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Rachel Leingang

HISTORICAL FACTS: Trump targets democratic fundraising platform actblue with memorandum - The Untold Story

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Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

The Republican president is taking aim at a Democratic fundraising platform, issuing a presidential memorandum to crack down on supposed foreign contributions to elections, an unsubstantiated claim from the right..

Donald Trump announced the memo on Thursday, directing the attorney general to investigate, and report to the president, “concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make ‘straw’ or ‘dummy’ contributions and to make foreign contributions to US political candidates and committees, all of which break the law”.

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