{"id":39961,"date":"2020-09-14T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39961"},"modified":"2020-09-14T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:58:48","slug":"follow-the-money-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39961","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2020\/09\/13\/los-angeles-deputies-shot-during-ambush-attack-biden-supporters-cheer-we-hope-they-die-outside-hospital\/#more-199509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article tracing some of the campaign donations to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-adtags-visited=\"true\"><strong>Some smart sleuthing by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaheemKassam\/status\/1271139409090547713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raheem Kassam<\/a> and Natalie Winters at<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/politics\/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The National Pulse<\/a> shows the donations made to Black Lives Matter actually go to ActBlue.\u00a0 From there <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ActBlue<\/a> takes those contributions and sends them forward to the Joe Biden Campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-ad-0\" class=\"inline-ad-slot\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-adtags-width=\"640\" data-adtags-visited=\"true\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-adtags-visited=\"true\"><strong>As of May 21st, ActBlue has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/pacs\/expenditures.php?cmte=c00401224&amp;cycle=2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated<\/a> $119,253,857 to the \u201cBiden for President\u201d effort. So a contribution to Black Lives Matter, the ideology behind the shooting of the police officers, is a contribution to the Joe Biden campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-adtags-visited=\"true\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-adtags-visited=\"true\"><strong>It\u2019s a smart workaround and provides a back-door for all of the Hollywood and social influence crowd to use.\u00a0 By supporting donations to Black Lives Matter, the leftist movement writ large is essentially funding the DNC.\u00a0\u00a0 The BLM movement is simply a vessel for them to use and exploit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-adtags-visited=\"true\"><strong>Keep in mind you are now hearing of multi-million donations to Black Lives Matter <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/really-big-companies-supporting-black-103000450.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from big corporations<\/a>.\u00a0 Any corporation that pays into this scheme is actually paying to fund Joe Biden 2020 and the Democrats.\u00a0 Now all of those \u201cdonations\u201d make sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/politics\/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National Pulse<\/a> noted:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/defundthepolice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cDefund The Police\u201d<\/a> petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they\u2019re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue and prompted with the message: \u201cWe appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The page notes: \u201cBy proceeding with this transaction, you agree to ActBlue\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/content\/fineprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terms &amp; conditions\u201d<\/a>and includes a banner \u201cActBlue Charities is a qualified 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed under the law\u201d at the bottom of the page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ActBlue is not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and can make political donations.Act Blue Charities is the 501(c)(3). That is how they get around the IRS regulation that prohibits 501(c)(3) organizations from being involved in partisan politics. The banner is totally misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bethbaumann\/2020\/09\/13\/surprise-surprise-data-reveals-where-the-majority-of-bidens-donations-came-from--and-its-bad-news-for-dems-n2576113?fbclid=IwAR1xqsDkpFut_wbPe0PoVGXNZAYvggpsLv9OB9VRfTp4TvMqMux112Cy7V8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Townhall<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The conservative group Take Back Action Fund is sounding the alarm on millions of political donations made to former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign. According to the group, more than half of the 2019 contributions Biden received on the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue came from unemployed people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/exclusive-data-shows-that-half-of-2019-donations-to-actblue-came-from-untraceable-unemployed-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a> reported. That number has increased in 2020, particularly in light of the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"thm-piano-mop\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The organization decided to look at data from 2019, before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, to get a better idea of what donations were like at a time when the unemployment rate was relatively low \u2013 around four percent. Last year, 48.4 percent of ActBlue&#8217;s donations were from &#8220;unemployed.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a snapshot into the funding of Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Conservative Treehouse posted an article tracing some of the campaign donations to Joe Biden. The article notes: Some smart sleuthing by Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters at The National Pulse shows the donations made to Black Lives Matter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12879,7366,9829,12880,11430,12878,11619],"class_list":["post-39961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-501c3-organization","tag-actblue","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-joe-bidens-campaign-funding","tag-the-conservative-treehouse","tag-the-national-pulse","tag-townhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39971,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961\/revisions\/39971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}