A new Trump campaign ad depicting a police officer being attacked by protesters is actually a 2014 photo of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine

• President Trump's reelection campaign released a new Facebook advert showing an image of a group of protesters attacking a police officer, alongside the words: "Public safety vs chaos & violence."
• But that photo is actually from a pro-democracy protest in Kyiv, Ukraine, and was taken in 2014.
• The photographer who took the picture, Mstyslav Chernov, confirmed to Business Insider this is an old photo, and suggested that the Trump campaign was trying to "manipulate public opinion."
• The ad came as Trump sent federal officers to quell protests in Portland, Oregon, and has threatened to send more to other Democrat-led cities.
• The Trump campaign has seized on the ongoing protests in the US as a key campaign issue, with Acting Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf describing Portland protesters as "violent anarchists."
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A new advert for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign has used an image of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine from 2014 to show what it called "chaos & violence" in the US.

The ad, published Tuesday, shows a picture of a group of protesters appearing to attack a police officer, who is on the ground, next to a photo of the president listening to assembled police leaders.

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