While Donald Trump continues to raise eyebrows with his attacks against Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, a conservative super PAC is hoping to remind voters of the duo’s close ties over the years.
Club for Growth, a free-market advocacy group that previously ran a million-dollar TV ad campaign against Trump in Iowa, released a new ad Friday that chronicles the Republican front-runner’s history of donations to both the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign.
“There’s been a lot of talk lately about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Here are the facts: Donald Trump praised Bill Clinton as the best of recent presidents. Trump donated over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. In fact, Donald Trump even donated money to elect Hillary Clinton to the Senate.”
Indeed, Federal Election Commission records show Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., made separate contributions to the former first lady’s Senate campaign in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Trump has also been criticized by several of his Republican rivals for donating around $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
The Club’s latest ad concludes with in an image of the White House: “If he gets the Republican nomination, the next thing Trump gives the Clintons might be a nice piece of real estate.”
