Alabama Businessman's Ads Aim to Stop Trump — in Mexico and Korea
Source: NBC
Jul 4 2016, 6:40 am ET
Alabama Businessman's Ads Aim to Stop Trump — in Mexico and Korea
by Carrie Dann
There are scores of wealthy political activists spending their money on efforts to keep Donald Trump out of the White House, but one Alabama businessman is going global with his message.
Stan Pate, a millionaire real estate developer from Tuscaloosa, is the man behind a pair of satirical full-page ads that ran last week in two nations with no electoral say in the outcome of the 2016 campaign: Mexico and Korea.
Pate's anti-Trump political action committee, We The People Foundation, sponsored a full-page ad Sunday in Mexican newspaper El National. The ad pictured a fictional invoice from Trump to the Mexican government for "the beautiful, wonderful Trump wall on the Mexican border."
"Past due!" blared the notice, which requested payment of $16 trillion.
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"The other ad, which appeared in the Seoul-based Korea Herald (as well as in its Korean-language publication distributed in the U.S.), offered "NUCLEAR BOMBS FOR SALE!" and promised "magnificent, beautiful, spectacular" bombs available from seller Donald Trump."
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