EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s $300M-plus ad blitz to “defeat despair” on coronavirus involves celebrities like Dennis Quaid — and contractors who are business associates of a top political appointee. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/25/trump-hhs-ads-coronavirus-421957
To fund the ad blitz, officials abruptly took $300 million from the CDC — mid-pandemic — with little explanation.
CDC experts were subsequently frozen out of the campaign’s development, despite the agency paying for it.
CDC experts were subsequently frozen out of the campaign’s development, despite the agency paying for it.