(CNN) President Donald Trump addressed an incendiary campaign video for the first time Friday, defending his move to tweet the ad as "just telling the truth." "They gave me a hard time because I put it up on Twitter and they gave a hard time," Trump told a crowd in Huntington, West Virginia. "And I say, all I'm doing is just telling the truth, what can I say," he added. Commentators have called the ad racist and likened it to the Willie Horton ad in the 1988 campaign. The ad was seen as playing into white fear and racist stereotypes of African-Americans.

Source: CNN November 02, 2018 21:11 UTC