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Millions of donations from ‘unemployed’ to liberal causes spark accusations of foreign influence
Washington Examiner ^ | September 13, 2020 | Emma Colton

Posted on 09/14/2020 3:26:19 PM PDT by Twotone

Almost half of the donations received by ActBlue, a massive liberal fundraising platform, in 2019 were from “unemployed” donors.

“Our biggest concern is foreign money. Do you really believe that half of the people who are giving money through ActBlue don’t have a job?” John Pudner, the president of Take Back Action Fund, which conducted the research, told the Washington Times. “To me, that just seems absurd.”

The conservative nonprofit analyzed data from the Federal Elections Commission and found that 48.4% of donations last year were from the unemployed, Fox News reported.

"After downloading hundreds of millions of [dollars in] donations to the Take Back Action Fund servers, we were shocked to see that almost half of the donations to ActBlue in 2019 claimed to be unemployed individuals," Pudner said. "The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations, but more than 4.7 million donations came from people who claimed they did not have an employer. Those 4.7 million donations totaled $346 million ActBlue raised and sent to liberal causes."

The data also found that in 2020, there was an uptick of "unemployed" donations to ActBlue to the tune of 51%.

"It is hard to believe that at a time when the U.S. unemployment rate was less than 4%, that unemployed people had $346 million to send to ActBlue for liberal causes," Pudner said. He added that "4.7 million donations from people without a job ... raised serious concerns."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; dnc; donations; foreigninfluence

1 posted on 09/14/2020 3:26:19 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

China!


2 posted on 09/14/2020 3:29:02 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Twotone

The Kenyan from Indonesia got millions in overseas donations.

It was OK because we was a citizen of the world...../s


3 posted on 09/14/2020 3:29:30 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Twotone

If it is criminal, DemocRATs are doing it.


4 posted on 09/14/2020 3:32:32 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Twotone

Foreign mercenaries.


5 posted on 09/14/2020 3:34:29 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Twotone

The average American would be shocked to see how much, and from whom, the radical American left takes in “influence and support money” from. Just start with the Clinton Foundation, drift to Obama, and expand into the Congress from there....it just gets more informative...


6 posted on 09/14/2020 3:34:39 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Twotone

Don’t expect BlahBlahBarr and the DOJ to lift a finger against such likely corruption.


7 posted on 09/14/2020 3:37:30 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Twotone

Remember the Buddhist nuns that contributed $2k each for Gore and were laundering foreign money?
https://prospect.org/features/al-gore-temple-doom/


8 posted on 09/14/2020 3:41:34 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Twotone

They’re Democraps, so it’s okay!


9 posted on 09/14/2020 3:57:44 PM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: SpaceBar

That might be why they hacked a list of all government employees names a few years ago.

How many times is “Sum Ting Wong” listed as a donator?


10 posted on 09/14/2020 4:10:18 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: EagleUSA

And the Bidens. Just listened to Peter Schweizer on John Solomon’s podcast last week. Amazing the money Hunter brought in while Joe was VP and there were some National security concerns that were rubber stamped by the obama administration.

“If the Trump family did this...”


11 posted on 09/14/2020 4:14:42 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: Twotone

Let’s say I’m a foreign oligarch.
I want to influence the US elections in favor of my political ally.
I have told him that I will arrange $10MM to come into his campaign.
As a foreign citizen, I cannot give such money directly to a campaign or campaign-associated PAC.
I have my staff go to the city center and fan out to all the American stores.
They they will each purchase $1000 in cash “gift” cards of $50 denomination.
These cards are then shipped to party affiliates in the US who hand them out to people on the street.
They tell the unemployed and homeless to withdraw $40 in cash and give them back the card.
The remaining cash on the card then goes to the campaign, care-of the homeless/unemployed.
Voila!


12 posted on 09/14/2020 4:27:27 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel ( Scatology is serendipitous.)
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To: Seruzawa

Yep- sending in their coronavirus relief payments to organizations that are trying to actively kill us.


13 posted on 09/14/2020 4:35:13 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SpaceBar

China, Soros, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Windsor, DuPont..... every ultra wealthy Trump hater n the world!


14 posted on 09/14/2020 4:42:34 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Twotone

Can 10-12 yr olds held as Child Slave Labor in China be Legally employed for the purpose of donating to a Presidential Election in the United States???


15 posted on 09/14/2020 5:03:59 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Lurkinanloomin; All

That is true. NO ONE CARED because, of course, Obama said they were all UNDER $200/donation! THIS HAS TO STOP!!

Either we are a country of LAWS or we are a country of ANARCHY. The voters will choose.......and all that ballot harvesting will cause a huge problem for those who are trying to determine how many are LEGAL VOTES!!


16 posted on 09/14/2020 5:06:14 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: Twotone

More cheating leftist democrats and no one will go after ActBlue.

JoMa


17 posted on 09/14/2020 5:25:05 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Twotone

Just like Obama’s website ‘forgetting’ to add the security features for the credit card processing system on his websites.


18 posted on 09/14/2020 6:07:19 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: Twotone; All

Gosh - Dems get jobless folks to donate and FR can’t get a lot of FReeloaders to donate...there’s a couple things wrong with this picture...

Our side is also supposed to have a conscience - if that’s so, maybe seeing this link will produce an effect:...

https://freerepublic.com/donate/


19 posted on 09/15/2020 3:35:02 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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