Final Trump ad shows migrants in Hungary as scene in U.S.

Posted by | November 7, 2016 13:38 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


These are migrants leaving Budapest, not Mexicans traversing where a wall will never be.

The video was shot by Nabih Bulos, a foreign correspondent working for the New York Times last year. He confirmed to The Intercept that that the footage was not licensed from him, and he would not have approved its use if asked. “When this footage was taken, thousands of refugees were on an odyssey through the Balkan corridor and Europe to escape the cataclysm ripping their country apart,” he wrote. “As a son of two Palestinian refugees who benefited from Jordan’s largesse, a naturalized American welcomed to the country even after 9/11, as well as a working conflict journalist, the last thing I would want this footage to be used for is to embody Trump’s xenophobic, repugnant message.”

If the footage was used in error, it would be an odd slip, since the Trump campaign was ridiculed for doing the exact same thing in their first ad, at the start of the year. In that commercial, released in January, as a narrator promised that Trump would “stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for,” images flashed on the screen of migrants surging across a border fence. That video, however, was recorded in a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast, Melilla, in 2014.

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4 responses to Final Trump ad shows migrants in Hungary as scene in U.S.

  1. Ned Nutley November 7th, 2016 at 14:14

    They want a rightwing utopia in third world America with dead bodies laying in the gutters and ditches, the ones who couldn’t afford food or healthcare.

  2. amersham1046 November 7th, 2016 at 15:49

    its an election what does truth have to do with it

  3. pinballsdoll November 7th, 2016 at 17:01

    It’s only fitting they go out with one last untruth

  4. William November 7th, 2016 at 17:49

    The right is good at this. They have been doing it for a long time. I remember when they played a fake crowd at a Palin book signing. It looked like the Nuremburg rally.

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/JS1NWYV1i_E

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