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

battleground states.

The coronavirus, this is their new house.

We have a 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, playing the background.

Priority is USA action is responsible for the content of the sad.

Priority is 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 says it sent these letters to stations that aired the ad in Florida, Michigan,

Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

In the letter, the campaign claimed that the ad was deliberately false and misleading,

because it featured clips taken from different contexts, spliced together in a way the campaign

considered deceptive.

Should you fail to immediately cease broadcasting PUSA's ad, the letter reads, Donald J. Trump

for President Inc. will have no choice but to pursue all legal remedies available.

A spokesperson for Priority's USA told us that none of the 72 stations that ran the

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