A new ad shared by President Trump that links Democrats to a twice-deported illegal immigrant who murdered two California sheriff’s deputies is being derided as racist and “sickening,” and some critics are likening it to the 1988 “Willie Horton” ad run by candidate George H.W. Bush.
The ad, which currently has top billing on the president’s Twitter page, opens with a shot of Luis Bracamontes, a Mexican immigrant who is smiling and bragging that he “killed fucking cops.”
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