Anti-Trump ad substitutes ‘Jews’ for ‘Muslims’ in nominee’s speech on migrants

A day before Americans go to the polls, an anti-Donald Trump organization on Monday aired a 15-second commercial in Florida in which the Republican presidential candidate is falsely depicted as calling for a ban on Jews entering the US.

The clip uses a video of Trump making a December 2015 speech in which he read out a statement calling for a ban on Muslims entering the US, “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Jews entering the United States,” the ad says, dubbing the word Jews over his original use of the word Muslims.

“We changed one word. ‘Muslims’ to ‘Jews,'” the ad says. “Don’t let Trump win. No one is safe unless everyone is safe.”

The ad was paid for by Truth PAC, which “was founded to bring the truth about Donald Trump to the American people,” according to its website.

“This includes the truth about his shady business background, the truth about his racism and hateful bigotry, and most disturbing of all, the truth about his connections to Russia and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.”

The political action committee, or PAC, was launched Friday by Dick Brass, a former Microsoft and Oracle executive, and has been running the ads in Utah and Florida since, according to the Huffington Post.

The organization has aired three versions of the ad, one with a variety of ethnic group names that flash on the screen before Trump utters the word Muslims. Another, below, ran in Utah and substituted the word Mormons for the word Muslims.

An NBC reporter tweeted that a friend in South Florida said the Jew ad was running repeatedly in the heavily Jewish area of the country.

Friend says this ad is running in heavy rotation in South Florida this morning, has seen it several times https://t.co/Zvxoll2YjY

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) November 7, 2016