Gas station secured small business bailout money, then paid for Trump billboards – CNN

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By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN
Photographs by David Walter Banks for CNN

Updated 7:01 AM ET, Fri August 28, 2020

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(CNN)The billboards began popping up along a desert stretch of highway in Arizona and California in early August — plastered with “Make America Great Again!” in large capital letters or an image of President Donald Trump looking up to the sky and giving a big thumbs up.

The company that paid for the billboards, Jones 1 Inc., owns a Shell gas station in Needles, California and received a loan of between $150,000 and $350,000 through the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program.The company that paid for the billboards, Jones 1 Inc., owns a Shell gas station in Needles, California and received a loan of between $150,000 and $350,000 through the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program.

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