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ActBlue Employees Invoked Fifth Amendment 146 Times During House Probe

ActBlue Employees Invoked Fifth Amendment 146 Times During House Probe

Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, The House Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees has released a joint interim staff report on its investigation into alleged donor fraud by ActBlue. According to Breitbart, the report released Monday says five current and former employees of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue took the Fifth Amendment 146 times during testimony before congressional committees. The Fifth Amendment protects witnesses from potential self-incrimination by allowing them to remain silent. The report titled “Fraud on ActBlue, Part II: Illicit Foreign Donations and a Cover-up Sour Mass Resignations and Firings on ActBlue’s Legal and Compliance Team” details efforts on the part of Congress to investigate claims of fraudulent donations to the platform and argues that ActBlue made its fraud-prevention rules “more lenient” twice in 2024. 🚨NEW REPORT: ACTBLUE EMPLOYEES TAKE THE FIFTH WHEN ASKED ABOUT FOREIGN FRAUD AND WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION AT THE DEMOCRAT DONATION PLATFORM 🧵THREAD: — House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026 A press release from the House Judiciary Committee revealed that the “five current or former employees at ActBlue who …

How Sparta, invoked by Netanyahu and the Trump team, explains 2025

How Sparta, invoked by Netanyahu and the Trump team, explains 2025

Faced with increasing pressure from much of the world over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and the sprawling humanitarian disaster that resulted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked a vision of a vanished Greek city-state. With some Western governments restricting weapons transfers to Israel, the country must adopt a “super Sparta” mentality in the face of increasing isolation, summoning the famed self-reliance and martial resolve of ancient Sparta to boost the Israeli arms industry and hunker down, Netanyahu said in a September address. Source link