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(WASHINGTON) Donald Trump has always liked to put his name on things in big letters on towers, hotels, golf resorts even steaks. As president, his black-marker signature was outsize and famously distinctive.
So, when questions were raised about whether he would want his name on millions of stimulus checks sent to Americans last year, it not only seemed plausible, it also unleashed a firestorm of criticism from Democrats.
Now, internal emails obtained by ABC News give an inside look at the scramble to add Trump’s name just days before payments started going out in the middle of a presidential election year.
An inside look at how Donald Trump s name came to appear on stimulus checks
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Donald Trump has always liked to put his name on things in big letters on towers, hotels, golf resorts even steaks. As president, his black-marker signature was outsize and famously distinctive.
So, when questions were raised about whether he would want his name on millions of stimulus checks sent to Americans last year, it not only seemed plausible, it also unleashed a firestorm of criticism from Democrats.
Now, internal emails obtained by ABC News give an inside look at the scramble to add Trump s name just days before payments started going out in the middle of a presidential election year.