the Chair of the committee, was defiant: "The fact that Trump is going to such great

lengths to keep the American people from hearing his own words adds to the urgency of communicating them far and wide. Trump doesn't want voters to know the truth. We will not be intimidated."

The Trump campaign made its cease and desist letter public yesterday and noted that Fox News agreed not to air the ad. It claims that the President's well-publicized "hoax" comment referred to the Democrats' politicization of the crisis, and not the virus itself. The letter leans heavily - without irony - on several articles from mainstream media fact-checkers that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's campaign misleadingly tried to make it seem the comment referred to the latter. (The cease and desist letter is below.)

At the SC "hoax" rally

As transcribed in the Trump letter, here is the "hoax" statement by the President at a rally. (It would appear both sides have an argument.)

"Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs, you say, “How’s President Trump doing?”, “Oh, nothing, nothing.” They have no clue, they don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa, they can’t even count. No, they can’t. They can’t count their votes. One of my people came up to me and said, “Mr. President, they
tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.” That didn’t work out too
well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was
on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over,
they’ve been doing it since he got in. It’s all turning, they lost. It’s all
turning, think of it, think of it. And this is their new hoax. But you know
we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We have 15 people in this
massive country and because of the fact that we went early, we went early,
we could have had a lot more than that."

Priorities USA Action discloses its donors, and its two largest are well-known contributors Donald Sussman and George Soros' Democracy PAC.

Here is the ad, followed by the cease and desist letter

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