The ad from President Trump’s reelection campaign echoes one produced five years ago by the fervently pro-Trump cable network One America News. We see a phone, sitting on a desk at a police precinct. A caller seeking help instead gets a voice mail: the department, defunded, can’t assist the community. Over and over, an emotionless set of options for reporting violent crime is juxtaposed with footage of violence, looting, turmoil.