In response to Republican-backed promotion claims that The Washington Post constitutes unlawful politicking, the Trump campaign lodged a complaint with the FEC.
On Thursday, the Dhillon Law Group filed a complaint on behalf of former President Donald Trump and Sen. J. D. Vance, R-Ohio, that claims the Post is engaged in” a black money corporate strategy” to raise Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Washington Post recently stated it would not support a presidential candidate, a position the Post’s user argued on the grounds that “policy endorsements do nothing to raise the stakes of an poll,” according to the complaint. The news site Semafor published a report on October 30, 2024, titled” Washington Post pays to increase reports critical of Trump as members flee.”
After hundreds of thousands of subscribers were revealed that the editorial board do not embrace Harris, the paper’s determined efforts to conserve readership were chronicled in the Semafor article published on Wednesday.
The article read,” Washington Post pays to increase stories about Trump as subscribers flee.”
Eight days before the election, according to Semafor,” The report violently ramped up its paid marketing campaign, boosting lots of articles related to the vote. The Post paid to show Trump in a different way than the papers about Vice President Kamala Harris, who were largely negative in tone and focused on her innovative online approach, her policy proposals, and her chances of winning the following year.
The Post “boosted multiple critical articles, including about Trump’s campaign rhetoric, his misstatements, his allies ‘ attempts to ‘ energize him as he struggles to adapt to Harris,’ how his campaign damaged Springfield, Ohio, his fixation on the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter, how crowds leave his rallies early, and his questioning of the results of the 2020 election, among other stories”.
The advertising campaign, according to the Trump campaign complaint filed with the FEC, meets the legal qualifications of “in-kind corporate contributions” to Harris for president.
Another FEC complaint was filed on Thursday by the Chicago-based Center for American Rights, which focused on the latest effort to maintain subscribers.
The Washington Post is investing money into social media ads that only benefit one presidential candidate while denigrating another, according to the organization’s president in a press release. The Post needs to come clean and follow the law, noting that that kind of last-minute spending is not protected by the FEC’s press exemption.
Vance addressed the upheaval of The Washington Post in an interview with Joe Rogan that was released on Thursday afternoon in his statement.
According to Vance,” The Washington Post might as well be the Democratic Party’s propaganda outlet.” ” I do n’t care, frankly, whether the editorial page endorses Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. I’m interested in finding out whether the journalists are deceiving themselves about Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
” And frankly”, Vance added,” they’re lying a lot in the negative direction about my running mate, and they’re lying a lot in the positive direction about Kamala Harris”.
