It might even be that he paid for three issues and they ran it for three issues and that was it, or it might've been a miscommunication about which specific issues it was supposed to run in. Either Trane or the Journal might've goofed up, or both. Or Trane's press release might be misleading (based on what we've seen from him in the recent past, a real possibility).

Remember when Joe Lieberman accused the Ned Lamont campaign of taking down his web site on election day, and it turned out the Lieberman campaign was using very cheap web hosting that simply couldn't handle the election day volume? Sometimes when a campaign goofs up, they accuse first and noticed what they've done a little later. Let's wait a bit and see what this one turns out to be.