This week’s executive order instructing the Justice Department to take action against ActBlue, the payment-processing platform used by Democratic campaigns and progressive advocacy groups, is another example of the regime’s use of Federal power for partisan ends.
After more than a decade in this field, working directly with campaigns that were raising money with ActBlue, I’ve yet to see even a glimpse of the fraud Trump alleges — it really is just a payment processing platform, like PayPal or Square, with some minor tweaks to facilitate relevant workflows like joint fundraising and compliance reporting.
If ActBlue didn’t exist, these campaigns would still be able to raise money — plenty of organizations have always collected donations directly, using traditional credit-card processors, and if ActBlue is crippled the others will shift over quickly — but this investigation is designed to cause disruption and confusion for Trump’s political opponents, and is a perfect example of why the firewall between the President and the Justice Department was erected after Watergate.
If there is any justice, this proposed investigation will quickly conclude that ActBlue is no more a channel for fraud than any other platform — and much less than WinRed, its Republican-aligned counterpart.
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