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'You can't do that!' Ex-senator flips out over Trump's 'blatantly' illegal ad scheme

President Donald Trump , faced with intense opposition from his own party, backed off his plan to use taxpayer money stolen from the Department of Homeland Security to fund political public service announcements for his own pet causes. There's just one problem, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday: his new plan to…

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