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donny f and backer?<a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/01/31/20642/meet-true-source-those-viral-donald-trump-tv-ads">https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/01/31/20642/meet-true-source-those-viral-donald-trump-tv-ads</a>
<div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 1280px;"><div class="field-item even first" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="body-copy-inner" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 410px 0px 250px; border: 0px; line-height: 28px; width: 1280px;">Twitter is abuzz over <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoRH60R0zo" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">a pro-President Donald Trump television advertisement</a> that urges viewers to call a toll-free number and “pledge your support to defend Donald Trump.”“We need every Trump supporter to pick up the phone now!” the ad’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoRH60R0zo" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">fast-talking narrator says</a> as he also slams “liberals in the Democratic Party” and the “crooked media” for attacking the newly inaugurated president.The narrator continues: “They think they are going to destroy Trump’s presidency, but they are wrong! … Make your voice heard and help drain the swamp!”The ad became too much for “<a href="https://twitter.com/jess4_RK" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">@Jess4_RK</a>,” an unverified Twitter user, then with a few hundred followers.On Saturday, she <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3439256-trumptweet2.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted a video</a> of herself watching the ad on CNN and included this all-caps commentary: “WHAT IN THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH???????????????????????????WHEN HAS A PRESIDENT EVER DONE THIS???! IM SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!”Legions of people — including celebrities — began retweeting @Jess4_RK and commenting on her post, which garnered more than 30,000 retweets before she <a href="https://twitter.com/Jess4_RK/status/825358392575266816" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">blocked public access</a> to her account.“WTF?!?!?” <a href="https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/825561679215857668" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted</a> actress Debra Messing.“This is just pathetic. Sounds like a commercial for aluminum siding you see on AMC in the middle of a Gunsmoke marathon,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/825567746666553344" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">snarked</a> musician Mikel Jollett.Many outraged commenters believe that Trump himself — or those within Trump’s inner circle — were responsible for the ad.They are mistaken. Not only is there no connection to Trump, the ad is made possible by a group that employs a one-time Trump hater who is making a pretty penny.Who’s behind it?As noted in the fine print displayed in the ad’s final few seconds, the ad is sponsored by the “Committee to Defend the President.”As it <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3438088-committeetodefendthepresident.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">described itself in its own fine print</a>, the Committee to Defend the President is a“project of Stop Hillary PAC” and “not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.” (On Saturday, Stop Hillary PAC officially <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3438089-NameChange.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">changed its name</a> to “The Committee to Defend the President,” <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/619/201701289041532619/201701289041532619.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">according to federal records</a>.)Stop Hillary PAC, for its part, is a <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2012/01/meet-the-super-super-pac-071763" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">hybrid super PAC</a> that <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/917/13031070917/13031070917.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">formed on May 16, 2013</a> —more than two years before Trump announced his presidential run.</div></div></div><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 1280px;"><div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><publici-ad-unit name="Article-In-Text-Pushdown-Top" class="ng-isolate-scope" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="unit Article-In-Text-Pushdown-Top" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="creative Email-Subscribe-Article-In-Text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><publici-ad-creative class="ng-isolate-scope" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div ng-class="{'container':creative.opts.container}" class="ng-scope" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><nav class="email-signup-form-wrapper ng-scope" ng-controller="EmailSubscribeController" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"></nav></div></publici-ad-creative></div></div></publici-ad-unit><div class="body-copy-inner" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 410px 0px 250px; border: 0px; line-height: 28px; width: 1280px;">[pix] <a href="http://www.campaignsolutions.com/team/short/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Guy Short</a>, vice president of fundraising for political consulting firm Campaign Solutions, is a Stop Hillary PAC consultant and, according to an advertising disclosure <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3438270-Stop-Hillary-PAC-FCC.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">document</a> filed on January 16 with the Federal Communications Commission, “founder.” Campaign Solutions, it so happens, is also Stop Hillary PAC’s top vendor, according to federal records.Short, who <a href="https://www.minnpost.com/dc-dispatches/2013/04/bachmanns-leadership-pac-could-be-key-ethics-investigation" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">made</a> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/25/exclusive-congressional-ethics-probe-adds-to-bachmann-s-political-woes.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">headlines</a> earlier this decade for his political work with ex-Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is never mentioned in Stop Hillary PAC’s public communications to supporters and potential donors. And he’s no unabashed supporter of Trump.For example, Short last year <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/23/politics/colorado-gop-republican-national-convention-delegate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">served</a> as a delegate to the Republican National Convention — and pledged to back Sen. Ted Cruz, the Republican U.S. senator who ran against Trump. Short last year also called Trump a “liar,” <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0X81HE" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">telling Reuters</a> in April that he “spent thousands of dollars of my own money campaigning to become a delegate because it's that important to make sure Donald Trump is NOT our nominee."In an <a href="https://www.coloradostatesman.com/short-trumps-cynical-assault-colorado-national-delegates/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">opinion piece published last year</a> in the Colorado Statesman, Short further accused Trump of “spewing his usual fiction” and trafficking in “insults, lies, distortion and vulgarity.” He also lamented: “It’s very worrisome to wonder how a man like Trump would exercise the powers of the presidency.”In an email Monday, Short noted that he and many other Republicans, including Trump’s general election campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, didn’t support Trump during the party’s primary.“After the primary was over and my preferred candidate lost the nomination, I worked hard to defeat Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump — just like I have in the past five presidential cycles when my preferred candidate didn’t win,” Short said, adding that he contributed $5,000 to Trump’s transition committee. “The President has my full support. This is about as common in politics as its gets. I fail to see how this is newsworthy.”<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/10/dan-backer-campaign-finance-mccutcheon-supreme-court/6259863/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Dan Backer</a> — a Virginia-based lawyer and political consultant who serves as Stop Hillary PAC’s treasurer — confirmed Short has worked with Stop Hillary PAC since its inception in 2013.“Guy regularly talks to media vendors on behalf of [the Committee to Defend the President] to ensure digital and non-digital communications are in sync,” Backer said. “He was tasked with point on this particular project.”Initially, Stop Hillary PAC made its most notable mark on politics by <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/01/17430/anti-hillary-groups-fec-take-hike" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">feuding with the Federal Election Commission</a> over whether it could even use its own name.Federal law <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2013-title11-vol1/pdf/CFR-2013-title11-vol1-sec102-14.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">stipulates</a>: “No unauthorized committee shall include the name of any candidate in its name." And while the FEC <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/454/15330081454/15330081454.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">prodded</a> Stop Hillary PAC to comply, it refused, even after Hillary Clinton in April 2013 announced she’d seek the Democratic presidential nomination.Then, last year, Stop Hillary PAC raised eyebrows when it <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2806354-Stophillarypac-Centerforpublicintegrityemail.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">emailed fundraising pleas</a> — signed by “Donald and Ted,” sans last names — at a time when Trump and Cruz were still battling to win the Republican presidential nomination.The PAC <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/04/21/19580/1-billion-spent-2016-presidential-race-and-other-numbers-know" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">later explained to the Center for Public Integrity</a> that “Donald” is Donald Ferguson, the PAC’s political director, and “Ted” is <a href="http://kdvr.com/2013/07/22/colo-sen-ted-harvey-leading-new-stop-hillary-super-pac/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Ted Harvey</a>, its chairman....<div>
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