A new attack ad from the Karl Rove-founded super PAC, American Crossroads, is taking aim at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her family foundation’s acceptance of donations from foreign governments. And it’s using the words of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to do it.
The ad, entitled “Rigged,” features text from recent Wall Street Journal reporting on The Clinton Foundation’s receipt of contributions from foreign governments. (Most recently, the foundation stated it would rethink whether to accept those type of donations.)
Images of Clinton with foreign leaders from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar appear on screen, while audio plays of Warren commenting on how “powerful interests have tried to capture Washington and rig the system in their favor.”
“The power of well-funded special interests tilts our democracy away from the people and toward the powerful,” Warren said in the ad.
The use of Warren in the ad is no coincidence. Some Republicans are hoping that both Warren and Clinton will run for president in 2016, resulting in a bloody 2016 Democratic primary. However, Warren has said repeatedly she’s not going to run.
While the ad is solely running online, the super PAC is planning to take an aggressive but surgical approach to attacking Clinton.
“We plan to be very active in helping the party find the best ways to approach a Hillary Clinton candidacy,” American Crossroads Communications Director Paul Lindsey told TPM. “Her use of the Clinton Foundation to fund her pseudo-campaign, and her foreign donations to it, have rightfully angered members of both parties.”
Watch the ad below:
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Who are the donors of Rove’s super PAC. We don’t know because there is no transparency. The Clinton foundation has transparency and it is a non profit organization that gives out billions of dollars to third world countries. What does Rove’s super PAC do?
From their history waste alot of money on loosers
Yawn. We’ll be seeing a lot of this. The GOP/Teatrolls know their only hope is trying to convince liberals not to vote…or at least not to vote for the most likely to win nominee.
More “divide and conquer” from the Grand Old Plutocrats (GOP) party.
Question: were these comments from Warren made specifically on the donations to the Clinton foundation, or were they made addressing donations to campaign organizations?
Hmmm . . . campaign donations. Yep, that’s a conversation we’d like to have.