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Proof: Trump ignites outrage from political world by ‘stealing’ from taxpayers to fund ad campaign: ‘Completely illegal’

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T17:10:52Z","headline":"Trump ignites outrage from political world by ‘stealing’ from taxpayers to fund ad campaign: ‘Completely illegal’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ads-taxpayer-money-b3057770.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

5b59fe975075d75b3f6bd68e4401a2fbc59d5c9e7bbedf42509296361b560e86

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969030, mined 2026-09-28 18:14 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 17:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 17:12 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5b59fe975075.json prints 5b59fe975075d75b3f6bd68e4401a2fbc59d5c9e7bbedf42509296361b560e86. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5b59fe975075.json and headline-5b59fe975075.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-5b59fe975075.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, 1 min after it was first seen.