Donald Trump’s first batch of radio ads demonstrate what a horrible commander in chief he would be, according to the Democratic National Committee.
“The release of Donald Trump’s radio ads today make it clear a Trump presidency would be a bad investment for America and the middle class,” DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Thursday in a statement released hours after the Republican presidential hopeful debuted his new ads on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“It’s not just his offensive rhetoric, it’s his harmful policies, which are emblematic of the entire Republican field’s obsession with moving America backward to policies that failed under past Republican administrations,” she added.
According to the Florida congresswoman, Trump’s tax plan and the economic policies he espouses on the campaign trail would “reverse the progress” she claims has been made under the Obama administration and interrupt “months of private-sector job growth.”
Wasserman Schultz continued, “The ads also don’t answer serious questions about the myth that Donald Trump is a successful businessman who would be able to run the country’s economy.”
“Donald Trump openly brags about taking advantage of bankruptcy laws in order to amass his fortune, and he borrowed millions from his family members to build his empire,” she said, pointing to Trump’s recent claim that he built his empire using $1 million loaned to him by his father.
In his new book Crippled America, the real estate mogul writes, “the money I’ve created was the result of my own work – projects I’ve created, deals I made, companies I bought and turned around.”
Still, Wasserman Schultz claims Trump “just doesn’t understand these avenues aren’t available to countless Americans who are working day in and day out to afford a mortgage payment, or the cost of college for their families.”
“He hasn’t got a clue when it comes to the struggles everyday Americans face, and he’s the last person equipped to help them,” she said Thursday.
Trump’s latest ads will air over the course of the next two weeks and are costing the self-funded candidate $300,000. His campaign confirmed Wednesday that Trump will limit his ads to radio only for the foreseeable future.
