Trump Campaign Sues Wisconsin TV Station
President Donald Trump's presidential campaign sued WJFW Rhinelander, Wisconsin, for repeatedly airing a commercial the campaign says uses misleading editing to make it seem that Trump called the coronavirus a hoax. The Priorities USA political action committee created the ad.…
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“WJFW-NBC has perpetrated a fraud on the public by recklessly broadcasting PUSA’s defamatory and false advertisement,” reads the complaint filed Monday in Price County Circuit Court. The campaign previously sent broadcasters airing the ad a cease and desist letter (see 2003270063). The campaign seeks punitive damages and a jury trial. WJFW and the White House didn’t comment Monday.