Trump filing shows payout to firm with Mad Men-inspired name

The Trump campaign filed its monthly Federal Election Commission campaign disclosure report for May, and included in the almost 1,700 pages were four payments totaling $35,000, made on the campaign’s American Express card to “Draper Sterling” of Londonderry for “web advertising”.

Trump’s latest campaign finance report, which showed a cash-strapped campaign with just $1.3 million on hand at the end of last month, includes the payments to a Londonderry, N.H., firm for “web advertising”.

Adkins is listed as owner of two other New Hampshire businesses – White Mountain Designs LLC, also based out of his Londonderry home, and Grace’s Grantham Cafe in Grantham. The $3,000 payments to Adkins and Holzer on May 11 were for “field consulting”, the reports said. It was created in late March, and the agent is listed as Jon Adkins. “The positive response to our fundraising efforts so far is a further indication that the country does not want yet another corrupt politician like Crooked Hillary”, the Trump campaign said. Both Holzer and Adkins work with the company.

In another unusual twist to the presidential campaign, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign has shelled out $35,000 to a New Hampshire firm that took its name from a popular television series. Neither Adkins or Holzer immediately returned inquires from ThinkProgress.

Holzer said his firm, which registered all of its payments from Trump on April 27, had been hired “when there were new personnel added”.

The company’s name appears once more on the FEC website – in a complaint about the filing practices of a super PAC called Patriots for America.

If you try to reach Patriots for America, the phone numbers lead to the voicemail for a cafe called Grace Grantham, a New Hampshire business registered to Adkins.

One theory, being that this mysterious house is located 15 minutes away from former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski’s house, and this is an audit that falls on his shoulders.

Some have suggested the firing may be linked to the Draper Sterling payments.

ThinkProgress editor Josh Legum was the first to break the news that Trump appears to have forked over more than the average American makes in a year to an ad agency that doesn’t seem to exist outside of an imagined version of the 1960s.

“Part of the agreement with any client is that you sign a non-disclosure agreement, so I won’t discuss any specific work done for any specific client”, said Holzer, who also is a student at Dartmouth Medical School.

“When the dust settles, people are going to be real disappointed to find out how boring this story really is”, Holzer said.