WATCH: Trump Campaign Releases POWERFUL New Ad Slamming Kamala Harris For Suggesting Terrorists, Sex Offenders Should Vote

On Thursday, the Trump campaign released a powerful new ad focused on comments Vice President Kamala Harris made at a CNN town hall in 2019. Harris said that lawmakers should "have that conversation" about whether terrorists and sexual abusers should get the right to vote. The ad comes just a day after the Biden-Harris administration reached a plea deal with the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The ad opens with an image of a recent Harris for President ad that emphasized freedom from gun violence, LGBTQIA+ issues, and access to abortion. The Trump campaign ad asked viewers to consider "Freedom for who?" 

Following that question, the ad showed a clip of former CNN host Don Lemon asking Harris whether terrorists or sex offenders should get the right to vote from prison. "People who are convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should get the right to vote?" Lemon asked.

"I think we should have that conversation," Harris, the former San Fransisco district attorney and former attorney general of California, said. The ad then stated, while showing images of the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three, injured hundreds, and resulted in 17 people losing limbs, that Harris supports "Freedom for terrorists." 

The attack ad also stated that Harris supports "Freedom for sexual abuser" while showing images of Larry Nassar, the USA Gymnastics doctor who abused over 250 women before being brought to justice.

The campaign ad comes just a day after the Biden-Harris administration negotiated a plea deal with 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other co-conspirators, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, who pleaded guilty in exchange for the death penalty to be removed from the possible punishments.

The men, who have been held in Guantanamo Bay since 2003, reached an agreement with the Office of Military Commissions (OMC) after 27 months of negotiations. In a letter to victims' families of the 9/11 attacks, the Department of Defense argued that the plea deal was the best path forward to achieve justice in the case.

"This is what we need to be talking about," Fox News host Laura Ingraham wrote in response to the plea deal. "Typical Biden-Harris move.  Throw the book at people who 'trespassed' at the Capitol and give a break to the 9/11 mastermind!"

After her comments at the CNN town hall in 2019, Harris clarified her position, explaining, “Do I think that people who commit murder, people who are terrorists, should be deprived of their rights? Yeah, I do. I’m a prosecutor, I believe that in terms of, there has to be serious consequence for the most extreme types of crimes.”

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Kamala Harris wants freedom for terrorists and sexual abusers. pic.twitter.com/63GcKf1HfX

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