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A conservative dark-money group behind ads criticizing President Donald Trump’s revamped North American free-trade deal is run in part by a lobbyist for leading German car manufacturer BMW, which is expected to take a hit from the deal.
It’s the same lobbyist, it turns out, who just launched a separate group promoting the deal.