Broadcasters should be ordered to stop running Trump commercials that appear to violate US laws, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said today in a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission. The ads appear to violate laws against using taxpayer funds for propaganda and a law that restricts political activity by federal government employees, the group said.

“The most recent of these taxpayer-funded campaign ads, entitled ‘The Final Battle,’ is a copied version of an ad that the Trump campaign committee issued in the 2024 election,” Public Citizen wrote. “In dead serious black-and-white footage, Trump is seen marching down a corridor with a stern look, while the audio blares: ‘This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government.’ A notice at the bottom of the screen announces: ‘Paid for by the US government.’”

Trump also says in the ad, “We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country, we will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.” It uses the same video and audio from an ad Trump used in 2024, with the main difference being that the 2024 version was paid for by Trump’s campaign committee instead of the US government. The White House claims its recent ads are public service announcements.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    Wow, he sounds just like hitler…

    Also,

    We will expel the warmongers from our government

    He is the warmonger in our fucking government.

    Also,

    Broadcasters should be ordered to stop running Trump commercials that appear to violate US laws, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said today in a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission.

    Who’s gonna give that order? Those agencies are run by trump-appointees…

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    Operation Mockingbird was over fifty years ago. Fake news is older than you think; we orchestrate events at home and abroad to allow the news to report on it in certain ways and shape public opinion. We’re sneaky like that in the CIA.

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    So you know what I thought was particularly outrageous? Those Israel superbowl ads. I don’t understand how a foreign country was allowed to buy propaganda airtime in the United States. They’ve run so many ads. Is our government just defunct? We are persecuting night time comedians for Talarico interviews but propaganda gets green lit.

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    Guy who controls the cops and has absolute immunity for any crime he commits according to the Supreme Court commits another crime.

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    He doesn’t care. He’s going to keep breaking laws until held accountable and nobody has the balls to actually do that.

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      The fuck does “balls” have to do with it?

      Either you’re a complete fucking moron about what can and cannot be done to stop him, or you’re calling for violence against him as a way to change this, which makes you a different kind of complete fucking moron.

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    The word allegedly is going to need a long vacation after this government is gone.

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      Yeah I am tired of broad daylight crimes with ample evidence treated as “alleged.”

      It’s like saying the murder is “alleged” when the cops showed up to see the murderer in the act of stabbing the victim over and over and it was all caught on their fucking body cameras. They had to pull the murderer away from the victim’s body. “Alleged.”

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        It’s all due to legal liability. Even in your example, it’s theoretically in the realm of possibility that the cops found the person stabbing a body that was already dead. It’s stupid, but if they just say alleged, most of the possible lawsuits just go away.

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    Add it to the crime pile over there in the corner. Wait, sorry; it’s grown a bit since I last checked. You want the crime pile sitting on the horizon that looks vaguely like Mt. Whitney.

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    It helps to know the following when reading news nowadays.

    Allegedly = It absolutely is true but we don’t have the money for a counter suit from billionaires

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    They keep pushing. Their entire premise is that the President has absolute power and authority. They keep doing these things to… prove it. If nobody says NO, he indeed has the authority to do this.