(The president’s son Donald Trump Jr. posted the same video on Twitter and was logged off his account for 12 hours in response for violating the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy, according to a company spokesman, who said the pause was not a suspension. He is also effectively ceding the debate over managing and rebuilding from the pandemic to Mr. Biden, who has been gradually rolling out a series of public health and economic aid plans more or less unchallenged by the president. Watchdog group accuses Trump campaign of hiding almost $170 million in spending. “This secrecy could also disguise other campaign finance violations, but we don’t know, because the campaign isn’t disclosing these routed payments.”The complaint cites several companies that do business with the Trump campaign and its shared committees with the Republican National Committee, which do not appear on F.E.C. For instance, Federal Communications Commission records show that the media-buying firm Harris Sikes Media has executed some of Mr. Trump’s ad purchases, but the campaign has reported no payments to that firm in 2019 and 2020, the complaint says.

Source: New York Times July 28, 2020 11:42 UTC