Mike Ciletti

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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mike Ciletti was a principal in Phase Line Strategies, a Colorado public affairs and political consulting firm founded in 2002. In 2006, he was a spokesman for Wal-Mart.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>In 2009 he started <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_West_Public_Affairs" title="New West Public Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New West Public Affairs</a>, a Colorado firm that organizes grassroots advocacy campaigns and promotes <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Teleforum" title="Teleforum" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Teleforum</a> as a PR and advocacy tool to help influence statewide legislation. He started the firm with his friend, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jake_Zambrano" title="Jake Zambrano" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jake Zambrano</a>.Prior to joining Phase Line, Ciletti served as Deputy Director for Colorado Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Owens" title="Bill Owens" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Owens</a>' Office of Innovation and Technology. He also worked for for U.S. Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wayne_Allard" title="Wayne Allard" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wayne Allard</a> (R-CO) and Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joel_Hefley" title="Joel Hefley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Joel Hefley</a> (R-CO).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> He was also political director of the Colorado Republican Party from 1999-2000. He obtained a BS in political science from Regis University in 1994<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a>
<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#SourceWatch_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 SourceWatch resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">SourceWatch resources</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_West_Public_Affairs" title="New West Public Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New West Public Affairs</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Teleforum" title="Teleforum" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Teleforum</a></li></ul><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">External resources</h2><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contact</h2><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">References</h2><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="-webkit-user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Our Community News <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcommunitynews.org/v6n4.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">Volume 6, No. 4</a> Online newsletter for Monument, Palmer Lake and surrounding Tri-Lakes area, Colorado April 1, 2009. Accessed February 28, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="-webkit-user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Spoke <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spoke.com/info/p4JRjEC/MikeCiletti" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">Mike Ciletti's professional profile</a> Web site, accessed February 24, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="-webkit-user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> LinkedIn Profile <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/124/400" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">Mike Ciletti</a>, accessed February 24, 2009]</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lobbying</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Public_relations" title="Category:Public relations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Public relations</a></li></ul></div></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jake Zambrano was a principal at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Phase_Line_Strategies" title="Phase Line Strategies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Phase Line Strategies</a>, a Colorado public affairs and political consulting firm. In 2009, he founded <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_West_Public_Affairs" title="New West Public Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New West Public Affairs</a> with his friend and colleague from Phase Line, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Ciletti" title="Mike Ciletti" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Ciletti</a>.Zambrano joined Phase Line Strategies as a principal in 2004. Prior to joining Phase Line he was the Director of Government Affairs for the Colorado Department of Higher Education. He was instrumental in the passage of legislation instituting an educational "voucher" system. Zambrano served as the Director of Operations for Governor Bill Owens during both his first and second terms. As the liaison for the Governor to official White House visits, Zambrano was a member of numerous White House advance teams that planned and managed events that highlighted both President Bush's and Governor Owens' policy agendas. He was campaign manager for Congressman Scott McInnis (R-CO) in 1996 and 1998. Zambrano is a graduate of the University of Colorado. He and his wife, Kerra, reside in Aurora, Colorado with their two children.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jake_Zambrano#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jake_Zambrano#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jake_Zambrano#SourceWatch_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 SourceWatch resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jake_Zambrano#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jake_Zambrano#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jake_Zambrano#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; 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By Matea Gold October 22, 2015 Trump: 'I don't need anybody's money' Embed  Share Play Video1:33
During his presidential announcement in June, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a hypothetical story about taxing goods manufactured outside the United States, saying he is "really rich" and wouldn't kowtow to donors. (AP)This post has been updated.
A super PAC with ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign is shutting down in an effort to put an end to building questions about the closeness of the two operations, the group's lead consultant said Thursday.
After The Washington Post reported this week on multiple connections between Trump and the Make America Great Again PAC, Mike Ciletti, the Colorado-based operative running the group, said he had decided to close up shop.
"It's an issue that I have relationships with Mr. Trump's staff," he said in a phone interview. "I will eliminate the questions and shut down the super PAC." Ciletti's decision was first reported by Politico.
The Post reported this week that Trump's campaign has paid two firms connected to Ciletti, a longtime associate of Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Ciletti also solicited a major GOP donor using contact information he suggested came from Trump's personal assistant, The Post reported.
Ciletti said Thursday that he did not receive the donor contact information "from anyone employed by the Trump Organization or the Trump campaign," but refused to say how he obtained it. He also said that any work he did for Trump came before the real estate mogul officially entered the race in mid-June.

The Colorado GOP operative declined to say whether Lewandowski played a role in setting up the super PAC or whether Trump had authorized the super PAC to use his Rolodex to reach potential contributors.
"How it came into existence isn't really relevant at this point," he said. He started the group, he said, because "it was an opportunity to have an important role in the presidential race." But, Ciletti added, "its impact will never be realized."
He said neither Trump nor anyone from his campaign had asked him to shut down the operation.
Ciletti said the group had a half a dozen consultants and had already begun spending money on voter data and media. Now, he said, Make America Great Again will fulfill its remaining obligations to vendors and refund any leftover donations. He declined to say how much the super PAC had raised, which does not have to be reported until January."My intent with the super PAC was to keep the focus on the candidate, where it should be," he said.<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Make America Great Again. It's Donald Trump's campaign slogan. It's on the caps his campaign sells to admirers, and it's also the name of an ostensibly independent superPAC.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Or it was until this week, when the superPAC said it was going out of business. It ran aground on stories in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-ties-emerge-between-trump-operation-and-super-pac/2015/10/20/80e7450a-7753-11e5-bc80-9091021aeb69_story.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(80, 118, 184); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">the Washington Post</a>, revealing connections linking the superPAC with Trump's campaign and his office.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">The Post reported that Colorado political consultant Mike Ciletti has business ties to Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and also runs the superPAC. The paper also reported that Ciletta seemed to be soliciting superPAC contributions from Trump business contacts. Federal law bars candidates and their campaigns from soliciting big, unregulated contributions for superPACs.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Ciletti is also a principal in a company called Wizbang Solutions. The Trump campaign paid Wizbang $41,300 in the third quarter for printing, design and direct mail. Ciletti didn't respond to NPR's request for comment.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Trump's campaign finance lawyer, former Federal Election Commission chairman Donald McGahn, wrote to MAGA and eight other pro-Trump superPACs on Wednesday, telling them to stop using Trump's name and image. McGahn said Trump appreciates small, unsolicited contributions, but didn't want donors misled into "supporting an unauthorized effort, one which is subject to no oversight."<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">MAGA got a $100,000 contribution this summer from <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/08/25/434513764/donald-trump-changes-his-tune-and-begins-to-court-wealthy-donors" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(80, 118, 184); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">the mother-in-law of Trump's daughter Ivanka</a>.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Another link between Trump and MAGA is its very name. <a href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85783371&docId=APP20121122072845#docIndex=26&page=1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(80, 118, 184); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Donald Trump filed in 2012 to trademark the phrase Make America Great Again</a> for use with a political action committee. <a href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85783371&docId=SOU20150528154854#docIndex=5&page=1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(80, 118, 184); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">He first used it</a> this past May – an essential step in the application process – and the <a href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85783371&docId=ORC20150714001230#docIndex=0&page=1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(80, 118, 184); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Patent and Trademark Office registered it</a> in July.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">McGahn and the campaign didn't respond to questions about the name and usage rights.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">npr</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CNN's Corey Lewandowski fiasco is probably the worst conflict-of-interest problem in the history of cable news. In addition to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F2b9NesV&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly1&n=17&v=235" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472231308398_6105" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">still being paid money by Trump</a>, Lewandowski <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F2brSiu6&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly1&n=18&v=235" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">announced</a> Thursday that he was joining the Trump campaign on the trail. The situation is so bad that Lewandowski is now <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F2bsSmtP&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly1&n=19&v=235" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">being confronted</a> on the air. Stephen Colbert <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F2brdH73&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly1&n=20&v=235" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">even brought it up</a> with Anderson Cooper.</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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