{"id":63647,"date":"2026-04-22T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63647"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:41:39","slug":"shenanigans-in-campaign-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63647","title":{"rendered":"Shenanigans In Campaign Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2024, I wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> about campaign donations to Democrats coming from ActBlue. ActBlue was recording donations from people who never sent them. The actual origin of those donations was unknown. Well, at least we have reached the point where Congress is looking at the situation.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2026\/04\/five-actblue-employees-plead-fifth-146-questions-during\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Monday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising platform, for \u201cdeceiving Americans by lying about its donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign donations.\u201d This was following an internal investigation that \u201cprove[d] that ActBlue continues to process gift card donations\u201d without proving identification of the donor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The same day, the House Judiciary Committee deposed five employees after subpoenas were issued to two employees in June 2025 by Reps. Jim Jordan, Bryan Steil, and James Comer. The recent depositions included \u201ctop staff responsible for fraud prevention\u201d and sought to \u201clearn more about the platform\u2019s acceptance of illegal donations \u2013 and the subsequent cover-up,\u201d according to a post on X by the House Judiciary GOP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;The House Judiciary GOP account states that the five employees were asked 146 questions and that the ActBlue employees \u201crefused to answer a single one, invoking their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination every time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The questions included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Is there any reason you are unable to provide truthful answers to today\u2019s questions?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have ActBlue executives ever instructed you to allow more fraud on the platform or weaken ActBlue\u2019s fraud-prevention defenses?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have you ever been part of a conspiracy to launder foreign money into fraudulent donations for campaigns using ActBlue?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Did members of ActBlue\u2019s legal and compliance teams leave ActBlue after the 2024 election because of the platform\u2019s inability to prevent fraud during previous election cycles?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pleading the Fifth does not mean that you are guilty, but it is definitely interesting that the people from ActBlue would not even explain why they wouldn&#8217;t answer the questions. Hopefully someone will go to jail for their criminal activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2024, I wrote an article about campaign donations to Democrats coming from ActBlue. ActBlue was recording donations from people who never sent them. The actual origin of those donations was unknown. Well, at least we have reached the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63647\">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":[7366,608,19412,19413,11593,11716],"class_list":["post-63647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-actblue","tag-fifth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution","tag-foreign-campaign-donations","tag-fraudulent-campaign-donations","tag-house-judiciary-committee","tag-the-gateway-pundit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63647","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=63647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63648,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63647\/revisions\/63648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}