President Donald Trump will sign a presidential memorandum Thursday launching an investigation into ActBlue for potentially illegal methods of fundraising for Democrats, The Daily Signal has learned.
The memo directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and take appropriate action concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make “straw” or “dummy” contributions and to make foreign contributions to U.S. political candidates and committees.
ActBlue is currently under congressional investigation for alleged laundering of foreign money.
Federal Election Commission records show that in recent elections, some elderly Americans made thousands of small donations to Democratic fundraising political committees through ActBlue, The Daily Signal previously reported.
Individuals may have made numerous donations through ActBlue without their consent or knowledge that their names, addresses, and money were being used for these donations, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., co-chair of the Election Integrity Caucus, told The Daily Signal.
The presidential memorandum notes that a congressional investigation revealed significant fraud schemes using ActBlue and, over a 30-day period during the 2024 election cycle, hundreds of ActBlue donations from foreign IP addresses using prepaid cards, despite it being illegal for foreign nationals to contribute to U.S. elections.
ActBlue came under fire on Oct. 29 because of its donor-verification policies. In a letter that day to ActBlue, House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said foreign actors from Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and China could use the platform to launder illicit money for use in U.S. political campaigns.
The Democratic fundraising platform admitted in 2023 to Steil that it didn’t require contributors to use a card verification value, or CVV, to donate on its website with a credit card. Those security codes are meant to ensure that the person making a purchase physically possesses the credit card.
The memo instructs Bondi to report the results of the investigation to Trump through the Counsel to the President.
ActBlue may have raked in millions through fraudulent donations, according to the testimonies of elderly Americans who said federal election records do not reflect their giving, The Daily Signal has reported.
Eighteen registered Democrats in Connecticut, all over the age of 70, appear to have donated $1.9 million to Democratic causes, including ActBlue, through hundreds of thousands of small donations from 2016 to 2024, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings by Dominic Rapini, cybersecurity company CEO and a former Connecticut Republican candidate for office.
Curious about the donation patterns, Rapini tracked down some of the Connecticut residents and asked them if they really did make thousands of small donations, sometimes multiple in a day, through ActBlue.
Several of the supposed donors told Rapini they did not make any of the reported donations, nor did they know anything about how their names were being used, Rapini told The Daily Signal.
ActBlue did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about the forthcoming investigation.
ActBlue CEO and President Regina Wallace-Jones sent an email to Democrats on Wednesday warning about rumors of the executive order.
“The current strategy of distraction and exhaustion is effective. We see this across the country and are not immune to this ourselves,” her email said, according to Punchbowl News. “The flow-on effect from the initial innuendo of the EO caused many in the ecosystem anxiety and distress.”
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for “The Daily Signal.” Send her an email.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell.
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They also need to investigate how so many members of Congress – especially Democrats – got so rich on a Congressional salary. For example, Chuckie Schumer, who has never held a real job in his entire life but has been in Congress for around 50 years, is reportedly worth $75-80 million. How?
I have heard about this for some time re. use of seniors names and addresses without their knowledge. Have seen some interviews where they were mystified how their information came to be used.
Of course ActBlue is going to deny, stonewall, blame others, see Trump. The oligarchy is alive and well all over the world. They rule the DNC and every dem party around the world. They are not democratic. They keep screaming that those on the right are taking it away. Only it is them since Obama that want a communist regime with a obeying populace totally dependent on government for a living. That is why they are so hell bent on getting this gang banger back from El Salvador. He is the Lenin in the modern era. Like Floyd was in the racist war they started in 2020. Followed by the nep pandemic created by Fauci. The dems are so lost they openly do what they accuse Trump of doing. Only he is succeeding at his plans and policies because he does it for the American citizens, the dems for the Oligarchs. They after all are paying for it all. Bernie your oligarchy show was good for a laugh.
This was exposed on TV at OAN where names of poor seniors on SSi were used to donate millions to Democrats without them even knowing about it. This is how Democrats are supported by foreign monies from China & other corrupt countries to make sure Democrats win. Now we know why.. .Glad to know this admin.is now investigating it because this is how our enemies are making sure their “political puppets” win. And when they win, their policies are towards the demise of America by bankrupting us in trillions of DEBT,
Defund all ActBlue A-Z
As long as the goose keeps laying golden eggs nothing will change, wring it’s neck, perhaps then there will be different kind of congress, the one that actually might do the job it got elected for instead of abusing taxpayer while hoarding millions.
All these years would you think all Republicans presidents would have done the same investigation things could be different now,makes you wonder just how much of a Republican they were?
When are they going to launch an investigation to all these rogue district court judges that are running this country illegally? I think it’s an insurrection! We need an investigation we need to disbar judges and throw them in jail. He cannot do anything without a judge blocking it.
DIMMs are/were money laundering long before this scam. DIMM pols give OUR tax dollars to phony businesses like Solyndra. Then their leftist owners “contribute” to DIMM pols and PACS. They also expand the bureaucracy, then get union contributions from the government employees–again using OUR tax money.
Put an immediate freeze on their bank accounts!
It’s about time.
Good!! It’s about time. Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, Obama, Waren, and the list goes on and on. There should be a TV show with their lying faces to show the taxpayers how they got so rich. It would be fun to watch and sad, too.
Good!
This needs to be proved and publicized so that CNN and the like can’t ignore the story. Maybe the truth will be the cure for the TDS crowd!
All well and good, but will there actually be charges filed? Or are we just going to once again mention the wrong doings and move on? These people need to spend some time in our federal prisons.
Another STINKING liberal “judge” will put the kabosh on this.
This is money laundering in its real form! And I want to see some perp walks! If an average citizen-organization was caught with this much information as to its illegality, it would hit the headlines immediately, and the organization would be no more. But this is the democrats, and I have yet to see any prosecution of any of them; especially the ones who lied to all of us, about the ability of our former President.
The jails would be crowded if all were tried, as they would surely be convicted.
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if all our money was funneled through those supposed INSANE NGO causes through NSAID right back to them through Act Blue so they just had to make it look legit by using registered Dem names.
There is nothing alleged about it, where do you think they get all their money? DNC chair plans to give every state DNC $1,000,000.00. Ever wonder where that comes from? Obviously mine and yours taxpayer dollars laundered somewhere.
This is good work sniffing out and calling out the corrupt communist party money machine ..
While President Trump is investigating the potential illegalities involved in Democratic fundraising, perhaps he might consider who benefited from providing Blackrock from the coming tens of billions of dollars to be taken from taxpayers for doing essentially nothing in Panama. It was said we had to take back control of the virtually obsolete canal (too small for a LOT of commercial haulers), from the Chinese, when reality showed that all the Chinese had were contracts for road, bridge and railway construction for the benefit of the locals. The canal itself was under the iron proud grip of the Panamanians. But the US can’t have that. Thieves be us.