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It looks like some conservatives have had enough of Donald Trump. Two Republican, anti-Trump groups launched new TV ads attacking the president this week, and Twitterati couldn’t get enough of the blistering commercials.
One of the ads by The Lincoln Project is attempting to rile up Trump against his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who has reportedly lined his own pockets while working on the president’s reelection.
They posted it to Twitter with the caption, “This is just another example that @realDonaldTrump is the worst manager America has ever seen. Don, you got conned … by your IT guy.”
Trump’s senior advisor Kellyanne Conway, whose husband, conservative attorney George Conway is incidentally the cofounder of The Lincoln Project, the group that launched the ad.
Given the documented history of heart problems with morbidly obese off-label users of hydrocloroquine, do you think it’s safe for the president to view this ad?
— Defend the Potatos! Michael (@Merv515) May 20, 2020
In the spot running on Fox News this week, the narrator lists Parscale’s recent purchases — three Florida properties worth more than $4 million, a private yacht, and a Ferrari. It suggests that he could afford it all, thanks to his work for the Trump campaign.
The ad amused some never-Trumpers because someone was getting rich off of Trump.
I guess @parscale is getting rich off @realDonaldTrump. Good for him. https://t.co/YrtNTNM9oh
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 20, 2020
Referring to Trump’s narcissism, another Twitter user said Trump would hate that Parscale was in the spotlight instead of him.
It would be a shame if #BradParscale trended. Donald hates it when someone else is in the spotlight.
— Hamish Mitchell (@H_MitchellPhoto) May 20, 2020
Some Twitter users were disappointed that we even need anti-Trump ads since Trump’s actions (like the impeachment saga, and his coronavirus response) speak loudly for themselves.
What’s perhaps most disturbing, is that we even need such an effort for a corrupt & morally bankrupted President, an Impeached President. Trump shouldn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell of being re-elected. Scandal after scandal. 1,617,655 CV19 cases, 96,178 deaths on his watch.
— Got Humanity? (@mosaisms) May 21, 2020
Another anti-Trump GOP group, Republicans for the Rule of Law, launched an ad in Michigan, the swing state where Trump triumphed by a mere 0.23 percent in 2016. The ad is in response to Trump attacking Michigan’s expansion of voting by mail and threatening to withhold federal dollars over the move.
Republicans for the Rule of Law is airing this ad in Michigan tomorrow, ahead of President Trump’s visit, and nationally on Fox News. We hope it helps to deter President Trump from further threats against residents of Michigan and other states who wish to vote safely in November. pic.twitter.com/VlP0MvdeVX
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 20, 2020
In response to Trump’s threat, one user on the social media platform even used “Ukraine” as an adjective, referring to Trump’s move of withholding military aid from Ukraine until they announced an investigation into Biden.
I think I can speak for most of my fellow Michiganders by saying he’s not going to Ukraine us and get away with it! It’s on baby!
— Shawn Carpenter (@shawnca123) May 20, 2020
Some called the current POTUS a hypocrite because Trump has voted by mail. Once during New York’s mayoral election in 2017. Plus, he cast an absentee ballot during the state’s midterm election the next year and again used a vote-by-mail ballot in Florida’s primary election in 2020.
Let us repeat this, just this spring, Trump, while complaining about vote-by-mail fraud, mailed his absentee primary to Florida to have his vote counted.
If voting by mail is good enough for the president, it should be available to us all.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) May 21, 2020
Others pointed to the obvious: Trump is terrified that if it’s easier to vote, more people will. Which means, he could lose.
We’ve made this work securely in Ohio forever. Those afraid of high voter turn out are magically afraid of mail in voting.
— Chris Gibbs (@ChrisRGibbs) May 20, 2020
