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The Lincoln Project has launched a scathing new attack ad against Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his handling of the coronavirus, making the former adviser ‘evil’.
The Republican Commission on Anti-Trump Political Actions (POC) released the ad Monday, opening with the statement that “evil is real” before launching into a video compilation of Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner.
‘We ignore it when it seems educated, polite, superficially charming, even refined. We trivialize it, ignore it, and when we do, it grows, ”the ad continues.
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The ad then addresses the role of the senior adviser in dealing with the novel coronavirus at the beginning of the pandemic, claiming that he contributed to the development of policies that led to the deaths of Americans.
“On March 31 in the Trump White House, Mr. Trump’s Covid team led by Mr. Kushner decided to ignore tests in states with democratic governors. Evil was sitting in that room, “read the narrator.
“It was that meeting that led to policies that led to more murders than Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, 9/11, more Americans than World War I.”
In March, Mr Kushner was appointed to the coronavirus task force, separate from the White House official group led by Mike Pence, to develop a nationwide testing and delivery plan.
The ad refers to a report from Vanity Fair which claimed that a national coronavirus strategy developed by the Second Task Force was abolished to score political points against Democratic rulers.
The national plan to accelerate testing and supply, which Vanity Fair reported that it had received a copy of, was never used.
“It was deliberate, cold, political, biased,” the ad concludes, referring to the reported abandonment of the national plan.
“Some people say Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner were incompetent in the case of Covid, but let’s call it: evil,” the ad concludes.
If contacted by The independent Erin Perrine, spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, said: “this is the swamp – once again – trying to take down the duly elected president of the United States.”
“President Trump is the leader of a united Republican Party, where he won 94% of the Republican vote during the primaries – something any former president of any party could only dream of.”
The Lincoln project has previously attacked Mr Kushner in other advertisements in the run-up to the November elections, and published a video earlier this month entitled: ‘Secretary of failed’.
Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, previously called Mr Kushner “beyond evil”.
“Mr. Kushner does not care about your life or mine,” Mr Galen said in a statement The Hill. “He thought the pandemic was just another political prop – and now we all suffer.”
More than 5.71 million Americans have been infected with the novel coronavirus since the pandemic began in March and more than 177,000 people have died from the disease in the US.
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