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Trump campaign uses Facebook ads to amplify his ‘invasion’ claim

El Paso emergency personnel arrive at the scene of the Walmart shooting.

He’s now denying any of it on Twitter employing his two word slogan Fake News (ODT)

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has harnessed Facebook advertising to push the idea of an “invasion” at the southern border, amplifying the fear-inducing language about immigrants that he has also voiced at campaign rallies and on Twitter.

“We don’t have a country right now,” he said in footage shown in one ad. “We have people pouring in, they’re pouring in, and they’re doing tremendous damage.”

He seized on the “invasion” imagery again in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, when he claimed without evidence that a caravan of migrants making its way north toward the border had been infiltrated by “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.”

via Trump campaign uses Facebook ads to amplify his ‘invasion’ claim