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Proof: Trump says he'll start paying for ads after pushback over taxpayer funding

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T23:12:04Z","headline":"Trump says he'll start paying for ads after pushback over taxpayer funding","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"cbsnews","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-super-pac-maga-inc-taxpayer-funded-ads/","v":1}

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SHA-256

bde3fc74875ba96766f9f5e142ac4a225b89e50c1188a166df0a798f6c949930

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970096, mined 2026-10-05 23:40 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 23:18 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 23:18 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-bde3fc74875b.json prints bde3fc74875ba96766f9f5e142ac4a225b89e50c1188a166df0a798f6c949930. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-bde3fc74875b.json and headline-bde3fc74875b.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-bde3fc74875b.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, 5 min after it was first seen.