Trump ad touting 'great American comeback' features foreign stock footage [View all]

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Source: ABC News

A new ad released by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that looked to capitalize on the August jobs report to portray the country as being in the middle of a "great American comeback" features foreign stock footage.

The ad, which paints an incomplete picture of the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, does so in part by featuring stock footage from countries outside the United States, including a warehouse in Ukraine and publicly available footage of two models -- one from Italy and another from Ukraine – but which appear in the ad to represent images from the U.S.

At around the 15-second mark, the ad targets former Vice President Joe Biden by claiming he would "kill countless American businesses, jobs and our economic future" and flashes a clip showing what is meant to represent a U.S. warehouse with the lights being dramatically turned off.

But the footage is readily available stock images of a Ukrainian wallpaper warehouse from a video production company named PromZone Media Group, the company confirmed to ABC News.



Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-ad-touting-great-american-comeback-features-foreign/story?id=72902748&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed

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The article also discloses that models in the ad are Ukrainian.

Also, he tries to make the August jobs report sound like phenomenally great news, but fails to mention that millions of Americans are still out of work. In February, the unemployment rate was 3.5% and is now 8.4%, although it has fallen slightly from the peak.