Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on the wrong super PAC backing Sen. Marco Rubio to remove what they deem “misleading ads” that target the much-maligned Trump University.
In an initial press release Trump called on Conservative Solutions PAC to “immediately” retract ads that feature individuals who are claiming fraud against the now-defunct university, calling Trump’s school a “scam,” “fake,” and the candidate himself a “BS artist.” However, the ads are run by the American Future Fund.
“Donald J. Trump is requesting the immediate retraction of the ads created by Conservative Solutions PAC, which clearly was unlawfully coordinated with lightweight Senator Marco Rubio on these misleading commercials,” said the release, with Trump himself continuing to propogate the claim that the school got an A from the Better Business Bureau even though the grade ranged “between A+ and D-.”
“It’s a minor civil case I have not settled out of principle,” Trump said. “Lightweight Marco Rubio is grasping at straws and produced terrible ads featuring three people who all provided written statements praising the program. I demand an immediate retraction of this false and libelous ads. It just shows how low a failing campaign will go to help their failing candidate.”
Conservative Solutions certainly got a kick out of the accusation from Trump, saying that the real estate mogul’s wall he often mentions will “crumble in days” if it’s as good as the legal work he receives from his lawyers who got the name of the PAC wrong.
“It’s no surprise that Donald is desperately afraid of voters learning about how he’s fleeced families out of millions through his scam college, but he can’t scare us off from sharing his record and his business’s D- rating from the Better Business Bureau,” said spokesman Jeff Sadosky. “And if the wall he promises is of the same quality as the legal work he gets from his lawyers, it’ll crumble in days, as his lawyers missed the fact that THESE AREN’T EVEN OUR ADS!”
The Trump campaign sent out a revised statement about two and half hours later correcting the name of the PAC.
The Washington Post’s fact checker Glenn Kessler gave the trio of ads released by the American Future Fund a rare Geppetto checkmark, saying the ads are indeed true.
