Hi, this is Bob Garfield. On last week's Pod Extra, we took a close look at the Lincoln Project,

the Political Action Committee, known for funding excoriating anti-Trump advertisements.

Check out that episode, if you haven't already. With fewer than 100 days before the election,

our social media feeds and TV airwaves are already chock full of

political ads from Republicans and Democrats for and against candidates all the way up and down

the ballot, which is why we are running this episode from the podcast, Trump, Inc. They make the show

right down in the hall from us at WNYC.

Or anyway, they did.

Now, like OTM, they're producing their show out of bedrooms all across the tri-state area.

Anyway, this is the story of one TV ad that really got under the president's skin.

Here's Trump, Inc. co-host, Andrea Bernstein.

In March, a Super PAC placed an anti-Trump advertisement on local television stations in

battleground states.

The coronavirus.

This is their new hoax.

We have it totally under control.

There's a visual on the screen, a line counting COVID-19 infections, ticks up and up. We've done a great job in keeping it

down to a minimum. Clips of the president dismissing the virus play in the background. Priorities USA

action is responsible for the content of the sad. Priorities USA is a type of super PAC. It supports Joe Biden. It can collect unlimited contributions from

almost any source for expenditures independent of the Biden campaign. The day after the advertisement

first aired, the Trump campaign sent cease and desist letters to TV stations.

The campaign said it sent these letters to stations that aired the ad in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

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