MAGA Candidate Bought Cowboy Drag For Senate Ad

The Daily Beast reports:

Jeff Gunter’s opening video depicts him stepping into a Ford F-150 pickup truck—cowboy boots and all—admiring the bucolic western landscape in a burgundy button-down as he talks about his credentials.

It’s not only that Gunter is a wealthy dermatologist and megadonor to Donald Trump, serving as the former president’s controversial ambassador to Iceland; it’s that he used $800 in campaign cash to obtain his western threads at a chain retailer.

According to Gunter’s filings with the Federal Election Commission, his campaign spent $796.38 at Boot Barn—the self-proclaimed largest workwear retailer in the country—which sells an identical burgundy top for $29.99 and a Nevada belt buckle for $45.

Read the full article. Gunter is running to unseat Democratic incumbent Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen.

During his time as ambassador to Iceland, which he had never before visited, Gunter earned regular headlines for abusing staff, demanding “door-to-door armored car service,” and requesting special permission to carry a firearm due his paranoia about the deep state out to get him. In Iceland. Oh, and he summarily fired an Icelandic-speaking underling upon their first meeting because he “didn’t like his look.” Per Wikipedia, in 2021, the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a report indicating that Gunter had created a “‘threatening and intimidating environment'” at the embassy.

EXCLUSIVE | In his first campaign video, Jeff Gunter was decked out in western gear head to toe. Records show he’d just purchased them at a chain retailer.https://t.co/8H5LPfwvh6

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 25, 2024