{"id":390753,"date":"2026-10-23T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-defends-ramaswamy-attack-ad-amid-gop-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:00:19","slug":"trump-defends-ramaswamy-attack-ad-amid-gop-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-defends-ramaswamy-attack-ad-amid-gop-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump defends Ramaswamy attack ad amid GOP backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/ePI9YkVcvOw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Trump defends Ramaswamy attack ad amid GOP backlash\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ePI9YkVcvOw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump defended Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s ad featuring rival Amy Acton\u2019s estranged mother, telling him to keep it up and thank God while stumping in Iowa for Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, who wrote the ad \u201cneeds to come down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the contents of the ad were fair game, despite Democrat Amy Acton maintaining she hasn\u2019t spoken to her mother since 1978. Acton\u2019s mother lost custody of her and her brother when Acton was 12 years old. Her stepfather was indicted by a grand jury on charges of sexually abusing Acton, but her mother stayed with him. The president, in defending the ad, ignored the accusations of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>Stream more on CNN with an All Access subscription: https:\/\/cnn.it\/4AZMu54<\/p>\n<p>#Trump #Ramaswamy #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump defended Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s ad featuring rival Amy Acton\u2019s estranged mother, telling him to keep it up and thank God while stumping in Iowa for Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, who wrote the ad \u201cneeds to come down.\u201d Trump said the contents of the ad were fair game, despite Democrat Amy Acton maintaining she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-390753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump defends Ramaswamy attack ad amid GOP backlash | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Trump defends Ramaswamy attack ad amid GOP backlash for free, here on News ISC. 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