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1. WOW

ABC affiliates around the country are promoting a Trump campaign fundraising gimmick - Trump's birthday card - and presenting it as "news."

One, @cleveland19news , links directly to the Trump's fundraising site

The other are just copying and pasting text from the GOP
@cleveland19news 2. These are the "articles" the affiliates are linking to.

Some, like @ABC7Chicago, appear to be taking them offline now.

But how did this ever happen in the first place?

(Shoutout to @TrumpEmail for alerting me to this.)
3. A huge problem with campaign coverage is that a lot of the meaningful activity has moved online but most media hasn't adapted. It's still focused on events

If you receive my newsletter, you'd be very familiar with this b-day card scam

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The birthday card is a classic Trump grift that has also been playing out on Facebook
.@ABC addresses the controversy: The piece was initially posted “by an overnight producer at one of our local stations and they did not follow the station’s editorial standards.”

They've been taken down.

thedailybeast.com/abc-news-local…
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