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.
I see progressives on here everyday attacking democrats for fundraising.
It’s a bit different criticising a party for courting thinly disguised bribes from oligarchs and plutocrats, and wanting to remove all funding a party.
The comments on here don’t reflect those differences.
What comments specifically? Care to link any of them since you claim to see them every single day?
Oh, okay fair enough. I meant in this comment section in particular.