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Here's Donald Trump's Anti-Wind Farm Ad That Was Just Banned In The UK For Being Misleading

Apr 24, 2013, 19:09 IST

The British Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad created by Donald Trump's Scottish golf course criticizing wind farms.

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Trump built a high-end links in Balmedie, Scotland, and fears that the arrival of wind turbines nearby will spoil the view.

So he took out this ad, which uses a photo of California, not Scotland, and suggests that Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond sympathizes with the Libyan terrorists who brought down a Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988:

The ASA ruled that the Lockerbie reference was OK but the claim that tourism would suffer was unsubstantiated, and the ad must never run again.

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(The ASA "bans" a lot of ads in the UK, often for frivolous reasons.)

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