Thread by @bansisharma

This looked extremely suspicious the day it came out. All these weeks later, I cannot believe that Trump's team and DoJ have not been able to get to the bottom of this. I now believe they have looked into it, found nothing wrong, and are exploiting it for commercials like this.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342100887137873922

I find it suspicious that this story, rather than moving from a CCTV video smoking gun to an FBI investigation, has moved into a campaign-like commercial, while Trump is still President and can order FBI to investigate. Where is the Trump tweet asking DoJ/FBI to investigate this?

If this video actually catches people committing a heinous crime against Americans, shouldn't the President be deploying all U.S. investigative agencies to catch the criminals (we know their names, they are on govt payroll) rather than asking voters to call their representative?

What a shameful con job this is to incite people President Trump knows will not question any of his actions because they are so in thrall to him as some kind of a savior (as Obama was to some in his base) that they believe he can do no wrong! This is an insult to his base.

Please note the blurb at the bottom of the commercial:

"Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Approved by Donald J. Trump."

This is what we have. A sitting president cutting campaign commercials using footage of an alleged heinous crime that happened on his watch.

Remember, if this is a crime being committed, it is not a crime against Donald J. Trump. It is a crime against the citizens of the United States, which the President is sworn to protect and defend us against, not use as grist for his own campaign commercials.

And as a crime against all citizens of the United States, it is like a terrorist attack on American soil, and the President of the United States can deploy the entire apparatus of the federal government against it, not use his personal campaign outfit to cut campaign commercials.