Trump Takes Aim at Democrats’ Online Fundraising Platforms

President Trump has decided to target the online fundraising websites that power a majority of Democrats’ political campaigns. In an executive order on Thursday, the Trump administration initiated a plan to investigate ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s primary grassroots fundraising tool. The executive order, which was published on the White House website on Thursday, claims that “foreign nationals” could be using fundraising sites like ActBlue to make contributions to American elections. The order authorizes the new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessant, to probe such sites for evidence of malfeasance. It states: …press reports and investigations by congressional committees have generated extremely troubling evidence that online fundraising platforms have been willing participants in schemes to launder excessive and prohibited contributions to political candidates and committees. The order goes on: Specifically, these reports raise concerns that mali ... Read full article.