A billboard in downtown Phoenix depicting President Trump as a Nazi was funded with taxpayer dollars according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.
Via Judicial Watch:
The massive billboard caused a ruckus when it was unveiled in downtown Phoenix, Arizona in mid-March because it features a menacing portrait of Trump surrounded by mushroom clouds—in the shape of laughing clowns—and swastikas modified as dollar signs. A pin of a Russian flag appears on the president’s lapel.
The huge display towers over Grand Avenue and Taylor Street in downtown Phoenix and will remain there throughout Trump’s presidency, according to the local art gallery that claims to own it and conveniently omits that public money is involved. A multitude of local and national media outlets covered the controversy surrounding the artist that created it and the contentious image it portrays, but all have failed to uncover the important fact that taxpayer dollars are behind it.
Shortly after the billboard was erected Judicial Watch filed a public records request with the city of Phoenix to obtain details related to public monies connected to organizations and organizers of the sign. This week Judicial Watch received the documents that show the city of Phoenix has awarded Moore, the Trump Nazi billboard owner and a prominent figure in the local art community, thousands of dollars in grants for a program she runs called Grand Avenue Arts & Preservation (GAP), which encompasses the Art Detour event where the Nazi billboard made its debut.
Moore and her various publicly-funded art enterprises received $3,500 from the city of Phoenix in July 2016, the records obtained by Judicial Watch show, which encompasses the March 2017 Art Detour event that kicked off with the Trump Nazi billboard. In August 2016 Artlink, founded by Moore, was awarded $1,800 for the 2017 Art Detour event, according to the records.
The taxpayers of Phoenix must gather together and demand this sign be removed. How can taxpayer dollars be used to fund something like this? Imagine the outrage if taxpayer money funded a sign depicting Obama as a Muslim Brotherhood mole?
Phoenix Trump Nazi Billboard Funded with Taxpayer Dollars https://t.co/IHPRJr2sK0 pic.twitter.com/i5o72AuKCJ
— Judicial Watch 🔎 (@JudicialWatch) May 11, 2017
