President Joe Biden holds up a Laken Riley button as he delivers the State of the Union address. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik.
CNN declined to air an ad during the State of The Union address that blamed President Joe Biden for Laken Riley’s death.
Riley was the 22-year-old nursing student who was allegedly killed by an undocumented migrant from Venezuela while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus.
Building America’s Future, the group that produced the ad, slammed the network’s decision in a statement to Breitbart — which first reported the news.
“It is shameful that CNN is censoring the truth and trying to protect President Biden by refusing to air this ad,” the group said.
A spokesperson for CNN told Mediaite that the advertisement did not meet the network’s “commercial clearance guidelines and policies.”
The ad opens with a woman jogging, while a narrator speaks, and is interspersed with clips of Biden at the 2019 Democratic debates. The narrator says:
Laken Riley should have been able to go on a run in broad daylight without being murdered by an illegal immigrant. But Joe Biden promised not to deport illegal immigrants. Biden vowed not to detain illegal immigrants that crossed the border. So, when Jose Ibarra crossed into America illegally, he was not deported. He was not put in jail. Biden also supported sanctuary cities. So, when Jose Ibarra was arrested in New York City for endangering a child, he was freed a second time. Ibarra went to Georgia where he beat Laken Riley to death. How many more killers has Biden set free? Building America’s Future is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was arrested and charged with Riley’s murder. He has not pleaded guilty nor been convicted of the crime.
The ad ran nationwide, specifically in swing states, during Thursday night’s State of the Union address. Fox News, MSNBC, and Newsmax all aired the 60-second spot, according to Breitbart.
