Trump personally helped orchestrate taxpayer-funded ads promoting himself and his policies: CNN
The White House says the spots are public service announcements, while critics say they use taxpayer money to promote Trump before the midterms.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump's taxpayer-funded advertisements aired during NFL broadcasts on Fox, including the Washington Commanders-Seattle Seahawks and Carolina Panthers-Cleveland Browns games, ending with "Paid for by the US Government."
- Trump advisers confirmed the ads were produced in-house by the White House video team, with CNN reporting a source revealed Trump was directly and creatively involved in selecting imagery for the campaign.
- Audio in the advertisements echoes Trump's November 2023 speech in Claremont, New Hampshire, where he declared "This is the final battle" and vowed to cast out communists and Marxists.
- Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin alleged the ads constitute felony criminal theft of government property and a Hatch Act violation, while congressional Democrats on Thursday demanded the White House remove the ad, calling it "the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea."
- The White House defended the spots as public service announcements intended to remind Americans to love their country, though critics argued the imagery is undeniably meant to promote Trump as a warrior battling existential threats.
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Fox News has been caught red-handed embedding propaganda in their shows, proving that the mainstream media is a covert arm of the globalist machine, using taxpayer funds to brainwash the public against President Trump. President Trump is using his mastery of media to bypass the corrupt gatekeepers by personally selecting and airing government-funded ads that expose the "deep state," "globalists," and "warmongers," directly challenging the estab…
Fact-check: Are taxpayer-funded Trump ads public service announcements or 'propaganda'?
Weeks before the midterm elections, the Trump administration released a series of taxpayer-funded ads prominently featuring President Donald Trump promoting his agenda, and Democratic lawmakers called them illegal propaganda.
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