An alt-weekly newspaper in Miami ran a pro-Donald Trump ad that featured a misleading quote from President Joe Biden using the N-word in 1985 and false conspiracy theories, Axios Miami reported.
The full-page "advertorial" ran on the back page of the Miami New Times in its June 13-19 print editions, which was still available Wednesday, the report said.
The ad doesn't disclose who bought it but it directs readers to a Blacks for Trump website, a group that often appears at the former president's rallies holding up signs.
The publisher of the Miami News Times said the ad should never have run in the paper.
"Naturally, had I seen it, which I should have, I would not have let it run as is," Adam Simon told Axios.
He said staffers at the alt-weekly usually review the ads but the ad came in after the deadline and Simon said he didn't see it.
Simon said the newspaper will no longer run ads that arrive so late they can't be reviewed.
The ad did not appear in the digital version of the newspaper.
The ad claimed Biden used the slur during a 1985 Senate hearing when questioning a Louisiana state legislator's about his racist comments.
The claim, which appeared on social media during the 2020 election, has been debunked and shows that Biden was reading the legislator's comments from a statement.
Maurice Symonette, the Miami man who founded Blacks for Trump, told Axios that he stands by the ad.
"I've heard a lot of white men quoting people but when they get to that word, every decent white person says 'the N-word,'" he said.
Axios reported that Symonette, who at one time belonged to the black supremacist Nation of Yahweh group, once said that he believed that white people had "wicked powers."
The Miami Herald reported that the group was accused of plotting 14 murders.
