texagbeliever said:
nortex97 said:
Thx, I really don't understand/believe that one yet, either.
We do know Actblue facilitated a lot of credit card fraud/foreign donors etc. in its donation/money laundering schemes, but I am not sure how wildly untrue vs. accurate the mortgage wire x-fer stuff is.
Mark Finchem and Shawn Taylor seem to be the two who have latched onto this in AZ, but I think it's likely they are very much over-stating their case/evidence.
I know people get impatient with the Trump administration, but the goal seems clear to me.
Stop the money funnel scheme to the democrat machine. USAID, ActBlue, and others could change the game. If suddenly the coffers for democrats arent 5-10x the Republicans what will happen then?
I'm not saying there are timing implications for this as well, but... my cynical brain says that could be the case. Do you really, really want to give Democrats 15 months to find new funding mechanisms? Or do you wait on this and then raid them, seize and freeze the assets say in the middle of March or April just as primary season starts to really get going? And give them 6 months to unfreeze money, solicit all new donations, set up funding mechanisms, have donors not wanting to get involved with Federal investigations, etc.?
https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/So, again, that would be dirty pool. After the last almost 10 years I'm not, per se, opposed to dirty pool in the bounds of the law. The Democrats will never learn a lesson from this if it isn't made to hurt. And they quite rightly deserve it and we may never be able to rachet the tension down. That's hard to do at the best of times. But if you don't see "OMG immediate action, raids, grand juries, charges!" right now... well it could be because you can inflict maximum damage then and then find bundlers, groups, etc. that are forced to spend large amounts of money on lawyers, auditors, accountants, and pull key people away while simultaneously scaring away big dollar donors from those groups, PACs, campaigns, NGOs, etc. during the middle of what is sure to be a contentious and difficult campaign season.
Trump apparently has $1.5 billion set up for 2026. If you crush the consolidated main funding wing for "small dollar" donations and freeze that money in place and then start sucking in their associated groups and causing them to spend money on anything but the campaigns, all while forcing these groups to set up their own funding or have other vendors run their funding and taking a larger portion while having a smaller reach... well you absolutely can do so very, very serious damage to their electoral prospects all while chasing a number of (allegedly, but almost certainly) real crimes.
Not saying that thought process has been discussed, probably without cell phones or electronics in the room and without notes, because I have zero first, second or thirdhand knowledge of that. But if I was running a political operation and I was asked my opinion on when should we time these actions to be able to provide the maximum amount of evidence... well when all these groups and campaigns are ramping up for donations seems like the ideal time.
