Elizabeth Warren Anti-Trump Commercial Features Trump Supporter
An Elizabeth Warren/MoveOn.org political ad attacking Donald Trump for not releasing his tax returns features a man who voted for Trump in the Massachusetts primary.
Michael Levin, a writer and owner of a company called BusinessGhost (who coincidentally sought an investment on a previous Shark Tank episode), was shocked when a friend texted him that he, his wife, and daughter showed up briefly in the Elizabeth Warren anti-Trump commercial.
Levin and his family appear at about the 2:34 mark of the four-minute video.
Senator Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, has been vocal in her condemnation of Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
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In an article for Politico, Levin wrote that he found the situation ironic and amusing.
“Of all the footage on the Internet that MoveOn could have used without permission, they picked a Trump supporter and his wife? I can guess why: I’m white and my wife is Chinese, so I suppose we symbolize the progressive ethos of decent taxpayers whose marriage answers the question, ‘why can’t we all just get along?’ Actually, we do get along; we get along with our neighbors, too. And we pay our taxes. But I still voted for Trump.”
“All I ask, Senator Warren and MoveOn, is that the next time you want to appropriate the images of my daughter, my wife and myself, especially considering that I did vote for the very candidate you so gleefully trash in the video, you come and ask me first,” his essay concluded.
Levin, a self-described Republican, went on to assert that he is not particularly enamored with any of the GOP candidates and would even consider voting for Mitt Romney as a third-party candidate in the general election. He even admitted having a high regard for Elizabeth Warren to the point of voting for her if she was a presidential candidate. Levin is firm that he “won’t be rallying behind Hillary Clinton,” however.
Although he disagrees with Trump on a number of issues, “I did think that we need a strong negotiator to work on an international scale. I like the Nixonian unpredictability that Trump brings to the table. Despite the bluster, to me, he seemed the least worst candidate,” Levin noted about his primary ballot choice.
Levin’s daughter who appeared in the video — plus her three siblings — accompanied their dad to watch him vote for Donald Trump, he explained during an appearance on Fox and Friends.
Warren’s people never called him to apologize for misrepresenting his political leanings in the video that has received millions of views so far, he added.
Man featured in Elizabeth Warren's anti-Trump ad voted for Trump: Michael Levin’s photogenic, mixed-race fami… https://t.co/HITSZFufEM
— John Wray (@johnlwray) June 26, 2016
MoveOn evidently repurposed the footage of Levin and his family from an Al Jazeera documentary about the American dream.
“In their urge to get out a video, their first of the 2016 general election, Moveon.org took the video of a multicultural family and used it in their Anti-Trump video,” the Daily Caller detailed.
During the Fox interview, the good-natured Levin seemed to be far less supportive of Warren, however, especially as she apparently positions herself as a possible Hillary Clinton VP pick.
“All I know about Elizabeth Warren is that she’s got a very strong position on the bankruptcy code which I admire, but flipping homes during a recession while calling out Trump for essentially the same thing, claiming to be Native American, to me this is the sort of the level of integrity that qualifies her to be Hillary’s running mate, and that’s what she apparently is auditioning for in this video.”
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Levin also noted that a 10-second Google search of his writings would have revealed that he is not anti-Trump.
As part of the back-and-forth feud between Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump, the New York real estate mogul recently accused the senator of racism during an NBC interview.
“She said she’s five percent Native American. She was unable to prove it. She used the fact that she was Native American to advance her career. Elizabeth Warren is a total fraud. I know it. Other people who work with her know it. Elizabeth Warren is a total fraud. She made up her heritage, which I think is racist. I think she’s a racist, actually, because what she did was very racist.”
Elizabeth Warren gets caught using fake and misleading footage in her anti-Trump ad: https://t.co/z10vU26QjA
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) June 28, 2016
During her campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2012 against then-incumbent Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren insisted that she was 1/32 Cherokee, but no corroboration of the validity of this claim has emerged. There are also allegations that Warren nonetheless used her “minority” status to obtain important law teaching positions at several Ivy League universities under Affirmative Action. Last month, an influential Native-American writer described Elizabeth Warren as a “Pretendian.”
Warren has previously slammed Trump, among other things, as a racist, a bully, and an insecure money grubber.
During a late June appearance The O’Reilly Factor, Trump addressed the controversy that emerged after he referred to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”
“I do regret calling her Pocahontas because I think it’s a tremendous insult to Pocahontas — so to Pocahontas, I would like to apologize to you,” the first-time candidate quipped.
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