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1/ "In one message to Mr. Nader in March 2017, Mr. Broidy referred to Secure America Now, an advocacy organization... as “one of the groups I am working with.”
Mar 21, 2018:
nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/…
May 24, 2016:
web.archive.org/web/2016092114…
Apr 3 2017:
americanmediainstitute.com/investigations…
"the ad was meant to stoke viewers’ fears of imminent Muslim conquest, the video is interspersed with violent imagery. Three missiles are seen flying through the sky as the video opens. (con't)
Apr 5, 2018:
opensecrets.org/news/2018/04/e…
"As a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, SecureAmericaNow (SAN) is not required to disclose its donors to the public... (con't)
Other donors included:
"$2 million from the 45Committee, another pro-Trump dark money group, which is itself partly funded by other dark money groups." (more)
"Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing States
The big tech companies worked closely with Secure America Now to target an audience the group felt could be swayed by the message."
Oct 18, 2017:
webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…
May2017:
forbes.com/sites/stevenbe…
Aug 23, 2016:
"About two weeks after super PAC Make America Great Again was formed in June 2015, it got its biggest cash infusion of the cycle... (con't)
Jun 7, 2018:
thedailybeast.com/the-original-d…
"Finding itself under a microscope and publicly shunned by the Trump campaign, Make America Great Again ceased operations less than six months later." (more)
"Lewandowski denied that Trump or the campaign had given the green light to Make America Great Again." "In a later interview, he threatened to file a lawsuit if The Washington Post... (con't)
washingtonpost.com/politics/the-i…
"There are a number of links between the real estate tycoon’s political operation and the Make America Great Again PAC."
Of course PACs are required to be separate from campaigns, but DJT and staff can't read. /pause