Priorities USA (the Joe Biden Super PAC) is not the only organization that’s been the target of an attempt at Prior Restraint.
American Bridge has an Ad up in Michigan that Republicans are attempting to quash with a cease and desist order delivered to WOOD, an NBC affiliate in Grand Rapids Michigan (actually pretty reliable Republican territory, rich, racist, and devoted to the Dutch Reformed branch of Calvinism which is a tad more radical and militant than Wahabi Islam).
My link is from Susie Madrak @ Crooks & Liars and it’s to a live blog so it might change position and you’ll have to hunt for it.
Trump campaign hits local TV station with cease-and-desist over coronavirus ad
Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News
4/23/20
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a TV station in Michigan over a Democratic super PAC ad that they say misleadingly accuses Trump of being soft on China at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump’s campaign earlier this month sued a Wisconsin TV station and sent cease-and-desist letters to other swing-state TV stations over an ad from a different Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA. The latest cease-and-desist letter, obtained by NBC News, targets WOOD, an NBC affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and demands the station stop running “a false, misleading, and deceptive advertisement” produced by an offshoot of the Democratic group American Bridge.
The ad, which Trump also attacked in a tweet, accuses Trump of trusting China even though, the narrator says, “everyone knew they lied about the virus.” And it suggests the Trump administration shipped 17 tons of medical supplies the U.S. now needs to China in the early days of the outbreak, before it was widespread in the United States.
The Trump campaign said the State Department merely helped manage logistics for the shipment of medical supplies by using chartered planes that were bound for China to repatriate Americans and would have flown empty otherwise. Instead, the planes carried goods donated by a group of charities and businesses.
American Bridge, however, noted how the Trump administration publicly touted the shipment and pointed to Trump’s repeated praise for China’s response to the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic. In response to Trump’s criticism, the group said it would put an additional “six figures” behind the ad to run it on digital platforms.
“We will not be intimidated by his gang of lawyers, and we will not relent in our mission to make sure voters have the facts straight on Donald Trump,” American Bridge President Bradley Beychok said.
This one, pointed out by Aliza Worthington, also @ Crooks & Liars, is by the Democratic Coalition.