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President Trump on Friday continued taking flak from the leftist media over Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad on Democrat Amy Acton, and he doubled down in support of the ad.
The controversy surrounds a recent Ramaswamy ad, where Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, calls Acton a “liar” nd a sick person who “needs help.” She contends that Acton’s lies about Ramaswamy are disqualifying. But the media, Democrats, and some Republicans want to portray it as an attack on Acton’s claims of sexual abuse as a child.
Acton’s mother previously accused her of exaggerating or inventing stories about her childhood back in 2020.
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As Trump argues, the left-wing media would never criticize such an ad from a Democratic candidate if used against a Republican.
Reporters tried to argue that because Acton’s stepfather was accused and charged, he must be guilty. However, the man was never prosecuted and pleaded not guilty to the charge. He reportedly fled and evaded prosecution until his death at age 69 in 2004. Still, with no record of a conviction or solid story on the alleged abuse, it’s impossible to know what actually happened.
Trump was first asked on Friday, “Her stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, did you change your mind about that?”
“No, it’s a mother speaking badly against Amy Acton, and to me, it’s very easy. But they haven’t talked,” Trump said.
When tag-teamed by CBS’s Weijia Jang and CNN’s Alayna Treen on the abuse allegations, Trump told them, “If it were my mother speaking badly about me. You’d be making it as the number one story on the news.”
“But her mother stood by her after her husband had raped or had sexually assaulted her,” CNN’s Alayna Treen chimed in. Trump fired back, “You don’t know that. You don’t know anything.”
“Her mother stood by, didn’t stand by; her mother went on television and said that the daughter who’s running for governor of Ohio is a liar and a bad person, and that’s all I know. Nobody knows, nobody knows anything,” he added.
“Can I be honest? You shouldn’t even — the press is embarrassing themselves. You’re trying to take a horrible situation for a Democrat and make it look better. The mother said really bad things about a person that wants to be the Democrat governor of Ohio. The mother said terrible things. Anybody seeing that would say, “No way, I’m voting for her.” There’s nothing to it. It’s very simple. The press is trying so hard to nullify it.”
“You know, they called me up about it. I said, ‘Wait a minute. The mother said these things.’ The mother looks like she’s totally lucid. She looks very smart, actually, and she felt she had an obligation to Ohio voters to tell them that her daughter is a liar!” he added.
Asked about Iowa Republican Senate Nominee Ashley Hinson’s condemnation of the ad, as he was on Thursday, Trump maintained, “Well, they can, but they don’t know the facts.”
“A mother is saying, ‘Don’t put my daughter there because she’s a terrible person and she’s a liar.’ Why shouldn’t somebody use that? Let me ask you. If my mother said—” he continued before the reporter cut him off. “Wait, wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Who are you with?” he said, and she said NBC.
“One of the worst networks you have,” he said as the reporter complained that “there are very serious sexual abuse allegations.” Trump said, “Quiet!” and she responded, “They make no difference to you.”
Trump then went off, saying, “Isn’t she a fresh person? You’re a horrible little reporter, aren’t you?”
“If my mother said bad things about me, you think the Democrats would put it up? I think so. But my mother thought I was wonderful! Thank you, Mom. My mother would never; even if she thought that, she would never say it. This is a person, a mother, a smart woman,” he said.
“If I had that ad, I should be so lucky to have an ad like that; why wouldn’t you listen to a mother that says that? Why? Why would you, Miss NBC? Why wouldn’t you listen?”
As the reporter tried to interrupt again, Trump continued, “Quiet. I don’t know anything about a stepfather…I know that recently a mother got on television and said that her daughter should not be governor of Ohio, and she said I love my daughter, but my daughter lies all the time and lied about her opponent, and I can’t watch it. And the mother got up. This has nothing to do with the stepfather or anything else. This has to do with the fact that a woman got out, the mother of a person running for governor of one of the greatest states, where I set records and said that she’s a liar. Her daughter’s a liar.”
“That’s what she said: Her daughter should not be the governor of Ohio. To me, that’s something that’s very much fair game,” Trump added.
This comes after Trump answered almost the exact same smear questions on Thursday and gave the same defense.
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