#Trump buys #clintonkaine.com, turns it into #anti-Clinton #website

If you thought clicking on clintonkaine.com would take you to the official campaign site for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and running-mate Tim Kaine you'd be wrong.

Clinton's opponent in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, has snatched up the clintonkaine.com domain and turned it into an anti-Clinton news portal.

The site is littered with anti-Clinton stories with headlines like "Clinton: Sanders supporters live in parents' basements" and "Hillary's Foundation hid a foreign donation of $2 million."

The domain was originally bought by a man named Jeremy Peter Green in 2011 for US$7.30, but he recently sold it to the Trump campaign for $15,000, USA Today reports.

At the bottom of the website a note states: "Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc."

According to USA Today, despite selling the website to Trump, Green is actually a Clinton supporter who plans to volunteer for her on election day.

"By the time Trump got his hands on the domain, it was getting only 50 visitors a day. Definitely not a $15,000 domain! I'm very happy to have Trump's money," Green said in an email to USA Today. "I bought it because I knew that if Clinton-Kaine ended up being the 2016 ticket, I would be able to use the web traffic, have some fun with (the) domain, and eventually sell it."

Green says he offered the domain to the Clinton campaign first but they said they couldn't afford it. Just looking to make a quick buck, he offered it to the next bidder, which happened to be the Trump campaign.

"It allows us a nice playing field to do some opposition research and let it show," Trump's digital director Brad Parscale told Wired. "We want people to see all the truth, and not the sometimes one-sided truth that we get from the media."