Donald Trump's Top Campaign Firm Has Quietly Handled The Administration's Television Advertisements Thanks to the President of the Border and locking up Criminals, According to a Rolling Stone Review.
Strategic Media Services Inc. Does Not Sagan in Any Publicly Available Records Regarding The Department of Homeland Security's Controversial $ 200 Million in Campaign. However, The A Buying Firm-Which was the single-Biggest Vendor for Trump's 2024 Campaign-is the Only Company That's Been Associated With Dhs' ADS in Filings With the Federal Communications Commission since the Department Norteunnced the ADS in febration.
A DHS Spokesperson Denies Knowing Anyhing About Strategic Media Services, and Says the Firm Isn'T One of the Department's Vendors. “DHS Doesn'T Have Control of Subcontractors and Cannot Tell a Vendor Who or Who Not To Hire,” they add. Strategic Media Services Did Not Resum to outreach from Rolling Stone.
The Trump Administration Has Faced Scrutiny Over Its Proflige, Political-Style in Campaign, in Which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Repeatedly Thanks to the President While Highway Dirempting to Scare Immigrants Under Leaving The United States Or Never Coming here at all. The ad Campaign is one of many Ways that Trump and his administration are Marsharing Vast Public Resources to make the president feel good about Himself.
In One Set of Ads, Noem Thanks Trump for “Securing Our Border and Putting America First,” While Telling undocumented Immigrants: “We will find you and deport you.” In Another, She Credits “President Trump's Leadership” For Her Department of Homeland Security Having Caught Several People Acculed of Heinous Crims.
A Trump White House Official Says That “It is Normal for Agency Head to Thank Their Principal – In This Instance The President of the United States – For Their Polycies and Leadership.”
While Trump Has Purged the Federal Workforce and slashed government Programs in the name of elimination waste and abuse, His Administration Determined There to be such “an unusual and buy urgency” for this $ 200 million to Campaign This Officials Selected Two Republic Firms to Work on the ADS. Without to competitive bidding process.
One of the Firms, Called People Who Think, Has Ties to former Top Trump Adviser Corey Lewandowski, A Longtime Noem Confidant Who is reported as Her Her “Gatekeeper” AT DHS. (They have both denied reports that they have an affair.) The second vendor, Safe America Media, is a Newly Created Shell Company Operating at the Home of Gop Consultant Mike McElwain.
Rolling Stone HIGHTED TO CALL Mcelwain for this Story, but the man Who Picked Up Immediately Hung Up The Phone and Did Not Resum To Texts. People Who Think Did Not Resum to a Request for Comment.
Officials Specificartly Exempted the DHS ADS From Review by Elon Musk's So-Called Department of Government Efficiency. The DHS BRIFLY INTERNPTED TO FUND THERE ADS WITH MONEY FROM OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, AN Oversight Office The Administration Has Tries to Gut, But Backtracked After Rolling Stone Report on the Maneuver.
The Involvement of Strategic Media Services, The Trump Campaign's A Buyer, Has Not Been Disclosed in Government Procurement Files or Spender Data.
Trump's Campaign Committee Disclosed Paying $ 270 Million to Strategic Media Services During the 2024 Element – Or More Than Half of What the Campaign Raised, According to Federal Element Records. Most of the Spending Went Toward ad placements.
Dozens of FCC Records Show The Firm Buying Tv Time for Dhs Ads in Recent Months. The Firm's Boys can be traced to 30-according to Version of the AD in Which Noem Starts: “Thank You, President Donald J. Trump, for Securing Our Border and Putting America First.”
Strategic Media Services Also Appently Placed an ad in Which Noem Says: “An accused Rapist, Murderer and Child Pornographer. Alle Illegal Aliens Caught Because of President Trump's Leadership.” Noem Pledges in that ad that “If you're here illegally, You will be Fined Nearly $ 1,000 A Day, Imprisoned, and Deported,” as video plays showing her touring cecot-the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador Where Trump Shipped Hundreds of Immigrants with two process. Open Defiance of a Judge's Order.
After encouraging immigrants to self-deport, Noem concludes: “Under President Trump, America Will Be Protected.”
I know to do, dhs has disclosed spending roughly $ 77 Million on the ads, Federal Records Show.
Tony Carrk, Executive Director at the Watchdog Accountable.us, Tells Rolling Stone“President Trump and his Allies in Congress Say they have no Choice But TiCo Rest Away Health Care and Basic Food Aid from Millions of Working People and Seniors. Yet the's Somehow Plenty of Money For More Trump Tax Breaks For His Billionaire Donors and for OverTly Political Taxpayer-Funded Vanity Project to Repair Kristi Noem's Image After Her Many Scandals. Help Everyday Americans Get Ahead. ”
In a budget hearing in May, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Pressed Noem on the way Her Department is uses the public's money, Including Her Spending “$ 200 Million for a Campaign Fawning Over President Trump's supposed accumplishments.”
“You're Just Spending Recklessly and it would see ustefully, Without Authorization,” Blumenthal Said. “That's Against the Law.”
