Pro-Trump Super PAC Edits Biden’s Past Comment About Deportations

While talking about illegal immigration at a town hall in 2020, Joe Biden, then a Democratic presidential candidate, said that if he were elected, “nobody is going to be deported in my first 100 days.” But a TV ad from a super PAC supporting former President Donald Trump features a clip of Biden only saying “nobody is going to be deported,” falsely suggesting that Biden promised his administration would never deport anyone who was in the U.S. illegally. The 30-second ad from MAGA Inc. began airing in Pennsylvania on May 1, according to AdImpact, a political ad tracking service. The super PAC’s ad starts with Tony Dokoupil, a host of “CBS Mornings,” saying that Biden encouraged asylum seekers to come to the U.S. — which Biden did, as a candidate. But the ad ends with Biden saying there would be no deportations if he were president – which he did not say. The super PAC has produced at least one other ad — which ran on digital platforms in late March — featuring the same deceptively truncated Biden quote about deportations. Here’s a fuller transcript of Biden’s remarks during that February 2020 CNN town hall while answering an audience member’s...