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Twelve Million and a Line Item
Read more . . . →The Department of Homeland Security set aside $20 million for TV ads. Not for emergency preparedness or border security updates. For campaign commercials starring Donald Trump, three weeks before the midterms. AdImpact says $12 million has already been spent. The DNC filed a lawsuit last week, and the lawsuit is the boring part. Nobody had to be coerced into this. DHS budgeted it as a line item. Your tax money, converted into thirty-second spots about how great the president is, aired in swing districts where Republican House candidates are polling underwater. Trump’s defense: “Done by presidents before.” The answer of...
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