Ex-ambassador says Trump campaign fanning hatred with new ad

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke is denouncing President Donald Trump for a new campaign ad that seems to falsely imply Locke was a Chinese official.

Trump’s Republican reelection campaign released an ad Thursday that accused former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, of being too cozy with China. It featured an image of Biden and Locke on a stage with U.S. and Chinese flags in the background.

Locke, an Asian American, said Friday that Trump and his team are “fanning hatred” at a time when hate crimes and discrimination against Asian Americans are on the rise. He said in a statement that “the Trump team is making it worse” and that “Asian Americans are Americans. Period.”

Locke was an ambassador during the Obama administration and also served as U.S. commerce secretary. He served as governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005.



FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2013, file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke during a business leaders breakfast at The St. Regis Beijing hotel in Beijing. Locke is denouncing President Donald Trump for a new campaign ad that seems to falsely imply Locke was a Chinese official. Trump’s reelection campaign released an ad that accused Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, of being too cozy with China. It featured an image of Biden and Locke on a stage with U.S. and Chinese flags in the background. (AP Photo/Lintao Zhang, Pool)


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[Progressive Jones]

1. And they are aiming those ads at the

trash who will eat it up.

[QED]

2. This is horrible.

My family has known Gary Locke since high school. He is a good man.

[Roy Rolling]

3. They're Idgits

Morons, I tell you. Even when the Trump team is being racist they can’t get it right.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. This is beneath contempt.

Gary Locke is a very good man, was a good governor and it a solid AMERICAN.

This is more filth from that shitheel in the WH.

[Gothmog]

7. I agree

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[SergeStorms]

5. If there's possibly a way....

for Trump and the GOP to scrape the bottom of the barrel just a little lower than they already have, trust them, they'll find that way. There is no bottom to the pit that is Trump's callousness.

[Gothmog]

6. Govenor Gary Locke statement on Trump's campaign ad.

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