Judge Orders Three Taxpayer-Funded Trump Administration Ads Pulled From TV and Social Media
A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must pull three taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads that appear to have been made for political or propaganda purposes, the Associated Press reported.
The federal government must pull three taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads that appear to have been made for political or propaganda purposes, a judge ruled on Friday, according to the Associated Press report carried in PBS NewsHour's election coverage and read this cycle. One of the ads touts the president's claim that every American will get $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress in the upcoming election.
The ruling, reported by the AP's Larry Neumeister and Ali Swenson, lands in the final days of the midterm campaign, as both parties make their closing stops and early voting surges nationally. The desk carries the ruling at the level the AP report states it — three ads, taxpayer-funded, ordered pulled from television and social media — and no further details of the order were in the report read this run, so none are added here.
The item is the second election-administration ruling out of the federal courts on Friday: in a separate case, U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson ordered the Justice Department to stop threatening election officials over alleged noncitizen voters, covered in full by this station in SQ-20261031-012.
