Biden ad attacks Trump as ‘convicted criminal’ in $50 million media campaign

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s campaign is stepping up attacks against Donald Trump over the former president’s recent guilty verdict and other legal troubles. On Monday, the company launched a new television ad as part of a massive $50 million paid media campaign that brands Trump a “convicted criminal.”

The 30-second spot, which will air in swing states and on national cable, is the Biden campaign’s first commercial attempting to address Trump’s guilty verdict on 34 counts in the New York hush money trial last month.

“In the courtroom, we see Donald Trump as he is: convicted of 34 crimes, found guilty of sexual assault, and committed financial fraud,” a spokesman says in the ad, which shows clips of Trump in the courtroom. “In the meantime, Joe Biden has been working.”

The ad touts Biden’s efforts to reduce health care costs and “make big corporations pay their fair share.”

“This election is about a convicted criminal who only cares about his own interests and a president who is fighting for your family,” the ad concludes.

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The commercial will be released ten days before the first presidential debate of the 2024 election campaign, which will air on CNN on June 27.

By attacking Trump over his conviction, the Biden team risks exposing itself to further attacks from Republican critics who argue that Trump’s prosecution was politically motivated and focused on the 2024 election.

“Corrupt Joe Biden and the Democrats have used the justice system as a weapon against President Trump, and this new ad proves once again that the sham trial was always intended to interfere with the election, but Americans see through it,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

“The contrast between the strength and success of President Trump and the weakness, mistakes and dishonesty of the fraudulent Joe Biden will be evident on the debate stage next week,” she said.

The ad shows that the Biden campaign wants to remind Americans of Trump’s guilty verdict, even after Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was found guilty last week on three counts of gun misconduct.

“Trump goes into the first debate as a convicted felon who continues to prove that he will do anything and harm anyone if it means more power and vengeance for Donald Trump,” Michael Tyler, communications director for the Biden campaign, said in a statement.

Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was convicted last month of falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11.

In January, a Manhattan jury ordered Trump to pay advice columnist E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual assault.

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