Remember when Al Gore – the Pope of the Holy Church of Global Warming – walked away from a Buddhist Temple in California with a couple of tens of thousand dollars in campaign contributions from nuns who’d taken a vow of poverty? Ever since then, Democrats have been Hoovering up money from anywhere, no matter how shady, like Hunter Biden sucked up cocaine off the bodies of the hookers he rented. The Trump administration is now taking notice and investigating where Democrats are getting their money, and it’s got them very, very nervous.
A Politico story on the subject opens, “Democrats on Thursday were bracing for a sustained attack on their fundraising operation by Republicans, as President Donald Trump targets ActBlue.” ActBlue is the portal through which Democrats funnel most of their campaign contributions through, and it’s got a record of shady dealings.
Money from overseas flowed into that portal for a long time because Democrats didn’t care where the money came from – ignorance is cash – they just wanted the money. “In December,” Politico reports, investigators “announced the documents turned over by ActBlue showed that the company had implemented new policies to ‘automatically reject donations that use foreign prepaid/gift cards, domestic gift cards, are from high-risk/sanctioned countries, and have the highest level of risk as determined.’”
What happened in December? Well, the Trump administration 2.0 was gearing up to return to power. With that looming, of course Democrats were going to suddenly find a new respect for the law and take steps to “flag” illegal foreign contributions, among other shady things.
The idea of untraceable, likely corrupt campaign cash is nothing new to Democrats. In 2008, Barack Obama’s campaign was happily accepting donations from untraceable Visa gift cards, the kind hanging around the checkout at your local grocery store. Anyone can buy a Visa gift card, with money from anywhere. It’s untraceable. The only reason to do it is to obscure corruption.
There are limits to how much anyone can give to a politician or party, but if you find yourself having maxed out those limits and still want to give more, just buy a pile of Visa gift cards and you’re in business. This can be done from anywhere in the world, by anyone in the world willing to pony up the cash.