Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it
US attorney apologized to court, said government has stopped running Trump ads.
A US government-backed Trump advertisement persisted on television screens the following day following a court injunction that deemed the ad likely in breach of a law prohibiting government-funded propaganda. The most prominent commercial featured Trump denouncing his alleged adversaries and vowing to liberate America from them.
The campaign also featured a commercial extolling Trump's presidential achievements, another that portrayed the US as the most exceptional nation in human history, and ads concerning the Iran war and the capture of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro. US District Judge Jennifer Rochon issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) halting the ads on Sunday, October 11, which became effective at 6:45 pm that evening.
The order mandated that the government retract the ads, including those scheduled for October 11, 2026.
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