The Trump campaign will make a seven-figure buy this week for advertisements focusing on Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has been the subject of alleged wrongdoing in dealings with China and Ukraine, Politico reports.
The ad purchase, which will primarily be on YouTube, is part of 96 straight hours of time purchased on the platform to coincide with the nomination of Joe Biden. The video the campaign is running is two minutes long, and it will also run on digital streaming service Hulu. The campaign is also buying ads on the websites of the Washington Post, Fox “News” and the Daily Caller.
While republicans have claimed various conspiracies that Joe Biden manipulated US foreign policy while vice president to enrich his son, who was part of an investment banking firm which had connections in Ukraine and China. Though they started spreading this theory in the summer of 2019, republicans have yet to present any evidence of its legitimacy.
Trump is chasing Biden in the polls and has been for months. He’s attempted to troll Biden with advertisements about Hunter Biden, as well as making an appearance in Scranton, Pennsylvania–Joe Biden’s birthplace–on Thursday.