Harrison Ford teams up with Lincoln Project for video backing Fauci after Trump sacking threat

The two videos urge Americans to make their votes count and ‘fire’ Trump instead

On the eve of election day in the US, The Lincoln Project has released a series of anti-Trump videos featuring the Star Wars actors Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.

The videos come as a last-minute appeal to voters from the political action committee, which is run by former Republicans with a clear stance against the current president. The tweeted videos were followed by several in support of the Democrat nominee Joe Biden.

Titled “Fauci”, the first video is voiced by Ford, where he talks about the recent statements by Mr Trump against the nation’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci and the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Talking about Dr Fauci, Ford says: “He has served the American people tirelessly, honourably and selflessly from Reagan to Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama, and now, to Trump.”

The clip then shows Trump supporters in his Florida rally yelling, “Fire Fauci!” and Mr Trump responding: “Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election.”

The statement from President Trump just 48 hours before polling began created a major backlash. Ford concludes the video saying: “Tomorrow, you can fire any of them, the choice is yours.”

The Lincoln Project also released a separate video with Hamill, entitled “Absentee”, where the actor narrates the history of absentee voting and calls the president’s call for only ballots that come in by election day to be counted as “tyranny.”

The actor says: “Tyranny didn’t end with the American Revolution. Not for everyone. Not by a longshot. Nearly a hundred years of elected leaders failed to write that wrong, and America went to war with ourselves to fix it. Never before has the truth been so clear: elections have consequences.”

He adds: “Now, more than 150 years later, tyranny is looking for a new foothold.

“President Trump has called for the election to be decided on and only on those ballots that arrive by 3 November,” Hamill says. “If he gets his way, many who cast absentee ballots will not have their votes counted. This will deny thousands of troops overseas of their most sacred right.”

Once again, the video ends with a message encouraging viewers to vote.

“Donald Trump doesn’t get to decide the future of America’s leadership. The American people do,” Hamill says. “Make every vote count. And count every vote.”