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Forget 2,000 Mules; O’Keefe Points to 2,000 Donors
Remember the documentary 2,000 Mules, where it was alleged that Democrats were illegally stuffing drop boxes by hiring agents to drop off ballots in the middle of the night?
Well, turns out that’s not the only way Democrats have been manipulating elections. James O’Keefe brings a new allegation of illegal campaign work. This time via donations. From the Billings Report:
The Gateway Pundit has done a great article on money moles, consisting of people who are allegedly unemployed, but seem to make many donations to Democratic candidates, many of them from out of state.
James O’Keefe has taken it to a whole new level by going door to door and questioning the donations made in their name. One person slammed the door in O’Keefe’s face. That is a sure sign of innocence, isn’t it?
The homes where O’Keefe canvassed belong to people that the FEC has down for making thousands of donations for a total of up to 300 grand.
I like how all these donors are Not Employed.
Campaign Finance Mules are making thousands of low donations across the country from people who are ‘unemployed.’ Presumably employed people wouldn’t want to risk the felony.
All this information is from here.
Chris asked “active” donors what they would think if he told them that he had identified voters who were making thousands of campaign donations in an election year. They all had the same response. “Anyone making that amount of donations is laundering money and is part of a criminal enterprise.”
So what are the chances that Ratsburger in Georgia will investigate any of this.
Published in General
Zero.
Saw this on the Quartering of all places.
Maybe they will go after O’Keefe for making in kind contributions.
I’m sure our news media will be all over this as soon as Trump is perp-walked next week.
I saw O’Keefe going to the homes of people in Maryland who were shown as making thousands of donations to ActBlue. The people were actual donors but only gave a few donations for much less than what was reported. Evidently they take the contact information from real donors and then use that to launder money without the person’s knowledge.
In the video I saw, the people had no idea of the vast donations. They had used ActBlue to give a few bucks, but denied giving $240,000 by making 30+ donations per day. The implication is that someone *inside* ActBlue is using the database of donors to launder money into campaigns. Electronic money transfers are highly traceable, so let’s see if anyone bothers to look into this. The House GOP should be sending subpoenas to ActBlue and the credit card companies today. Let us also remember that it was a single judge in NJ(?) that put a nationwide ban on GOP electioneering for 40 years. Is there one GOP judge that has the stones to shut down DNC fundraising nationwide for 40 years???
Nothing will happen. The FBI will just determine that Warnock was “exceedingly careless.”
The election was fair because the courts have not ruled that it was not. We were told this over and over by NTers.
Yep.
Nothing ever happens to Democrats
Not ever
This answers a question I had during the 2022 elections. Throughout the campaign it was reported that the Dems were setting records in the number of small dollar donations they were receiving and Dem politicians and liberal pundits were boasting how all these small donors showed that the Dems were running a “grass roots” campaign and the regular Joes were overwhelmingly for them. I couldn’t understand it at the time but at least I now know why.
“bookkeeping errors.”
Can happen to anyone.
Haven’t they been doing that for decades, such as that guy in the Clinton Years, the Chinese guy whose name escapes me?
That was Johnny Chung, some of whose donations was money provided him by Chinese Communist military intelligence.
And don’t forget Al Gore with his big donations from some Buddhist monks, i.e., guys who lived under their vows of poverty.
Indeed. I suppose this is as good a time as any for a reminder, but nobody should think that O’Keefe has discovered something NEW.
And Charlie Trie, and a bunch of others.
Buddhist nuns, though they may identify as monks now. You never know.
True, but the ability to see the detail is fascinating. That and the way the FEC looks the other way.
Attorney General Janet Reno investigated Al Gore’s illegal Buddhist temple fundraiser the same way the FBI investigated the Hunter Biden laptop: very, very slowly.
Something like bankruptcy happens slowly at first, then all at once; Dimocrat political malfeasance is investigated very slowly, then not at all.
If you go slow enough…the statue of limitations always expires.
The George W. Bush administration could have continued investigating, but that would have been — undecorous. George Will would have frowned, yes, definitely frowned …
Unless you’re a Republican in New York, evidently.
Well, for Republicans in NY the timere stops if you leave the State (or get elected President).
Statute of limitation stops if you leave NY, but NY taxes don’t? Sweet deal for them!