Donald Trump Campaign Appears to Be Paying a Fictional Ad Agency

[jzodda]

"In their most recent FEC filing, the Donald Trump campaign revealed that they paid $35,000 to an ad agency that, by all appearances, doesn’t actually exist.

ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum caught the odd detail when poring over Trump’s financial statements."

http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/donald-trump-campaign-appears-to-be-paying-a-fictional-ad-agency/


Interesting and goes to show how incompetent his entire campaign is being run.

[randr]

1. Follow the money

No matter where it leads or who it points to

[leftofcool]

2. Trump Advertising?

[sufrommich]

3. "Draper Sterling"

For those of you who didn't watch Mad Men,they are two of the main characters,Don Draper and Roger Sterling.

[randome]

4. Wow. Maybe it's a coded cry for help from the poor human trapped by that alien hair thing.

It isn't Trump's fault! We need to mount a rescue mission!

[sufrommich]

6. More likely someone in the campaign skimming money.

But I can't imagine why they would believe no one would pick up on an obvious nod to Mad Men,it's laughable.

[cyberpunk]

10. I'd have missed that nod; but only bc I have never seen Mad Men. nt

[MineralMan]

5. I searched and found no such company doing advertising.

Sounds like some money moving for other purposes to me.

[sufrommich]

7. I found them:

[MineralMan]

8. Yah, a cancelled TV show.

What's funny is the open sarcasm of paying money to a clearly fictional entity.

Now, it's possible that someone started an internet advertising business of that name, but Google can't seem to find it, and Google is very good at finding stuff on the internet.

Sounds completely bogus.

[thesquanderer]

12. Read the rest of the story at the link. It gets better. (n/t)

[bigtree]

9. or corrupt

...campaign payments to fictitious ad agency?

That's a hell of a scoop. I've always had the impression Trump was a helplessly compulsive liar and a cheat. It would stand to reason he'd reflexively snub the law like he's above it all. If not him, anyone who would closely associate themselves with any of his enterprises has to be suspect as well.

[Scientific]

11. That money is in some Republican pocket

Doubt it has anything to do with incompetence. Much more likely Republican-style graft.

[auntpurl]

13. LOL! Do you remember the story about Trump pretending to be his own publicist?

(starts at about 2:00, although the whole thing is very worth watching)

Just, unbelievable. I've never seen anything like the Cheeto Jesus campaign.

[uponit7771]

14. The company "residence" is 15 min away from Lewendowski's house !! lol... these guys are crooks

[jzodda]

15. http://drapersterling.com/

http://drapersterling.com/

LOL good one

[herding cats]

16. Brilliant!