President Donald Trump is facing fierce criticism over taxpayer-funded TV ads featuring wording from his campaign speeches that aired just five weeks before the midterm elections. The ads do not make a direct call for voters to support specific candidates or Republicans in November. The White House is using that fact to maintain that the ads are not political, but rather “public service…
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President Donald Trump has doled out around $150,000 in cash gifts to three young, loyalist White House employees, including his controversial executive assistant Natalie Harp. The gifts were detailed on disclosure forms, which federal workers are required to fill out each year. The payments were officially listed as “Cash Gift for Holidays” on all three of the staffers’ disclosures.
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A nonprofit government watchdog organization has filed a formal complaint against Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy, alleging that a reality television show he and his family are taking part in likely violates federal ethics rules. Duffy and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children, are starring in a series called “The Great American Road Trip”…
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