{"id":18091,"date":"2023-05-08T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=18091"},"modified":"2023-05-08T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:00:04","slug":"trump-ad-paints-ex-president-as-political-outsider-amid-legal-troubles-embrace-this-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=18091","title":{"rendered":"Trump ad paints ex-president as political outsider amid legal troubles: &#8216;Embrace this label&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A new ad from former President Trump paints the former president as a political outsider against the litany of legal troubles he faces, as well as his impeachments by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who do not have the same courage,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s voiceover says in <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110322289687883020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the video;elm:context_link;itc:0\" class=\"link \">the video<\/a> on clips of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label,&#8221; Trump says in the video, paid for by Make America Great Again, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The video opens with voiceovers of news clips about Trump&#8217;s troubles, from his impeachment in 2020 to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee investigation.  The panel eventually referred the matter to the Justice Department, which is also investigating Trump for possible mishandling of classified documents.  .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember this, nothing worth doing was ever, ever, ever easy,&#8221; Trump says in the video over clips of his younger self and then his descent down the Trump Tower escalator before announcing their 2016 offer.<\/p>\n<p>The former president, who lost re-election in 2020, entered the 2024 race for the White House after last year&#8217;s midterms.  Recent polls have indicated that he is the Republican front-runner, although a number of others are already in the ring and are still rumored to be joining him.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden announced his re-election bid last month, establishing that 2024 could be a rematch of former presidents and former presidents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill.;elm:context_link;itc:0\" class=\"link \">    For the latest news, weather, sports and live video, go to The Hill. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-ad-paints-former-president-201801345.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ad from former President Trump paints the former president as a political outsider against the litany of legal troubles he faces, as well as his impeachments by Congress. &#8220;Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who do not have the same courage,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s voiceover says in the video on clips of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). &#8220;Take the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label,&#8221; Trump says in the video, paid for by Make America Great Again,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18093,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions\/18093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}