MAGA GOP candidate admits illegally smuggling ritzy Aston Martin into the U.S.
Raw StoryA few years back, a controversial MAGA-backed senatorial candidate Bernie Moreno bragged about smuggling into the U.S. a mint cherry-red 2015 Aston Martin Vulcan worth $2.3 million as "car parts" and shirking Clean Air Act’s emissions standards. Mother Jones recently profiled Moreno, the GOP hopeful challenging Ohio incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in the November general election, and noted that the luxury wheels would have required him to secure an exemption by the EPA. The publication detailed that the British automaker shipped only nine within a short window of March 2015 and February 2017 and only on the condition that they be driven “solely for competition.” The multimillionaire who, Mother Jones found padded his campaign coffers with $4.5 million of his personal money, also reportedly proceeded to secure a three-car police escort to shepherd him around the streets of a Cleveland suburb to show off his largess of car dealerships in the state. In 2016, the outlet pointed out that Moreno didn't filter himself, calling former President Donald Trump a “maniac.” “There’s no scenario in which I would support Trump,” he publicly stated at the time.
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