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Trump’s new immigration ad was panned as racist. Turns out it was also based on a falsehood.

Luis Bracamontes smiles at the audience in Sacramento Superior Court on Feb. 9 as the verdict was read in the killing of two law enforcement officers. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli, AP

The expletive-filled advertisement President Trump released this week, seemingly to raise fears about immigration in advance of the midterm elections, was widely denounced, with Democrats and even some Republicans criticizing it as racist.

But beyond the outrage, the ad was also reportedly based on a falsehood.

The 53-second video, shared by the president on Twitter, focuses on the courtroom behavior of Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of killing two sheriff’s deputies in California in 2014 — and repeatedly bragged about the slayings during his trial.

View the complete November 2 article by Eli Rosenberg on The Washington Post website here.

Trump urges Justice Department to ‘act’ on Comey, suggests Huma Abedin should face jail time

In an interview with the New York Times last week, Trump asserted that he has the “absolute right to do what I want with the Justice Department.” (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

The following article by David Nakamura and Matt Zapotosky was posted on the Washington Post website January 2, 2017:

President Trump on Tuesday appeared to suggest that Huma Abedin, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton, should face jail time, days after the State Department posted emails found on her estranged husband’s computer that included confidential government information.

In a tweet, Trump also urged the Justice Department to act in prosecuting Abedin and former FBI director James B. Comey, whom the president fired in May amid the mounting investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and contacts between Moscow and Trump’s campaign. Continue reading “Trump urges Justice Department to ‘act’ on Comey, suggests Huma Abedin should face jail time”