Trump Ad About 'Chaos' in U.S. Actually Used Photo From Pro-Democracy Rally in Ukraine

[soothsayer]

https://www.adweek.com/creativity/trump-ad-about-chaos-in-u-s-actually-used-footage-from-pro-democracy-rally-in-ukraine/

And from the ever-excellent Heather Cox Richardson

Snip

The Trump campaign has released an ad suggesting that the choice in 2020 is between “PUBLIC SAFETY” and “CHAOS AND VIOLENCE.” But observers quickly noted that the image of street violence in the ad was not from America, it was from Ukraine in 2014.

And the image was not of respectable police officers defending the rule of law. It was the opposite. It was a picture taken when democratic protesters were trying to oust corrupt oligarch Viktor Yanukovych from the Ukraine presidency. Yanukovych was an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and fled to Russia when he was thrown out of office in Ukraine. Yanukovych was in power thanks to the efforts of an American adviser: Paul Manafort, the same man who took over Trump’s ailing campaign in June 2016.

So to illustrate “chaos and violence,” the Trump campaign used an image of a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch’s specialized federal police wrestling a pro-democracy protester to the ground. And Donald Trump and that oligarch won power thanks to the same advisor.

Honestly, it’s hard to see the use of the image as a mistake.

[MoonchildCA]

1. The fact that he is even using an ad about "chaos" is bewildering.

Does he realize it’s all happening under his watch?

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Understand this Ad

is a Steve Miller and Bannon crafted Ad.

[duforsure]

3. If this continues

They should classify him as a domestic terrorist , then haul him off to the Cuba prison used for them.