Video taking off 47x its usual first day

Trump calls Ohio ad featuring Acton's mother "fair game"

LOCAL 12's clip shows the president defending Ramaswamy's ad while an NBC reporter presses him about sexual abuse allegations.

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LOCAL 12 Story of October 25, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 50,211 views a day, 47 times a normal first day on this channel (1,075).

Trump weighs in on controversial Ohio campaign ad

An Ohio campaign ad brought questions about a family dispute to the White House lawn. Asked about criticism of Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother, President Donald Trump defended using her remarks against her daughter.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate's ad features the mother attacking the Democratic candidate's credibility. In LOCAL 12's clip, an NBC reporter presses Trump about sexual abuse allegations connected to the controversy. He asks which network she represents, criticizes NBC and later says he knows nothing about that aspect of the dispute.

Rather than address those allegations, Trump repeatedly returns to the mother's televised criticism. He also considers whether Democrats would use such comments if his own mother had spoken against him. His conclusion: "To me, that's something that's very much fair game."

The Cincinnati station's Short drew about 42,000 views in its first 16 hours, far beyond its usual first-day audience for that format. It is a press exchange rather than a replay of the campaign ad: viewers hear Trump's defense and the reporter's attempts to question the context behind it.

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