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Fixin’ to Cut the Legs Out From Under ActBlue – HotAir

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I read the saddest little letter today, almost as if Charles Dickens had come back to life, and conjured up another orphan with an outstretched bowl, begging for one more, tiny dollop of a spoonful.





PLEASE, SIR – MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?

It arrived in Tony Seruga’s inbox with the subject line ‘Not Great!’

You all simply must read it, too.

And it came from the DNC.

It looks like times are tough, and the revenue stream is starting to dry up.

Now, if you squint at the bottom, just above the red ‘donate’ boxes, you’ll see some script that says:

If you’ve shared your info with ActBlue, we’ll process your contribution instantly.

Anything to make it easier for Democrat patronage to flourish, and ActBlue has been the organ through which ever so much supposedly ‘donated’ largesse has flowed.

I hope whoever was processing the donations received in answer to the pathetic plea had flying fingers of flames to get the information entered correctly. Time is of the essence. 

ActBlue’s money laundering is about to hit a rough patch – a Trump bump, if you will – that could make squirreling away more questionably obtained funds difficult if not impossible.

The panic alarms are going off all through the media this afternoon.

MAYDAY MAYDAY

In a shot at ActBlue, the left’s major online donation platform, President Donald Trump plans to sign a presidential memorandum on Thursday that he will cast as cracking down on foreign contributions in American elections, according to a person familiar with the policy and granted anonymity to discuss not-yet-public details.

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office is expected to be involved in the effort, the person said. The order is expected to specifically target ActBlue. Republicans have long claimed the platform could be exploited by foreign actors, while Democrats have warned the action is an example of Trump baselessly targeting political opponents.

After this article was published, POLITICO obtained a fact sheet on the memo confirming the details. The memo will direct Bondi to “investigate and take appropriate action concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make ‘straw’ or ‘dummy’ contributions and to make foreign contributions to U.S. political candidates and committees, all of which break the law” and report results to the president and his general counsel, according to the fact sheet.

Democrats had been bracing in recent days for potential action from the White House against the platform, casting it as an unwarranted attack on their fundraising efforts. In an email to Democrats on Wednesday referring to a potential coming action from the White House targeting the platform, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones wrote, “Nothing will deter or interrupt ActBlue’s mission and work to enable millions of Americans to participate in our democracy. There is an ongoing and persistent effort to weaken the confidence of the American people in what’s possible. This is the next version of ‘the big lie.’”





Rumor has it there is some scrambling going on to, like, ‘wipe with a cloth‘ so to speak.

Word out of ActBlue HQ was mum but defiant in an email to supporters. And they made sure to use the Democrats’ favorite code-word, ‘democracy.’

…ActBlue did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But in a letter to Democratic supporters on Wednesday obtained by CNN, the platform’s president and CEO Regina Wallace-Jones said the organization had been anticipating a move of this kind from Trump.

“Nothing will deter or interrupt ActBlue’s mission and work to enable millions of Americans to participate in our democracy,” Wallace-Jones wrote. “There is an ongoing and persistent effort to weaken the confidence of the American people in what’s possible.”

She noted that the platform had raised more than $400 million during the three months of this year – setting a new record for a single fundraising quarter.

Posturing aside, there have long been questions about the Left’s premier fundraising apparatus and their havey-cavey accounting methods. 

And their well-documented habit of using real people as fictitious donors in different parts of the country. Up to now, it’s been a pretty successful, clandestine effort to cover dumping copious amounts of money disguised as small donations into campaigns and causes that need an infusion of cash while sidestepping the legal donation limits.





They can take a massive and illicit, say, Soros-type money dump, chop it into tiny, phony-name $40, $50, or whatever small-dollar ‘donations’ and spread the wealth with no one the wiser.

Or they used to be able to do so and with relative impunity.

But the jig’s about up. There are too many sharp eyes and too many channels of communication now open to people looking into the Left’s funding apparatus for them to hide much of their graft anymore.

…In it, ActBlue states they need to “move away from the dominance of small-dollar donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate.” 

That made no sense to me. By definition, small-dollar donors are grassroots supporters or the “broader electorate.” 

To me, that wording strongly suggests they knew the true source of those small-dollar donations, and it wasn’t ordinary voters.





As Elon Musk has said, it appears the organization is guilty of widespread identity theft and, unsurprisingly enough, the biggest victims have been senior citizens. Those folks are often less internet-savvy, sometimes answer questions over the phone they shouldn’t, especially if they’re lonely and a friendly voice is available, and sometimes send donations off indiscriminately.

James O’Keefe has been on ActBlue for a while and has documented many cases.

The New York Times has its Grey Lady nose in a snit, calling ActBlue a ‘perceived enemy’ that Trump is once again hounding without cause.

…President Trump on Thursday plans to direct the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the fund-raising platform that powers virtually every Democratic candidate and cause, according to a person briefed on the preparations. The move steps up Republicans’ effort to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure.

It will be the third time in three weeks that Mr. Trump has directed the government to target a perceived political enemy, a drastic expansion of his use of his powers to try to damage domestic opponents.

After all the above-board, completely gentlemanly behavior of Democrats and their progressive toadies towards Trump, the Times is furious that Trump seems to still harbor some sort of unseemly grudge. 





It’s just unsporting, it is – all unproven, scurrilous rumors to boot.

WHAT ABOUT DEMOCRACY?!

…Mr. Trump’s impending action represents a threat to one of the key financial cogs of the left, potentially hindering Democrats’ ability to compete in elections. It is likely to please elements of his base, for whom ActBlue has become a top target. Congressional Republicans have separately been investigating what they claim are the platform’s insufficient security provisions.

…The Republican scrutiny of ActBlue has focused on claims — thus far unsubstantiated — that it allows straw and foreign donations. Federal election law bars straw donations, and it prohibits foreign citizens without permanent residency from donating directly to federal political candidates or political action committees.

A Justice Department investigation into ActBlue is likely to create vulnerabilities for the entire Democratic fund-raising apparatus. Party consultants have relied on ActBlue to bring in donations. Candidates, committees for federal and state legislative chambers, and liberal caucuses use the platform as their primary mechanism to process donations.

And ERMAGERD!!!

What if the Justice Department wants to look at candidates and their fundraising records?!

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE?!

No one is above the la…oh. Hold that.

Send money quick.

…There is great fear across the Democratic Party that any of the entities that have used ActBlue could soon find themselves enmeshed in an investigation into foreign contributions from a hostile Justice Department with direction from Mr. Trump.

…“Please, while we still can, make a donation to my campaign’s emergency fund through ActBlue,” Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona wrote to supporters on Thursday afternoon. “Any amount at all. We’ve got to be ready for any outcome, and we’ve got to start preparing now.”





This is so awesome.

I just love the smell of panic in the afternoon.







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