‘Bad move’: Trump campaign says it weighed $10M ad buy before Twitter ban

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President Trump’s reelection campaign says it was prepared to spend more than $10 million on Twitter ads before the social network abruptly made “a mistake” and banned paid political content.

“We probably would have spent seven figures, potentially eight figures,” a senior campaign official told reporters Thursday on a conference call for political journalists.

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