Unlike many criminal defendants, former president Donald Trump is not shy about attacking prosecutors who have brought charges against him. His presidential campaign is airing this television ad, which attacks the three prosecutors who have charged him with felonies, as well as New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who has sued the Trump family and the Trump Organization on charges they engaged in widespread fraud. The ad includes Trump’s voice at the end saying, “I’m Donald J. Trump and I approve this message.”
Most of the prosecutors get just one-line attacks. More than half of the 60-second ad focuses on Willis (D), the district attorney for Georgia’s Fulton County. Willis charged Trump with seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an indictment unveiled Monday night after a 2-year investigation.
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The Trump campaign provided The Fact Checker with the source material for the claims, with Trump spokesman Steven Cheung saying “the ad cleared legal from all the networks.” But upon inspection, three of the four claims made in the ad fall apart pretty quickly. Here’s our assessment of the statements, in the order they appear in the ad. After the ad appeared, Willis sent an email to her staff saying it contained “derogatory and false information about me.”
Since this is a roundup, we’re not issuing a Pinocchio rating — but three of these claims fall in the Three-to-Four-Pinocchio range.
“So incompetent,...
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