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Who Are These 'Unemployed' Donors Contributing Nearly Half of Democrat Group ActBlue's Massive Campaign Funds?
PJ Media ^ | 09/13/2020 | Rick Moran

Posted on 09/13/2020 11:25:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The fundraising group ActBlue is the most successful leftwing money group in the country. In 2019, they raised more than $467 million from 3.7 million donors.

But there are questions where a lot of that money comes from. More than 40 percent of the cash came from donors who said they were “unemployed.” Federal law requires that political donors disclose the name of their employer in giving money.

By contrast, a GOP group called WinRed raised $301.8 million in 2019 but only 5 percent of the donors were unemployed.

Take Back Action Fund, a conservative group, examined the ActBlue fundraising figures. They found the discrepancies and are continuing to see if they can track down who these unemployed donors are.

The fear is that foreign sources have been funneling millions of dollars into liberal coffers in violation of U.S. law.

Fox News:

“After downloading hundreds of millions of [dollars in] donations to the Take Back Action Fund servers, we were shocked to see that almost half of the donations to ActBlue in 2019 claimed to be unemployed individuals,” he said. “The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations, but more than 4.7 million donations came from people who claimed they did not have an employer. Those 4.7 million donations totaled $346 million ActBlue raised and sent to liberal causes.”

The trend is continuing this year: An Action Fund examination of 2020 data from January through August showed an uptick in “unemployed” donations through ActBlue, to 50.1% this year.

In 2008, the FEC fined the Obama for President campaign a record amount for accepting illegal donations from overseas. But that was small potatoes.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: actblue; democrats; dnc; donors; moneylaundering; unemployed
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We’re looking at hundreds of millions of dollars now — easily enough to sway elections or ballot initiatives — with questionable origins.


1 posted on 09/13/2020 11:25:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They are laundering huge corporate BLM donations to the DNC.
It’s a left-wing, communist, money-laundering entity


2 posted on 09/13/2020 11:29:02 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Their name is George Soros.


3 posted on 09/13/2020 11:32:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. -E Snowden)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://sentinelcolorado.com/news/state-and-region/colorado-news/colorado-deals-with-widespread-fraud-in-unemployment-claims/

This should shed some light on things.


4 posted on 09/13/2020 11:33:16 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Time to start running the names and addresses against the IRS database to determine if they really are unemployed.


5 posted on 09/13/2020 11:34:14 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s about $74 each. I guess these unemployed could be a ton of retirees, but I’m thinking involvement from those who should not be involved.


6 posted on 09/13/2020 11:38:31 AM PDT by Mathews (ItÂ’s all gravy, baby!)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Time to start running the names and addresses against the IRS database to determine if they really are unemployed.

That's right!

7 posted on 09/13/2020 11:38:56 AM PDT by timestax
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To: lgjhn23

And of course the spineless GOP establishment will do nothing about it. Trump will receive no support from the GOPe to counter the Rats campaign to steal the election.


8 posted on 09/13/2020 11:42:38 AM PDT by buckalfa (Feed Your Head ! Feed Your Head !)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most are probably 10-12 yr old Slaves in Communist China, Joe’s Buddies.


9 posted on 09/13/2020 11:48:07 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Soros.


This. Sadly, much of this money that is being funneled was likely given to other organizations under the umbrella. The public money is moved around like a board game.

Watch Rudy G’s podcast on the missing billions from the Ukraine. “Nobody” knows where all the taxpayer money we gave them went.

For those who think it might be a “conspiracy theory about Soros” might do well to ask themselves how/why so many of our senior state department, FBI, and other folks from our foreign embassies that were funneling aid now work for Soros after they retire.

Coincidence? I doubt it. When you have the people who distribute public money going to work for the entities that received it only months or years later you have a problem and when you have billions, with a B, that the State Dept cannot account for you likely have a crime.


10 posted on 09/13/2020 11:50:16 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: SeekAndFind

How could an unemployed person possibly have $75 to donate to a political campaign? That’s 3 day’s food for a small family.


11 posted on 09/13/2020 12:01:53 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The donations marked “unemployed” are not from the common people or retired people [retired is a place on the form to check so it’s not from them]. It’s money from foreign sources or dark money from the corporate masters, banking masters and deep statists that want to keep their evil control of our government.

It’s a tactic used before by the Obama campaign where a lot of small donations from poorly vetted sources poured in to his campaign. A million of cash cards bought by who knows who used under fake names.


12 posted on 09/13/2020 12:05:55 PM PDT by RicocheT
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“Time to start running the names and addresses against the IRS database to determine if they really are unemployed.”
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The real issue is not whether some REAL donors are unemployed... surely there are. The real problem is the near certainty that many of these donations come from fictional “people” to launder the real source of the funds. For such “laundry” donations made with made up names it’s easier to simply make up a name each individual donation and not also ADDITIONALLY make up or assign an employer name for that person. Making up or assigning an employer name would also make it easier to expose that donation’s information as phony (e.g., “Hey, we don’t have an employee named John Doe.”). Remember, these “laundering” donations will be done by the tens of thousands in small (i.e., less than $200) amounts to convey the millions of dollars of illegal donations (e.g., Chicoms, Soros).


13 posted on 09/13/2020 12:08:24 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: lgjhn23

AARP for one.


14 posted on 09/13/2020 12:10:56 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: Don W

Social Security, pensions, life savings. AARP puts the fear of God into Seniors that Trump is going to end Social Security and Medicare.


15 posted on 09/13/2020 12:12:08 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: lgjhn23

I like how are a great and wonderful president brought up Biden is very disgraceful ad based on the Atlantic article of last week and said” now I’m allowed to be vicious!”

If they’re going to stoop that low of making up things that I would say to disgrace veterans of all people , that’s beyond the pale!


16 posted on 09/13/2020 12:13:28 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II! Furthermore if they)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see... china, iran, sore-azz, fraudulent PPP and unemployment claims, Rat party. Should be a good start.


17 posted on 09/13/2020 12:13:59 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: RicocheT

This reminds me of those “Breaking Bad” episodes where Walt Jr. was so excited that his web site was getting small donations from folks all over the world to help pay his father’s medical expenses—but in fact they were Walt’s laundered drug money...


18 posted on 09/13/2020 12:19:16 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Some criminals, (in America’s criminal caste system — namely America’s socialist political class), are just “to big to fail”.


19 posted on 09/13/2020 12:20:19 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: mountainlion

Easy Peasy. Just direct deposit unemployment funds to Leftist Entities


20 posted on 09/13/2020 12:27:44 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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