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    Facts Don’t Support GOP Corruption Claim

    by Brooks Jackson Aug 10, 2018 2 minutes

    A Republican TV ad accuses Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri of profiting from “a corrupt Washington subsidy” — failing to mention that what’s being subsidized is housing for low-income people.

    The ad also fails to note that the very news article on which it is based found no evidence that McCaskill had any part in directing those subsidies to her husband’s affordable-housing business.

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