President Donald Trump on Friday continued to defend a highly contentious advertisement from Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy . The ad featured the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent Amy Acton—a woman whom Acton alleges remained supportive of the man criminally charged with sexually abusing her during childhood.
Trump defends controversial Ramaswamy ad targeting Amy Acton
When confronted regarding Acton’s prolonged estrangement from her mother spanning multiple decades, Trump dismissed the concern and maintained that the advertisement was a fair game. “If it were my mother speaking badly about me, you’d be making it the number one story on the news. “This has nothing to do with a stepfather or anything else. “I got a call from Vivek. Why? They did an ad of the mother saying the daughter is incompetent, a liar, a disgusting, unreliable person. Why can’t I have that happen to me? “They wanted to take down an ad. I only wish I could have had an ad like that against somebody. But as it turned out, we didn’t need it.”
Her stepfather—who passed away in 2004—departed the state alongside her mother before trial and failed to make any court appearance before a judge, according to court records and statements provided by Acton’s mother during an interview. Because I’m getting killed in the press. He said, ‘Because they think I should immediately take the ad off.
“I don’t care,” he said. Trump went on to call Acton’s mother a “smart woman”, stressing that the advertisement constituted permissible content. This has to do with the fact that a woman got out, the mother of a person running for governor of one of the greatest states, where I set records and said that she’s a liar. He said, ‘What would you recommend? My mom would not say that about me, even if she believed it,” the POTUS said. “The mother said horrible things about your opponent. That’s a good thing, but I said, ‘You got to ride with it,’” Trump said. “So I told him, leave it up, and look upstairs and say thank you God, very much. I appreciate it,” Trump said moments later.
