Trump’s campaign is trying to remove a video in which he appears to call the coronavirus a ‘hoax,’ saying it’s misleading

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has issued a cease-and-desist letter to television stations that aired what the campaign calls a “patently false, misleading, and deceptive” advertisement by a political action committee.

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A video created by Priorities USA Action, a PAC that has supported Democratic presidential candidates, showed a chart of coronavirus cases that rose as Trump’s past comments downplaying the virus played in the background.

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The letter took issue in particular with the opening of the video, which stitched together Trump saying the phrases “the coronavirus” and “this is their new hoax.”

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