Trump Campaign Sues TV Station Over ‘Manipulated Audio’ Ad on COVID-19

President Donald Trump at the daily briefing on the CCP virus in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 6, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed a defamation lawsuit on April 13 against an NBC-affiliated television station for airing an ad falsely claiming the president called the COVID-19 outbreak a “hoax.”

The ad was cut by super PAC Priorities USA, which the complaint (pdf) filed by the Trump campaign identified as “far-left.”