USA: Trump orders an investigation into a large platform for the financing of democrats

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

Hibapress / Radio-Canada

US President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice on Thursday to open an investigation which will notably target Actblue, the main fundraising platform used by Democrats. His opponents denounce an “attack on democracy”.

In the presidential directive he promulgated, President Trump invokes Extremely disturbing evidence Who, according to him, point to illegal political contributions made by nominee and by foreign citizens.

Reports make fear that malicious actors seek to bypass the funding ceilings by scripting important donations into several contributions wrongly attributed to several individuals, thus supports the memorandum.

The document also argues that Foreign nationals seek to exploit online fundraising to inappropriately influence the US elections.

These activities affect the integrity of our electoral processsaid the document signed by a president who often claimed that the system was faked against him.

The actual target executive measurement, an online platform that allows small donors to contribute to the campaign of democratic candidates, to various party bodies or to causes defended by democratic activists. Even if the decree refers to financing platformsshe is the only nominated body.

In the Mire des Républicains, the organization was the subject of a report presented at the beginning of the month by three committees in the House of Representatives, where they are in the majority.

The little seriousness that Actblue gives to the prevention of fraud Open the door to illegal electoral contributionsthey said in the document of some 500 pages to which the American president refers.

The latter requests the general prosecutor, Pam Bondi, to present a report by 180 days, then Take the necessary measures to enforce the law.