In one of the most racially charged US political ads in decades, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party accuse Democrats in Congress of plotting to help Central American migrants invade the country and kill police.
Trump tweeted the new web video on Thursday, five days before the midterm congressional elections.
The political ad is the most extreme step yet in the most inflammatory closing argument of any election campaign in recent memory, according to a CNN report.
“The Trump campaign ad is the latest example of the President’s willingness to lie and fear-monger in order to tear at racial and societal divides; to embrace demagoguery to bolster his own political power and the cause of the Republican midterm campaign,” the report said.
The web video features Luis Bracamontes, a Mexican man who had previously been deported but returned to the United States and killed two sheriff’s deputies in the state of California in…