Elon Musk responded to latest findings from the Home of Consultant’s investigation into potential ActBlue marketing campaign finance fraud utilizing international cash to affect US elections, calling their practices “extraordinarily unlawful.”
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on the laundering of cash to political campaigns by way of fraudulent small-dollar donations to ActBlue, also called “smurfing.” These contributions are made by way of identification theft, usually utilizing senior residents’ private info to funnel cash into political causes.
A lot of this cash seems to return from international sources and is being laundered by Democrats by way of Ukraine. The Gateway Pundit not too long ago reported that former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa mentioned as much as half of the US support to Ukraine was laundered by Ukrainians, and far was given to US Democrats.
A number of the people accused of this fraudulent scheme embrace Soros-funded Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis, Soros Funded Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg, Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin (WI), Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock (GA), and Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
Beforehand, James O’Keefe uncovered the huge scheme concentrating on senior residents who had no thought they have been donating hundreds or lots of of hundreds of {dollars} to ActBlue.
Moreover, final week, a Wisconsin choose has authorised a subpoena for paperwork requested in an October lawsuit alleging practically 400 incidents of identification theft to make fraudulent donations to Democratic campaigns by way of ActBlue “smurfs,” The Gateway Pundit reported.
This and the Home Admin Committee’s findings ought to open the door for a spread of investigations, together with felony investigations, into the suspicious fundraising platform.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday, the Home Administration Committee’s investigation into the dark-money democrat donation platform discovered that ActBlue modified its insurance policies to robotically reject donations from pay as you go playing cards and sanctioned international nations in September. This provides extra credibility to the claims that Ukrainian support cash is being laundered again to the US to affect elections.
The Home Administration Committee is now additionally looking for solutions from Sift, the corporate that “supplied ‘fraud detection and prevention providers’ for ActBlue.” Each Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have despatched a request to Sift’s CEO, Kris Nagel, requesting the corporate’s cooperation with oversight and to offer a listing of paperwork courting again to January 2020.
The Home’s investigation into smurfing and unlawful donations by way of ActBlue lastly comes after years of reporting on the subject by The Gateway Pundit and others.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson shared the invention of potential ActBlue marketing campaign finance fraud Wednesday on X, commenting, “Our work right here is simply getting began.”
Tesla and Area X CEO Elon Musk, who President Trump has tapped to co-lead the Division of Authorities Effectivity, an outdoor consulting company to chop trillions of {dollars} in authorities waste, responded, “Wow, extraordinarily unlawful.”
Wow, extraordinarily unlawful! https://t.co/OzbmHmPIok
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2024
Investigative journalist and O’Keefe Media Group founder James O’Keefe highlighted his previous reporting on the problem from practically two years in the past, stating, “This isn’t information to us—we’ve been investigating ActBlue fraud for years. Unlawful donations threaten election integrity. The work to show the reality continues…”
This isn’t information to us—we’ve been investigating ActBlue fraud for years.
Unlawful donations threaten election integrity. The work to show the reality continues… https://t.co/slcpfROnUA pic.twitter.com/49gWup4Em0
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 11, 2024
Hopefully, throughout President Trump’s second time period with Pam Bondi as Legal professional Normal, Congress will get severe with their investigations and efficiently refer felony and civil prices to the Division of Justice.