In the past 24 hours Facebook censored the Mourning in America ad that The Lincoln Project put out a couple of days ago, which ad caused Trump to do midnight rage tweeting against the leadership of The Lincoln Project. Below is the censored Facebook post. Following the below censored post is the fact checking link, and following that is an email The Lincoln Project sent out.
Donald Trump’s failed presidency has left the nation weaker, sicker, and teetering on the verge of a new Great Depression.
There’s mourning in America.
If you click on the "See Why" button in the middle of the above image, you will receive a pop up which has a link to https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/07/lincoln-project/mourning-america-ad-critical-trump-misleads-bailou/?fbclid=IwAR3Ri5bz-tE9wqGrYPgYwgWy3pyEuW1r6ZX5vabGRKOqpUA3BphuBED6tj0.
Lincoln Project’s “Mourning in America” ad critical of Trump misleads on bailouts
A group called the Lincoln Project, headlined by several high-profile Republicans and former Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, recently released an ad that turned a famous re-election ad for President Ronald Reagan on its head.
The Reagan ad, "Morning in America," is one of the most celebrated campaign ads in history. Using optimistic imagery and themes to argue that the country was on the right track after the crises of the 1970s, the ad set the tone for Reagan’s landslide reelection victory.
By contrast, the Lincoln Project’s ad, retitled "Mourning in America," is replete with depressing footage of masked Americans and economic devastation. And it directly blames Trump for acting ineffectively on the health and economic fronts.
At one point, the ad asserts, "Trump bailed out Wall Street, but not Main Street."
Trump tweeted his displeasure with the ad, ironically producing a banner fundraising day for the Lincoln Project.
But is the ad’s claim about bailouts accurate?
While there have been high-profile examples of larger corporations being awarded loans from a primarily small-business lending program (and sometimes giving them back), this line in the ad is inaccurate.
Marc Goldwein, the senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, has been tracking the federal response to the coronavirus-driven economic downturn. He said the dichotomy in the ad is wrong.
The coronavirus relief legislation passed so far, Goldwein said, "generally bails out everyone."
Role of the CARES Act
We should start by noting that Trump wouldn’t be solely at fault for any design flaws in the primary law for coronavirus relief, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act.
The $2.2 trillion act, which Trump signed into law on March 27, 2020, included stimulus payments to most Americans, enhanced unemployment aid, loans for small businesses, and other relief measures. However, before it got to Trump’s desk, the bill had the support of both parties. It passed the Senate unanimously, and it passed the House overwhelmingly.
The primary way the bill helps small companies is through the Paycheck Protection Program.
Under that program, small businesses can take out federally backed loans through banks or credit unions to tide them through the coronavirus pandemic. The government will forgive the loans if the company keeps all of their employees on the payroll for eight weeks, and as long as the money is used for payroll, rent, mortgage interest, or utilities.
The Paycheck Protection Program attracted negative media attention when some larger employers, such as Shake Shack, secured small business loans. Criticism grew as the program ran out of money allocated under the CARES Act. Congress later provided funds for additional loans.
The Shake Shack loan appears to have been legal, since the program allowed loans for businesses in the food services sector that have more than one physical location and employ less than 500 people per location. Still, the negative attention led some of these businesses, including Shake Shack, to voluntarily give back their loans.
What does the data show?
The Small Business Administration, which is overseeing the program, has produced some broad breakdowns of how the first $342 billion in loan money was spent.
For assessing the ad’s claim, the most problematic cut of the SBA data concerns the size of the loans made so far.
The breakdown shows that slightly more than 74% of the individual loans granted were for $150,000 or less, totaling $58 billion. Because most companies apply for the maximum amount allowable, and because the loans are capped at 10 weeks of payroll costs, a loan of this size is consistent with a company that has roughly seven to 10 workers, Goldwein said. (Because the individual loan amounts in this category were small, the sum of all these loans was equal to only 17% of the total money spent.)
From: Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project
To: Robert Shattuck
Sent: Thu, May 7, 2020 8:26 pm
Subject: URGENT: We've been Zucked
Robert, we've been Zucked: Facebook is now censoring the ad that made Trump lose his mind.
You're not going to believe this — not much shocks me these days, but even I had to see it with my own eyes.
After our latest ad, "Mourning In America," made President Orangeface short-circuit and throw a rage-tweeting tantrum at 1am, his campaign spin machine went into "damage control" mode calling us "losers" and calling the claims in the ad "false."
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Of course, we expected that. Because we know they're scared.
But now, less than 24 hours later — as if on cue — Facebook has slapped a "false" warning label on our video, telling its users to beware:
Robert, it's no secret that Facebook has stood by and done little to nothing as lie after lie — from the Liar-In-Chief himself — runs wild on their platform.
(Oh, and let's also not forget the conspiracy theories, foreign disinformation campaigns and negligence that got Mark Zuckerberg questioned by the United States Congress.)
But, this? This is an entirely different and dangerous kind of collusion.
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And what is Facebook's excuse for playing favorites with its recently-transferred former employees in the Trump campaign?
They say a "fact-checker" labeled our claim that "Donald Trump helped bailout Wall Street, not Main Street" was untrue.
....Really?
🚨 Millions of Americans are still waiting for their checks.
(USA Today, May 7)
🚨 Thousands of business owners can't get the loans they need to stay open.
(NBC News, April 27)
🚨 Multiple research reports show that only: "half of Americans say they got a stimulus payment, and only half of those say it was enough."
(Business Insider, April 29)
🚨 But Wall Street banks, hedge funds, huge corporations, and Trump's friends and donors, have cut the line and gotten millions they shouldn't have.
(Business Insider, May 1; The Washington Post, April 24)
Does that sound like "bailing out Main Street" to you, Robert?
Is that "Partly False?" Of course not.
We told the truth about Donald Trump...
He lost his damn mind over it on Twitter...
Attacked us in front of Air Force One...
Then sent his spin machine to discredit us...
And now his allies at Facebook are doing his damage control by censoring the truth he doesn't like.
So, on behalf of my compatriots at The Lincoln Project, let me be crystal clear:
We will never back down from this fight.
We will hammer him with the truth and the facts.
Donald Trump's failed Presidency has left the nation weaker, sicker, and teetering on the verge of a new Great Depression.
We're taking this fight directly to Trump and the people—and social media giants—that prop him up.
If you're with us, please pitch in what you can, right now.
This is what we train for.
Rick
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