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CHICAGO — As the Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday, Republican nominee Donald Trump — not Democratic nominee Kamala Harris — arguably has the most permanent and grandiose billboard in town.

It’s not a traditional billboard suspended alongside the highway, although there are plenty of those surrounding the city with decidedly convention-focused messages.

Rather, it’s the massive letters spelling out TRUMP across the 98-story reflective skyscraper, Trump International Hotel and Tower....

MILWAUKEE — When visitors land at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, they are deluged by huge billboards for the Heritage Foundation, the Washington, D.C.-based conservative group behind the highly contentious Project 2025 "presidential transition" plan.

But the political debate over presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and his policies immediately spill out on the roads and highways into the downtown Milwaukee, the site of the Republican National Convention.

Massive pro- and anti-Trump digital signs were everywhere, sponsored by a motley crew of political actors, from the Republican National Committee and a political action committee backed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to ones sponsored by a conservative Florida personal injury attorney and a liberal food spice company....

Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder made between $1 million and $5 million from The Epoch Times, according to a new financial disclosure submitted three months past a federal deadline.

The Epoch Times — accused by the New York Times of being “a leading purveyor of right-wing misinformation” — spent heavily on Facebook ads for Donald Trump in 2020 and was later banned from the platform for violating political transparency rules. The Epoch Times is associated with the Chinese religious movement Falun Gong.

Elder’s filing, covering the past year and first reported by Raw Story on Monday, characterized his earnings from The Epoch Times as “salary.” ...