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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    PAC puts on Trump dinner contest, misleads donors and raises $1 million

    The website for the American Horizons PAC – dinnerwithtrump.org – looks just like Donald Trump’s campaign website. The PAC, which is run by a Maryland man named Ian Hawes , promised donors a chance to win dinner with Trump, and it raised $1.1 million from over 20,000 Trump supporters.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 29, 2016 • 1 min read

    The website for the American Horizons PAC – dinnerwithtrump.org – looks just like Donald Trump’s campaign website. The PAC, which is run by a Maryland man named Ian Hawes, promised donors a chance to win dinner with Trump, and it raised $1.1 million from over 20,000 Trump supporters. American Horizons, however, has no connection to Trump or his campaign. Are Hawes’ actions illegal?

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    The down-ticket Trump effect
    1. 0:30The down-ticket Trump effect
    2. 8:37PAC puts on Trump dinner contest, misleads donors and raises $1 millionYou’re reading this
    3. 16:32Remembering the life and music of Mexican superstar Juan Gabriel
    4. 25:52How the 40 trillion microbes in and on us shape our lives
    5. 40:35What’s worth DVR-ing this Fall?
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