The Kamala Harris campaign has collected over a billion dollars in fundraising, with a significant portion coming through the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue. But what if much of that cash was delivered by foreign countries such as Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela?
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House Republicans want to know, and on Wednesday, they subpoenaed the outfit and demanded documents and more information:
Committee on House Administration Chair Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) on Wednesday issued a subpoena to ActBlue, a popular Democratic fundraising platform that has collected record donations for the Harris campaign.
The subpoena concerns the platform’s potential use to influence U.S. elections through illicit money laundering, according to a press release.
Steil gave the platform until November 6 to respond. Obviously, this will not affect the current election, but there will be future votes we need to protect.
“We cannot allow foreign actors to influence our elections through campaign financing. The Committee’s investigation uncovered that foreign actors might be taking advantage of ActBlue’s inadequate security protocols,” Steil said in the release.
“To ensure that foreign money is not being laundered through ActBlue, we are requesting a series of documents and communications related to their donor security and verification policies. Preventing foreign interference in U.S. elections has been my top priority as Chairman and this next step in our investigation is crucial to achieving that goal,” he added.
Democrat donor platform ActBlue may have ILLEGALLY funneled donations from China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and other countries in the names of Americans—without their consent.
The @HouseAdmin Committee is working to get the American people answers they DESERVE. https://t.co/vGwfLhSRjC
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) October 29, 2024
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Former House speaker New Gingrich weighed in with an article in the New York Sun:
So, the next ad you see for Ms. Harris may have been bought with Iranian, Chinese, or drug cartel money…
It should not surprise us that Iran, China, Russia, and transnational crime syndicates in South and Central America could be willing to exploit the weaknesses of the American political fundraising system.
Each has a big interest in a Harris presidency. They know that Ms. Harris would be much softer and easier to work around than President Trump.
ActBlue collects small-dollar donations, but they add up—they’ve collected over $1.5 billion from about 7 million donors for Democrats over the course of 19,000 campaigns. Harris raked in over $200 million in the first few days of her campaign alone.
Gingrich warns that if they’re skirting the law, it’s a real danger to the system:
ActBlue owes it to every American to open its books and help us find out which donations were fraudulent. The Harris campaign and the other campaigns would then have the obligation to pay back the illegal donations. This is potentially a genuine crisis of the American system of self-government.
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Recently, James O’Keefe posted that someone sent him evidence that ActBlue was allegedly accepting and processing fraudulent contributions.
We tested the theory, and sure enough, ActBlue is accepting and processing fake donations. With all fake information, including a fake name… pic.twitter.com/RY8eEFlLvb
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) October 29, 2024
With all fake information, including a fake name and credit card, ActBlue accepted a fake contribution of $2,000. My source then tested the same theory with WinRed, and the fake donation was rejected.
