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Proof: Trump says his super PAC will pay for controversial promotional ad campaign

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T00:02:50Z","headline":"Trump says his super PAC will pay for controversial promotional ad campaign","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcnews","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-super-pac-pay-controversial-promotional-ad-campaign/story?id=137019187","v":1}

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8b5f1d9fe1932db7660af83f17def680af999e5cdc49f87afacf05957004cf6b

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970104, mined 2026-10-06 00:30 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 00:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 00:12 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-8b5f1d9fe193.json prints 8b5f1d9fe1932db7660af83f17def680af999e5cdc49f87afacf05957004cf6b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-8b5f1d9fe193.json and headline-8b5f1d9fe193.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-8b5f1d9fe193.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.