firsttruck
Well-known member
Nothing stopped him from running the ads before he ran for office. You can run ads for anything with you own money. Honestly, the campaign made no sense other than he wanted to collect donations, but you could be a small non-profit easily and he'd already paid to create one.
-Crissa
I don't think is just issue of running ads.
I think by being a political candidate he can
1. Make slanderous claims as a politician and be more difficult to sue or at least having little chance of losing suit to pay damages.
2. Get more free coverage by the press as news article instead of being an ad.
People pay a little more attention to news stories than they do ads.
3. More interviews by media.
4. Easier to get donations to fund his slanderous claims. If candidate did well enough might actual get funds from government.
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