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Dec 5, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A super PAC that was formed in Sept 2018 called the American Pro-Israel PAC spent $38,871.77 at Mar-a-Lago, the private club that President Trump still owns and profits from, in November 2018: docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
The super PAC posted video and pictures of the event, which took place on Nov. 24, on their website. One of the videos includes an image of President Trump waving to people, suggesting he may have stopped by their event. americanproisraelpac.org
Apr 24, 2018 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
.@elianayjohnson reports that a #darkmoney group, the previously unknown American Exceptionalism Institute, is spending $100k on ads that accuse Sen. Rand Paul of representing al Qaeda’s interest with his opposition to Gina Haspel’s CIA director nomination politico.com/story/2018/04/…
Johnson notes that the group was “incorporated a year ago by Columbus, Ohio-based attorney James Ryan.” American Exceptionalism Institute is now the third entity incorporated Ryan that started spending money to targeting politicians with ads.