{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_wexgxjmsfnnxk336m5lq","title":"Thomas Massie hits out at Trump over taxpayer-funded TV ads: ‘This is completely legal... in banana republics’","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/thomas-massie-hits-out-at-trump-over-taxpayer-funded-tv-ads-this-is-wexgxjmsfn","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_wexgxjmsfnnxk336m5lq","seq":416396,"kind":"article","title":"Thomas Massie hits out at Trump over taxpayer-funded TV ads: ‘This is completely legal... in banana republics’","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-midterms-ads-thomas-massie-b3057502.html","summary":"The Republican Representative and other critics accuse the president of misusing taxpayer dollars to pay for the pre-midterms commercials, which prominently feature the commander-in-chief","published":"2026-09-28T11:07:29Z","seen":"2026-09-28T11:49:58Z","lang":"en","country":"GB","source":{"id":"kite-independent-co-uk-2d4cc8","name":"independent.co.uk","domain":"independent.co.uk","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q11149","name":"The Independent","type":"newspaper","country":"GB","designations":["daily newspaper","online newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-independent-co-uk-2d4cc8","topics":["us politics","americas","world"],"authors":["Joe Sommerlad"],"entities":[{"id":"Q2426031","name":"Thomas Massie","type":"person"},{"id":"Q185003","name":"Jew's harp","type":"person"}],"story":"st_wexgxjmsfnnxk336m5lq","category":"politics","category_p":0.8299999833106995,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.5299999713897705,"political":0.9300000071525574}]}