For trump,
impeachment means civil war
By Renée Graham,Updated October 2, 2019, 5:00 a.m.
Mike Pence's
Facebook page has also been enlisted in the effort spending more than $700,000
on Facebook ads between September 22 and 28. The amount is the biggest ad spend
through Pence's Facebook page since the social media network began releasing ad
spend data in May 2018. The Pence ads are primarily about upcoming trump
rallies and impeachment.
"There are now
over 150 House Democrats who back Impeachment," one ad on Pence page
reads, "These Impeachment claims have nothing to do with me, the Democrats
thrive on silencing and intimidating my supporters, like YOU. They want to take
YOUR VOTE away."
Illustration by
Lesley Becker/Globe Staff | Adobe | Globe file photo
If the Civil War had
truly ended more than 150 years ago, there would be no trump.
The same seething
white resentment that doomed the post-war Reconstruction era ushered trump into
the White House. Now he’s promoting
a hate pastor’s rubbish that America will face a “Civil War like fracture
in the Nation from which our Country will never heal,” if he is removed from
office.
Keep this in mind as
this increasingly unhinged and desperate president faces a deepening
impeachment inquiry. We already know — from Charlottesville to Pittsburgh, from
Christchurch to El Paso — trump’s incendiary rhetoric has garnered a body
count.
trump Campaign
Spends Big on Facebook Ads After Impeachment Inquiry, Then Rakes in Big Cash
Besides tweets
blasting the impeachment inquiry launched against him, trump and his
campaign have also rolled out thousands of Facebook ads and have brought in
millions of dollars. Veuer’s Justin Kircher has the story.
trump is using his
powerful social media presence to push back against
the impeachment inquiry, tweeting
and retweeting more than 100 times over the weekend and his reelection
campaign has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Facebook ads on the
topic over the past week.
More than 1,800 ads
on trump's Facebook page mentioning "impeachment" have run in the
past seven days. The ads have been viewed between 16 and 18 million times on
Facebook and the campaign has spent between $600,000 and $2,000,000 on the
effort, according to data
analyzed by Laura Edelson, a researcher at New York University's Tandon
School of Engineering.
trump is using ads
to enlist people in what his campaign is calling the "Official Impeachment
Defense Task Force."
"I want to know
who stood with me when it mattered most, which is why my team is making me a
list of EVERY AMERICAN PATRIOT who adds their name and joins the Official
Impeachment Defense Taskforce," one trump ad reads.