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Skywise 36 points ago +36 / -0

Just like with Obama's campaign in 2008 when they took credit card donations on his website of under $20 a piece and NOBODY verified the donors or the donor's locations.

Just trumpeted it as "all the little people donating what they could to help Obama"

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Ballind 12 points ago +12 / -0

Worse, Obama actually paid extra transaction costs to set it up specifically so that the donors were not verified

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Skywise 9 points ago +9 / -0

Well yeah - the whole thing was a money laundering operation - that’s why they kept the donations at around $20 each so that it wouldn’t trigger an investigation.

A few thousand dollar donations by one donor could be flagged and investigated.

100 $20 donations over the span of a week would be impossible to track.

And notice NOBODY in the “fourth estate” has investigated why BLM donations go straight to ActBlue!

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flashersenpai 6 points ago +6 / -0

They probably could track them, but banks are negligent in stopping any kind of laundering since they get transaction fees anyway. Not to mention they just pay a fine instead of anyone going to jail.