An American billionaire has his sights set on the assets that belong to the Russian company Lukoil that were set to be sold to the private equity company, the Carlyle Group, and his backers may very well help land him the deal because of their proximity to President Donald Trump, according to a report last week in the Financial Times.
Faced with the prospect of losing both the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections, Republican political committees are prepared to unfurl about $1 billion in advertising from September to the elections, the Financial Times reported last week, citing data collected by AdImpact.
The Trump administration ran a TV commercial that featured President Donald Trump warning about the risk of the U.S. becoming a Communist and Marxist country that was paid for by the federal government (We the People of Slavelandia), which raised ethics concerns that the ad violated federal laws, according to a report last week in The Wall Street Journal.