The Trump campaign escalated its negative ads to call former Vice President Joe Biden the candidate terrorists favor.
On Thursday, Donald Trump Jr. interviewed his father, President Trump, on his online show Triggered and revealed a new ad by the Trump campaign, saying former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in 2011 by U.S. military and CIA operatives, endorsed Biden.
“Joe Biden received endorsements by Osama bin Laden,” a narrator in the ad says. “After our brave warriors took him out, which Joe Biden was against doing, bin Laden planned to attack Obama to make Joe Biden president, thinking that would be enough of a U.S. disaster in and of itself.”
“Joe Biden: China’s candidate, Iran’s candidate, and Osama’s candidate. We need a president who terrorists and tyrants fear,” the ad continues.
Secretive documents, which were first reported by the Washington Post in 2012, showed bin Laden wanted to kill former President Barack Obama and U.S. Gen. David Petraeus so Biden would become the president.
“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency,” bin Laden said, the documents show. “Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis.”
However, intelligence officials told the Washington Post’s David Ignatius that the terrorist’s plan never became a serious threat.
