<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…The <span>C</span>onstitution may say this and it may say that, but how on earth does that contradict the <span><u>FACT</u></span> that "<i>President Trump personally instructed his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency</i>"?!</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Congress paid for it John. If they don’t like it, they can cut DHS’s budget.</font></i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Congress authorized <span class="gmail_default" style="">that The</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">D</span>epartment <span class="gmail_default" style="">O</span>f <span class="gmail_default" style="">H</span>omeland <span class="gmail_default" style="">S</span>ecurity<span class="gmail_default" style=""> receive 118.4 billion dollars. Donald declared that a great way to improve Homeland Security would be to use $20 million of that money to air a Trump campaign ad from 2024 informing the American people that "<i>God Made Trump</i>". And you defend that. If Donald then declared that an even greater way to improve Homeland Security would be for Donald to put all $118.4 billion into his own personal wallet then I strongly suspect you would defend that too.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>the Constitution may say this and it may say that…” It does and it does. </font></i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And Donald doesn't give a <span class="gmail_default" style="">hoot</span> in hell what the <span class="gmail_default" style="">C</span>onstitution says, and neither does the Republican controlled Congress.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Note also your comment “…the Constitution may say this and it may say that…” It does and it does. The constitution identifies who is responsible for paying for those ads.</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I asked this question before but you didn't answer it. How on earth does that contradict the <u>FACT</u> that "<i>President Trump personally instructed his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency</i>"?!<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">Do you think that was a wise use of $20 million of the taxpayer's money? Yes or no? I know it will hurt but grit your teeth and just say "no". You'll feel better. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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