Fundraising Platform ActBlue Laundered Foreign Money to Dems
Nov 2, 2024 19:49:25 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Nov 2, 2024 19:49:25 GMT -5
Speaker Johnson: Fundraising Platform ActBlue Laundered Foreign Money to Democrat Candidates
Nick R. Hamilton
November 2, 2024 - 10:05 am
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has revealed that investigators have uncovered a “massive scandal” involving the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue.
Johnson said a congressional investigation has found evidence that ActBlue has been illegally laundering foreign cash into the campaigns of Democrat candidates and causes, an exclusive report from Just the News revealed.
The speaker said that Democrats have been hiding donations from adversarial foreign nations in a money laundering scheme.
Johnson spoke about this to the media after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued a confidential memo outlining evidence of the problem.
Comer said the Treasury is looking into hundreds of Suspicious Activity Reports surrounding ActBlue.
The Democrat fundraising platform has been implicated in a scheme where large donations are falsely attributed to several individual small donors.
Johnson suspects this may be a way for the Democratic Party to launder shady contributions from America’s adversaries.
“This is a massive scandal,” Johnson said.
The House Speaker believes this will be so big that “very soon everyone will have to” report on the story.
The scheme may be uncovered soon as Comer, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), and 19 state attorneys general are investigating ActBlue’s fundraising.
They believe the platform may have used the identities of American citizens to hide foreign donations.
On Wednesday, Steil subpoenaed ActBlue’s records on suspicions that the platform acts as an intermediary for collecting donations from foreign nations and masking them with American identities.
ActBlue must show how it will safeguard identities and stop fraudulent donations.
Notably, ActBlue has admitted that it does not require the CVV codes in credit card transactions, which would add a layer of protection to donors.
It has raised $16 billion in modest contributions in the last 10 years to fund leftist causes and candidates.
“My theory is that they’re taking money from foreign nationals, primarily Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela, and they’re breaking down the donations into smaller gifts and making it look as though these are, you know, this is a wave of new donors, American people, that are doing this,” Johnson said.
“And I don’t think it’s true.”
The House Speaker was quick to note that the investigation is ongoing.
“These are all allegations,” Johnson added.
“They’ll be investigated and have to be proven.”
Johnson believes that there may be leftists who knew about the scheme but were complicit in hiding it.
“I think somewhere at, you know, liberal High Command, they made the decision like, well, you know that the benefit outweighs the risk,” Johnson said.
“We’ll have a couple of fall guys who will go to jail eventually.
“But you know, we’ll have this avalanche of cash, and we’ll make sure we win the election.
“They’ll never be able to unwind the results,” the Louisiana Republican pointed out.
“I mean, it’s very serious. It has huge implications for the country,” he added.
Despite that fact, Johnson believes there are senior intelligence officials who knew about the Treasury Department’s reports but did nothing.
“If they ever made that available, I didn’t know about it,” Johnson said.
“Nobody brought it to my attention. We had to do it in reverse.”
The speaker said he is hopeful that “there’ll be a big appetite” for a “bipartisan” investigation.
If it’s true that ActBlue was laundering donations from America’s adversaries to get Democrats elected, it will be the biggest scandal in generations.
Unfortunately, it won’t counteract the scheme’s impact on elections to date, including next week’s presidential contest.
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Nick R. Hamilton
November 2, 2024 - 10:05 am
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has revealed that investigators have uncovered a “massive scandal” involving the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue.
Johnson said a congressional investigation has found evidence that ActBlue has been illegally laundering foreign cash into the campaigns of Democrat candidates and causes, an exclusive report from Just the News revealed.
The speaker said that Democrats have been hiding donations from adversarial foreign nations in a money laundering scheme.
Johnson spoke about this to the media after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued a confidential memo outlining evidence of the problem.
Comer said the Treasury is looking into hundreds of Suspicious Activity Reports surrounding ActBlue.
The Democrat fundraising platform has been implicated in a scheme where large donations are falsely attributed to several individual small donors.
Johnson suspects this may be a way for the Democratic Party to launder shady contributions from America’s adversaries.
“This is a massive scandal,” Johnson said.
The House Speaker believes this will be so big that “very soon everyone will have to” report on the story.
The scheme may be uncovered soon as Comer, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), and 19 state attorneys general are investigating ActBlue’s fundraising.
They believe the platform may have used the identities of American citizens to hide foreign donations.
On Wednesday, Steil subpoenaed ActBlue’s records on suspicions that the platform acts as an intermediary for collecting donations from foreign nations and masking them with American identities.
ActBlue must show how it will safeguard identities and stop fraudulent donations.
Notably, ActBlue has admitted that it does not require the CVV codes in credit card transactions, which would add a layer of protection to donors.
It has raised $16 billion in modest contributions in the last 10 years to fund leftist causes and candidates.
“My theory is that they’re taking money from foreign nationals, primarily Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela, and they’re breaking down the donations into smaller gifts and making it look as though these are, you know, this is a wave of new donors, American people, that are doing this,” Johnson said.
“And I don’t think it’s true.”
The House Speaker was quick to note that the investigation is ongoing.
“These are all allegations,” Johnson added.
“They’ll be investigated and have to be proven.”
Johnson believes that there may be leftists who knew about the scheme but were complicit in hiding it.
“I think somewhere at, you know, liberal High Command, they made the decision like, well, you know that the benefit outweighs the risk,” Johnson said.
“We’ll have a couple of fall guys who will go to jail eventually.
“But you know, we’ll have this avalanche of cash, and we’ll make sure we win the election.
“They’ll never be able to unwind the results,” the Louisiana Republican pointed out.
“I mean, it’s very serious. It has huge implications for the country,” he added.
Despite that fact, Johnson believes there are senior intelligence officials who knew about the Treasury Department’s reports but did nothing.
“If they ever made that available, I didn’t know about it,” Johnson said.
“Nobody brought it to my attention. We had to do it in reverse.”
The speaker said he is hopeful that “there’ll be a big appetite” for a “bipartisan” investigation.
If it’s true that ActBlue was laundering donations from America’s adversaries to get Democrats elected, it will be the biggest scandal in generations.
Unfortunately, it won’t counteract the scheme’s impact on elections to date, including next week’s presidential contest.
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