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WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after President Donald Trump said he would start paying for controversial taxpayer-funded ads with a campaign account, there's no sign he plans to refund the millions of federal dollars already spent on them.
Nearly $12 million worth of ads have already aired, according to AdImpact, as part of the $20 million the Department of Homeland Security tapped for the contract.
But Trump's plan to pay for the ads with MAGA Inc. doesn't mean there's any reimbursement coming, said a White House official who was not authorized to talk publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Trump said the ads were "really good" and "promotion for the country, done by many presidents before." Asked whether he'd repay the funds already spent, he said, "We'll decide."
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Trump for not committing to reimbursement and said he believes the president's plan for covering future costs represents illegal coordination with his super PAC.
"Trump must return this money to the American people and there must be a full investigation into this gross waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars," Schumer told The Associated Press.
The ads, which began airing in late September, glorify Trump and echo his political messaging going into the midterms. One features a clip of Trump talking about the threat of communism and another is a replay of an ad from his last presidential campaign. The fifth ad in the campaign began airing Tuesday, focusing on the Trump administration's capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Republicans and Democrats alike have said the ads aren't an appropriate use of U.S. government money. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, said they shouldn't be paid for with taxpayer dollars.
The Trump administration tapped $20 million from the Department of Homeland Security to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying the president that have drawn widespread criticism. Two top Democratic senators said last week that the money is being drawn from Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill" and was supposed to go toward U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, who chairs the panel that oversees DHS funding, said Tuesday that she had not yet seen Trump's ads, but she said taxpayer money should be used as intended.
"We'll take a look at that," Britt said at the Capitol. "You want to make sure that any use of taxpayer dollars is done judiciously and in accordance with the law."
Legal experts said the ads might even violate federal statutes, including a law against congressionally appropriated money being used for "publicity or propaganda" and another limiting the partisan political activities of government employees.
The White House has defended the ads as public service announcements similar to what past administrations have done to promote policies. Trump on Monday posted on his Truth Social platform calling the ads "positive promotion for our Great U.S.A." while also promising to pay for them with "money I raised for MAGA Inc."
That is Trump's political war chest, which had amassed more than $400 million by the end of July. Trump has begun tapping it to boost Republican candidates across the country in the midterm elections.
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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-hasnt-committed-repaying-federal-192407260.htmlWASHINGTON — The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
Jill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, made a formal whistleblower complaint to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders over the federal response to anti-ICE protest activity around federal buildings, as well as in a residential area, early last year.
Fields asked Congress and the Justice Department’s watchdog to investigate the allegations, her attorneys said in a letter to lawmakers. She says they violated the First Amendment right to free speech and to peaceably assemble.
Fields says Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, told the head of the field office to open an investigation into activities outside the federal building even though, she says, the activities were protected free speech. Separately, she says the White House gave a directive to FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a group of protesters using megaphones during immigration enforcement operations after FBI agents had conducted a check into the conduct and declined to open an investigation.
President Donald Trump had viewed a video of people using megaphones to alert residents about immigration activities, advise them of their legal rights and encourage them not to open their doors unless immigration enforcement agents had signed judicial warrants, according to the letter.
A person whose name is redacted in the complaint told Fields that an investigation would be opened because “the President wants this investigation,” Fields’ whistleblower complaint says.
The protests were staged across Los Angeles after the Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement operation. Fields said the FBI’s Los Angeles office had pulled agents off active cartel cases to satisfy what a supervisor described as “optics” designed to “make a show for the president.” The area would be the scene of major protests later in the year during an immigration surge in cities nationwide.
A Justice Department spokesperson called the whistleblower complaint politically motivated and said violence is not protected by the First Amendment, though the complaint focused on nonviolent protests.
“Under President Trump, the Department of Justice will continue to vigorously uphold the First Amendment rights of all Americans and restore the rule of law,” the spokesperson said. “The DOJ and FBI have a responsibility to investigate any potential violations of federal law, and conspiracies to impede federal law enforcement and assaults on federal officers are against the law.”
The FBI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Justice Department officials have previously said government workers need to follow the Trump administration’s priorities. Last week, Justice Department leaders filed an administrative complaint about federal judges who made remarks to the media about the impact the surge in immigration enforcement had on their courtrooms.
Fields says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings. She says she didn’t know whether any formal investigation was opened because she was excluded once she refused to participate.
Fields consulted with a senior FBI official in charge of privacy and civil liberties matters, who expressed dismay about the investigation and subsequently told Fields she planned to resign, according to the complaint.
Fields, too, resigned from the bureau, after she was informed that she would be removed from heading three programs, a decision she believes constituted retaliation for making protected internal disclosures. The FBI’s actions, according to the letter, “created a chilling effect within the workforce” and “signaled to other employees that raising constitutional or legal concerns could carry professional consequences.”
The conduct “had significant consequences for constitutional rights, and the integrity and effective operation of the FBI,” according to the complaint.
Hundreds of FBI agents and Justice Department attorneys have resigned or been fired since Trump returned to office, particularly those who were involved in investigating him, and former Justice Department employees have expressed concerns that the nation’s top law enforcement agency is doing the bidding of the president.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., told NBC News that Fields’ disclosure is another instance of Trump’s weaponizing the Justice Department to go after his perceived political enemies. Padilla, who himself was forcibly removed from a news conference featuring then-Homeland Security Kristi Noem in June 2025, is the ranking member of the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, citizenship and border safety.
“How many more of these investigations have been opened up because of political pressure coming from the White House, despite the questions and concerns about legality and constitutionality?” Padilla said.
He acknowledged that the Trump administration’s attacks on civil service protections through unilateral firings, as well as the mass firings of internal government watchdogs, had an impact on the legislative branch’s ability to conduct oversight.
“That’s going to be a significant challenge, but it begins with good, honorable professionals being willing to come forward and tell us what’s going on and what’s wrong with what’s going on,” Padilla said. “We’re hoping others may be inspired, as well.”
In a letter he sent to Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche, Padilla wrote that the allegations in the Fields disclosure “raise grave concerns about the rule of law under your leadership, the diversion of resources from ongoing criminal investigations, and the testimony that you provided under oath to Congress.”
He asked for officials to preserve information about the investigation and send any details to his office.
Fields was represented by the nonprofit Government Accountability Project and David Laufman, a former top official in the Justice Department’s National Security Section.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
This article originally appeared on NBC News at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-whistleblower-says-white-house-pushed-unconstitutional-probe-prote-rcna601599Supporters have launched an online campaign in recent weeks aimed at protecting the identity of a woman, identified as "Jane Doe," who alleges in a civil lawsuit that she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in 2024.
Jane Doe's lawyer says that the ex-Cornell student has received "multiple threats" in recent days aimed at exposing her real identity.
"There are people out there trying to track her down," Thomas Giuffra, who represents Jane Doe, told CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. "They said, 'We're gonna shut you up. You're gonna still get hurt by us. You're gonna pull this lawsuit out or we're gonna do something to hurt you even more.'
"The threats, the abuse to protect what's going on, the status quo — these guys are disgusting," Giuffra added.
Among those trying to identify Jane Doe is political commentator Michael Tracey, who publicly asked anyone with information about her identity to contact him and said he would publish her name and identifying details.
The possibility that Jane Doe's true identity might be revealed mobilized many social media users to post "I am Jane Doe" in an effort to protect the identity of the former Cornell University student.
The goal of the movement is to show solidarity with Jane Doe and to make online searches for the woman's identity less useful by returning a mix of conflicting "Jane Doe" identities.
Some TikTok users have been sharing their own experiences with sexual assault and overlaying "I am Jane Doe" text over the video. In a Reddit thread, some users are taking it a step further by deliberately using false identities, including fictional characters or celebrities.
"Jane Doe's name? Nunya. Nunya Business," one user commented.
"Of course I know the identity of Jane Doe, the plaintiff against Cornell and the Cornell 7. Jane Doe is Robert California," another user wrote, referring to the fictional character from The Office.
According to Chirag Shah, a professor at the University of Washington's Information School, the tactic has a name.
"Typically, this is a form of information poisoning," Shah told Yahoo. "People do it for different intents to confuse people, to slow them down or to divert them to other things."
Shah said this strategy is commonly associated with misinformation campaigns, online scams and efforts to manipulate search results. He said this recent strategy stands out because many participants appear to be motivated to protect the plaintiff's identity.
"If the intent here is to protect Jane Doe, which, on the social side of it, is very admirable, on the technical side of it, it's not really possible," Shah said. "But what it ends up doing is creating friction."
He explained that while the friction might discourage casual internet sleuths, it's unlikely to conceal someone's identity from those determined to uncover it.
"Most people don't have the time, motivation or skills to really investigate," Shah said. "But somebody who really wants to do this, they can cut through this noise."
The online movement has sparked discussion about whether flooding the internet with false identities could confuse search engines and AI chatbots. Shah said modern systems are designed to combat attempts by bad actors to spread false information.
"Because this is not a new phenomenon, the existing search engines, including the chatbots, are designed to counteract a lot of these things," Shah said. "Even if it works, it would only work temporarily."
Search engines also increasingly weigh the credibility and reliability of sources rather than simply counting mentions of a claim, he explained. A surge of coordinated posts might temporarily influence results, but Shah said those systems are built to recognize unusual spikes and eventually correct for them.
Volume can still matter in specific ways, he added.
If "I am Jane Doe" posts are associated with one celebrity's name, it will generate more volume and receive more attention, but it could easily be discredited if the celebrity clearly is not the former Cornell student.
"If the intent is to leave people confused, you're better off giving all kinds of [names]," Shah said, comparing it to the "Two Truths and a Lie" game. "If you tell a million lies and one is true, it's much harder to find, and people then just give up.
"So that strategy often works."
Shah said the campaign itself is fascinating to him because it flips a tactic usually used by bad actors into one being used by people who believe they are protecting someone vulnerable.
"All these times I have talked about misinformation and disinformation campaigns, this is the first time it's sort of on this side," Shah said. "If I were ever to look for a good case of a misinformation campaign," he added, "this would be it."
This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/how-fake-online-jane-doe-identities-became-a-tactic-to-protect-the-plaintiff-in-the-cornell-rape-case-173653121.html- Newsfeed provided by Yahoo! News
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