Friday, October 25, 2024

The worst kind of political smear is when an innocent voter's remarks are used for the wrong reasons

 A supposedly non-partisan political action committee (PAC) is under fire for using footage of an NBC News interview with a Philadelphia woman without the woman's consent in a pro-Donald Trump ad. 

The Restoration PAC cherry-picked portions of an interview Kim Burrell gave to NBC in July, before President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid to continue a national smear campaign against VP Kamala Harris. NBC did a follow-up so Burrell can set the record straight.


Unsurprisingly, reps for Restoration and the Trump campaign refused to respond to NBC's requests for comment. Whomever created the ad under the Restoration banner was in the tank for Trump, and, for all we know, could've been working independently to do a solid for the former president. The last thing Trump needs, of course, is another defamation lawsuit tied to him.

Stay tuned.

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