During the '16 election cycle, the @NRA spent over $25 mill+ supporting @realDonaldTrump mostly for TV. They distributed and placed ads using the same network of consulting firms that placed the Trump campaign’s own advertisements.https://campaignlegal.org/update/nra-and-trump-campaign-worked-together-influence-voters …
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The NRA can legally make unlimited expenditures to support the Trump campaign ONLY IF the organizations are completely independent.
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But if the same people buying ads for the Trump campaign also placed the NRA’s pro-Trump ads, then the NRA’s spending was not at all independent. This is a violation of federal law. As
@brendan_fischer and others on staff have been saying for a while!Show this thread -
And it is not just Trump! In the 2018 cycle, Josh Hawley in Missouri and Matt Rosendale in Montana both coordinated with the
@NRAhttps://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article220478890.html …Show this thread -
It's time Congress puts a stop to this. Because it's clear that the
@FEC doesn't have any teeth.Show this thread
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