Donald Trump claims ad misquotes him, but he's not exactly right
Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that he was misquoted in a new ad released by pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA.
The 30-second ad titled "Speak" features women lip-syncing demeaning statements Trump has made about women. The last part of the clip features a woman lip-syncing to Trump saying, "You can tell them to go f*** themselves."
The ad makes it sound like Trump directed that statement toward women, but he said on Twitter Tuesday that he was referring to China.
The quote, however, appears to be taken from a rally Trump held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in early February. Earlier in the speech, he was talking about China and the South China Sea, but then he moved on several minutes later to Mexico, accusing the country of stealing American jobs.
"We're going to bring businesses back. We're going to have businesses, we're going to have businesses that used to be in New Hampshire, that are now in Mexico, come back to New Hampshire, and you can tell them to go f*** themselves," he said.