White House airs more taxpayer-funded ads promoting Trump

The federal government has spent at least $1.7 million to air three different TV ads featuring President Donald Trump in recent days, according to an estimate from AdImpact, which tracks and analyzes political ad spending across television, digital and connected TV channels. Critics say the ads could violate federal propaganda law. The White House has defended them as “public service announcements” and drawn comparisons to past examples of administrations that created PSA's to highlight new drug coverage under Medicare and signups for the Affordable Care Act exchanges.   The latest ad features Trump in monochrome, slowly walking down a hallway, describing “the final battle” against "the deep state,” “the globalists,” and “the sick political class that hates our country.” The president is seen glaring directly at the camera as his voiceover vows to “rout the fake news media” and “liberate America from these villains once and for all." The same video was shared by Trump three years...