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DeSantis super PAC ‘gun-grabber’ ad calls Trump a ‘COWARD,’ claims he ‘abandoned’ NRA members

April 16, 2023 | | Print Article

This week a grassroots super PAC dedicated to drafting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis into the 2024 presidential race dropped an attack ad — its first one ever — accusing former President Donald Trump of being a “gun-grabber.”

The ad by the Never Back Down super PAC was published Thursday, a day before Trump spoke at the National Rifle Association’s Leadership Forum in Indianapolis.

Watch the ad below:

“Trump promised NRA members he’d have their back. But when Second Amendment rights came under attack, Trump abandoned us and stood with liberal Democrats,” the ad begins with the narrator saying.

The ad then shows clip after clip after clip of Trump agreeing with and expressing support for Democrats’ gun-control schemes such as “red flag” laws and bump stock bans.

“Half of you are so afraid of the NRA. We have to fight them every once in a while, that’s OK,” Trump says at one point in the ad.

“Some of you people are petrified of the NRA. You can’t be petrified. They have great power over you people. They have less power over me. I don’t need it. What do I need?” he says at another point in the ad.

Eventually, the ad accuses Trump of cutting and running “like a coward” and concludes by saying “Trump the gun grabber doesn’t deserve a second chance.”

The ad has prompted massive backlash from the former president’s supporters.

Look:

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One clever critic pushed back on the ad by noting that the NRA probably wouldn’t have invited him to speak at their annual conference this year if he’d truly been so bad on guns.

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“The problem with this ad, is that the @NRA themselves were cheering & applauding Trump today. They wouldn’t have even invited him if the way this ad painted him was true,” the critic wrote.

Speaking of the NRA’s annual conference, Never Back Down members were reportedly there as well.

They “handed out flyers at the convention with the same messaging, calling Trump a ‘gun grabber’ who sides with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and other anti-gun rights Democrats,” according to Mediaite.

As for the former president and his speech, he sounded nothing like the Trump seen in the Never Back Down PAC’s ad.

“I was proud to be the most pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment president you’ve ever had in the White House. I think that’s been acknowledged, and with your support, in 2024, I will be your loyal friend and fearless champion once again as the 47th president of the United States,” he said at one point, as reported by the Washington Examiner.

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Also speaking at the event, DeSantis incidentally shared a similar pro-gun message.

“As governor, I’ve resisted calls to take up gun control even when such a stand is superficially unpopular because I understand that it is precisely at those moments when a right is unpopular that it needs true champions,” he reportedly said.

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