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Taking a page from authoritarians around the world, Trump is targeting his political opposition with criminal investigations.

Donald Trump issued a memorandum on Thursday ordering the Department of Justice to investigate online political fundraising platforms with the intent of targeting Democratic Party fundraising platform ActBlue.

The memorandum specifically mentions ActBlue while using broader language in ordering an investigation into “online fundraising platforms.”

This is the latest in a series of targeted attacks by Trump against his perceived enemies, including law firms, nonprofits and former government officials. This, however, is the first time that he has taken aim at a part of the machinery of the Democratic Party. It is the clearest effort yet by Trump to use the power of the presidency to destabilize and hobble his political opposition. This follows his actions to eliminate or delegitimize all civil society entities that oppose, or could, oppose him.

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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trump ordered the DOJ to open an investigation into whether online political fundraising platforms ― that is, ActBlue ― facilitated contributions by straw donors and foreign donors into the campaign committees of Democratic candidates and party organizations. This follows separate investigations by congressional Republicans and state attorneys general alleging that ActBlue had loose anti-fraud measures that helped facilitate potentially fraudulent donations to Democratic campaigns and organizations, but did not accuse the platform of violating any laws.

Maybe ActBlue did this, but now I know Trump has done it.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

We know Eric Adams did something similar with Turkish donors in New York. There was also a ton of reports of this happening during Trump's first campaign.

[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe they should also investigate that 2016 (and onwards) intel about Russian interference and backing of far right elections...

Unless this isn't actually about justice and holding corruption accountable, of course.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yet technically the dept can go after Republican fundraising platforms... And ignore actblue...

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

They won't with Pam at the helm...

[–] UsernameHere@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why is it that both Trump and progressives on lemmy want the DNC to not have fundraising?

[–] FlyingSpaceCow@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't see any comments from progressives arguing that this is a good thing or that Democrats shouldn't have effective fundraising.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

One of those "we're not the same" sort of things I wager.

Progressives see the established DNC as the vehicle trump used to get into power and install a fascist dictatorship today. So they're pretty useless.

They would rather the funds go to progressives than establishment DNCs, as progressives typically fight against shit like this rather than being a part of the neoliberal group like many incumbent DNC leaders are.

Taking down Act Blue is probably not a good idea, but I think progressives are upset that there's not something like that for less entrenched democratic/progressive candidates to use.