Trump Make America Great Again Committee Tmagac

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A newly formed political action commission is using Donald Trump's name and trademarked slogan—"Make America Great Again"—in an unusual fundraising ploy. The group, the Not bad America PAC, has no connection to the Trump campaign, only information technology has been blasting out emails soliciting donations that it claims will be channeled direct to Squad Trump. In a recent email, the PAC implored donors to aid "build a grassroots wall of back up around Donald Trump by chipping in at to the lowest degree $five to have your name placed on his official FEC study by signing the 'I Support Donald Trump' petition." On the PAC'southward website, donors are asked to donate between $v and $1,000.

The website notes that the start $five of each donation will be sent to the Trump campaign. And Dan Capitalist, the group's treasurer, tells Mother Jones that this money is indeed "earmarked" for Trump. What happens to the rest of the money, for whatsoever donations greater than $5, is not clear. The e-mail does promise to use money the group raises to build a vaguely described grassroots operation that will aid support Trump. Only there's no telling how much of the money gathered by this Trumpy PAC will directly fund pro-Trump activities.

The fundraising email is signed by Amy Kremer, a sometime chairman of the Tea Political party Express. Kremer did not respond to a request for annotate.

A recipient of the electronic mail might be forgiven for assuming it comes from an official Trump-approved outfit. The website prominently features the official Trump slogan: "Make America Dandy Again." And there may be a problem with that. Trump trademarked that phrase for the purposes of "political entrada services, namely, promoting public awareness of Donald J. Trump as a candidate for public office; providing online information regarding political problems and the 2016 presidential election;" and for "fundraising in the field of politics." The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for annotate.

Asked about the PAC's employ of the trademarked phrase, Capitalist, a Virginia-based attorney who has helped fix upwardly a number of bourgeois-oriented PACs that capitalize on current events, said the phrase is a quote from Ronald Reagan.

The Great America PAC was first registered with the Federal Election Commission on February 1. Only it paid to run pro-Trump radio ads in Iowa in Jan—which is legal. The ads, which toll a total of $25,000, were produced and placed on air by a mysterious ad-buying firm called GRP Buying LLC, using a rented mailbox at a shipping center in Columbus, Ohio. The PAC has also spent $x,000 on television ads and $15,000 on electronic mail blasts.

Initially, this PAC tried to associate itself even more closely with Trump by using the name TrumPAC. Simply a PAC may not use a candidate'southward name if information technology doesn't have the candidate's permission. (For case, last year a super-PAC backing Carly Fiorina was forced to create an elaborate acronym to proceed its proper noun: CARLY for America.) When the FEC contacted the PAC in February and inquired about its use of the TrumPAC proper noun, Backer, an FEC critic who was the lawyer in a key Supreme Courtroom instance two years ago that removed caps on how much money donors can contribute to political campaigns and committees, had a sharp response. In a letter to the FEC, he stated he didn't know anyone running for office named "TRUMPAC." He informed the FEC that another political party, whom he did not identify, had requested it change its name and that it would practice so, but not because the FEC asked.

So how much has the Great America PAC raised with its Trumpish solicitations? It doesn't have to file any disclosure reports until tardily March.

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