ActBlue said it verified passport numbers on foreign donations. A new House report prints what verification meant, in ActBlue's own words. Three House committees, Judiciary, Administration and Oversight, released "Fraud on ActBlue, Part III," and unlike the first two it publishes the platform's internal messages: Slack traffic and supervisor notes. On the passport check, quoted in the report: "very basic validation, number of characters, to ensure that the number entered is a valid passport number … but we do not verify the information in any other way." If you typed the right number of digits, that was a verified passport. Supervisors told fraud analysts to "give the donor the benefit of the doubt." One analyst, on a donation where every sign pointed to Canada and the billing address said Missouri: "Twitter seems to confirm that they are a real person." And the company's own legal counsel, in a message the report says was deleted seconds after it was posted: "Please stop deleting my requests. You are violating the laws and policies of our company." Chuck reads the report's own pages, as reported by The Gateway Pundit and RedState.
Also in today's episode: the Federal Reserve raises rates a quarter point to 3.75 to 4 percent, the first hike since 2023 and a unanimous vote under Chairman Kevin Warsh, the president's own pick, who says "the plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long," while the president posts that rates "should be 1% or less," per NBC News and CNBC, and the same week new jobless claims fall to 196,000 against a 208,000 forecast, with the year's average the lowest since 1969, per Breitbart Economics; Townhall's undercover video of a Texas Majority PAC organizer describing $25 payments to attend a one-hour Zoom class as "a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially," and the PAC fires him; a federal judge removes Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner from a murder case and refers him and a top deputy to the Justice Department, writing that they "may have violated the law," per the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Krasner says he "respectfully and vigorously" disagrees; the Justice Department sues two Atlanta lab executives under the False Claims Act, alleging schemes that worked church conferences and senior living communities to bill Medicare for genetic tests; streamer Hasan Piker tells Axios that "pound for pound" the United States is worse than al-Qaeda; a parade horse in Santa Fe outruns motorcycle officers, drones and professional cowboys and still makes the parade; Florida's "Lego Bandit"; and an Iowa family sets the first Guinness record for five generations born on the same day.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Nine stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
