Trump's First Harris Campaign Attack Ad Has Some Embarrassingly Misleading Elements

Donald Trump tied Vice President Kamala Harris to “America’s border crisis” in a campaign ad that showed a series of misleading images, including those from the former president’s first term, the Washington Post has revealed.

A narrator for the Trump campaign ad, the first one attacking Harris after she joined the 2024 race last month, declared that Harris had “failed” Americans due to Biden administration policies on the southern border. The ad then heads to a slideshow of images showing people making border crossings.

But at least three of the pictures, which appear to be taken from Getty Images, were snapped at the U.S.-Mexico border back in 2018 when Trump was in office, the Post noted.

Another photo from the ad was taken in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2019.

“Under Harris, over 10 million illegally here,” said the narrator as the images appeared in the ad.

The Post’s report was later flagged by Ian Sam, a Harris campaign spokesperson who recently left the Biden White House.

Details on the ad stem from a Washington Post investigation into misleading 2024 campaign ads including the one from the GOP presidential nominee, which referred to Harris as “America’s border czar” (she never held such a title).

Trump put out a misleading, first campaign ad during the 2016 election cycle, as well, as an ad echoing his call to “stop illegal immigration” showed footage of migrants crossing the border from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Melilla, PolitiFact noted.

Read more at The Washington Post.