WASHINGTON — Wednesday night, a local CBS News reporter in Miami noticed something unusual during a Fox News commercial break: a punchy pro-Trump ad that said it was paid for by the U.S. government.
The ad begins with President Trump saying a frequent line he uses on the campaign trail: “Together we will defeat communism, Marxism in America once and for all.” The ad follows with dozens of images of the president at White House events. Playing in the background is a choir singing “Love Me.” Trump ends by saying “America will never be a communist country” and in small letters at the bottom of the screen it reads, “Paid for by the U.S. government.”
The administration’s decision to fund an advertisement that appears to include a voice clip from the Republican National Convention could violate federal law, ethics experts said.
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