BREAKING: GET HIM! Rep. Jamie Raskin pounces on Trump's blatantly illegal use of our tax dollars for MAGA political ads by demanding that the Government Accountability Office and the Office of Special Counsel immediately investigate.
And come November, Raskin gets subpoena power...
“President Trump is obviously desperate for the American people to ‘love’ him, a problem that goes beyond your jurisdiction. But stealing taxpayer dollars to pay for Mr Trump’s narcissistic ego trips is plainly illegal," Raskin and Rep. George Whitesides wrote to the federal watchdog groups.
The ads have quickly snowballed into a major scandal for Trump for the obvious reason that a President cannot be allowed to take our money, turn around, and use it to fund propaganda to help his party in the midterm elections.
One of the ads urges Americans to "love" Trump. Another features him vowing to defeat "communists, Marxists, and fascists" as well as "warmongers," an ironic promise since Trump is himself a fascist warmonger who started the most idiotic, disastrous war in American history with this Iran conflict.
Raskin and Whitesides are urging the GAO to identify the source of the money and tally exactly how much was used. They're also pushing for a formal decision on which, if any, laws were broken. Spoiler: laws were broken.
Specifically, Raskin and Whitesides believe that Trump and his minions violated a provision in the spending bill that outlaws the use of funds for “publicity or propaganda" as well as the Anti-Deficiency Act, federal laws governing the misuse of public money, as well as the Hatch Act. While the President is exempt from the Hatch Act, the lackeys who presumably helped with the ads are not.
“These ads constitute an illegal use of taxpayer funds, perhaps best demonstrated by the fact that they are virtually identical to the ones Donald Trump used during his 2024 presidential campaign, and in fact use the same footage and the same inept ideological messaging,” wrote Raskin and Whitesides.
The deeply uncomfortable truth for Trump and his Republican cult is that they're heading into a shellacking in the midterm elections and at this point there's nothing they can do about it. We're going to show up en masse, vote blue, and hand subpoena power to Raskin and his fellow Democrats. Then, they're going to set about uncovering every last crime that this mafia regime has committed.
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