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Proof: US midterms: Is Trump campaigning at taxpayers' expense?

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d7e8bd09848ae9c3320829374abb5e7258ed496a55c1d408450a0149c5db9a73

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970388, mined 2026-10-07 20:35 UTC.

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• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 20:28 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d7e8bd09848a.json prints d7e8bd09848ae9c3320829374abb5e7258ed496a55c1d408450a0149c5db9a73. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-d7e8bd09848a.json and headline-d7e8bd09848a.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-d7e8bd09848a.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.

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