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Posted on 04/24/2025 7:28:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
In a shot at ActBlue, the left’s major online donation platform, President Donald Trump plans to sign a presidential memorandum on Thursday 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 crackdown, the person said, though further details about the mechanism she will use were not immediately available. The order is expected to specifically target ActBlue, which Republicans have long claimed could be exploited by foreign actors.
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.’”
On Thursday, ActBlue told POLITICO, “ActBlue plays a vital role in enabling all Americans to participate in our democracy and the organization strictly abides by all federal and state laws governing its activities. We will always stand steadfast in defending the rights of all Americans to participate in our democracy and ActBlue will continue its mission undeterred and uninterrupted, providing a safe, secure fundraising platform for the millions of grassroots donors who rely on us.”
Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), chair of the House Committee on Administration, sent a letter to ActBlue in October asking for documents and information about how the platform verifies donors, suggesting that it does not have adequate protections to prevent foreign donations.
Federal law prohibits any contributions, donations, expenditures or disbursements either directly or indirectly from foreign nationals and governments in any U.S. election, whether federal, state or local.
In December, Steil announced the documents turned over by ActBlue showed that the company had implemented new policies to “automatically reject donations that use foreign prepaid/gift cards, domestic gift cards, are from high-risk/sanctioned countries, and have the highest level of risk as determined.” At the time, Steil called it a “positive step forward” but said there “is still more work to be done.”
In a December press release concerning the issue, ActBlue said that its “robust security program and strict fraud prevention measures help us rigorously protect donors’ information, root out potentially unlawful foreign contributions, protect donors from financial fraud, and flag potentially unlawful or fraudulent activity.”
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Didn’t all the exec and lawyers there quite already?
Unless people go to prison for it, they’ll just implement their grift some other way.
Trump moves to block foreign money in elections and Politicos first thought is “he’s attacking ActBlue”
Hmmmm…
14,903,974 Democratic donors have saved their payment information with us via an ActBlue Express account.
They suddenly got the urge to relocate to a tropical island in the Pacific...................
They suddenly got the urge to relocate to a tropical island in the Pacific.....
Hopefully just before renewed testing at Bikini.
Blocked by a judge in 3…2…
We don’t need legislation.
We need enforcement.
Where are the arrests, Blondi?
Yes there are! But they are not enforced, for some odd reason.................
FEC investigates Rep Jasmine Crockett
over ActBlue campaign donations
Post Millennial ^ | April 11, 2025 | Thomas Stevenson
fr Posted on 04/11/2025 10:58:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
The FEC has opened an investigation into Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Dem-TX) over donations to her campaign that were made through ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising platform that has recently come under scrutiny for suspicious donation activity. A complaint to the FEC was filed by conservative advocacy group the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation in March against Crockett with respect to her fundraising activity on ActBlue as well as alleged voter intimidation, according to the Daily Signal.
On April 2, the group was notified by the FEC that the agency would be looking into the matter with respect to Crockett. “The respondents will be notified of this complaint within five business days,” FEC assistant general counsel for complaints examination and legal administration Wanda D Brown told the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation in a letter. “You will be notified as soon as the FEC takes final action on your client’s complaint. Should you receive any additional information in this matter, please forward it to the Office of the General Counsel.”
The outlet reported that the letter was sent to Dan Becker, who is an attorney for the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation. Backer told The Daily Signal, “The FEC opened an investigation. There is a process, but they are investigating.” A donor was reported to have given 53 separate donations to Crockett’s campaign that totaled $595 and were made through the ActBlue donations portal. The donations were tied to a 73-year-old Texas resident named Randy Best, however, Best’s wife has said that she did not know anything about the donations. Sholdon Daniels, who plans on running against Crockett in the 2026 midterms, posted a video about the allegation from Best’s wife.
🤷🏽♂️ https://t.co/x4Gt5d5uL2— Sholdon Daniels For Congress (@SholdonDaniels) March 12, 2025
The complaint argues that it is possible that other donations may be similar in pattern to the 53 repeated donations. “Rep. Crockett, through her principal campaign committee Respondent Jasmine for US, has received thousands of other donations through ActBlue totaling over $870,000,” the FEC complaint stated. “It is unclear how many of these are similarly fraudulent transactions, made in the name of unsuspecting innocent people who did not actually provide the funds.”
ActBlue has recently come under scrutiny because of allegedly fraudulent donations that have been made under the names of older Americans.
Act Blue goes to prison. That is all I want to see.
Without Congress, all of this is temporary depending on elections. The administration is shuffling papers and making strong statements.
“Where are the arrests, Blondi?”
Here is a JusttheNews article, for those that don’t want to go to Politico:
(Notice it “raised concerns with Congress” who proceeded to do absolutely nothing.)
“Trump signs presidential memo targeting ActBlue foreign donation, fraud allegations”
“The documents also show the platform began monitoring potential fraudulent donations from several foreign sources, including hundreds of donations from Brazil, Colombia, India, Iraq, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia, and other countries.
These fraudulent donations raised concerns among Members of Congress investigating ActBlue that the platform may have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which states persons who “knowingly accept a contribution made by one person in the name of another person’ may face criminal liability.” “
Forensic audit Amalgamated Bank
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