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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In April, The New York Times ran a story about a key Democrat fundraising platform with this headline: \u201cActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned.\u201d So Congress launched hearings because foreign donations to U.S. politicians, particularly campaigning politicians, is a big no-no.<\/p>\n

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But when asked this week to clarify and explain and correct the record, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones said: crickets. And not just once. Again and again and again.<\/p>\n

\u201cActBlueCEO repeatedly invokes Fifth Amendment in House hearing as donor fraud probe intensifies,\u201d ABC News wrote in one headline.<\/p>\n

\u2019The CEO of the largest Democratic fundraising platform, ActBlue, pleaded the Fifth nearly two dozen times,\u201d ABC News reported.<\/p>\n

Instead, and in preview of her House Administration Committee hearing, as a means of getting ahead of the controversy of her planned vow of silence, Wallace-Jones wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post explaining a pleading of the Fifth was in no way an admission of guilt; in no way was it \u201ca retreat,\u201d but rather \u201ca reasonable response to a proceeding that from the beginning has been about harassing a political opponent\u2019s fundraising platform, not genuine oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hmm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Except that it was The New York Times that reported on the matter that drove further investigation. The New York Times. Hardly a harasser of Democrat causes.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another way to look at it: Whenever a liberal-leaning news organization reports something akin to negative news about a Democrat or a Democrat organization, then chances are pretty high that not only is the report true, but it\u2019s a watered-down version of the truth. It\u2019s like the newspaper powers decided, in quiet closed-door editorial meetings, that the story was too hot to ignore, so in order to appear as if their journalists are not carrying water for the Democrats, they have to report it. Regarding this ActBlue matter, they probably debated how best to angle the report so as to inflict the least possible amount of damage on their Democrat friends. But they reported it, nonetheless. And here\u2019s another thought: Whenever a liberal-leaning news organization reports something akin to negative about their Democrat friends, or Democrat organizations, smart money\u2019s on the side of suspecting that the report is just a drop in the bucket of the larger scandal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Again, specific to the ActBlue matter \u2014so when The New York Times wrote that the law firm, Covington & Burling, expressed legal concerns of \u201csubstantial risk\u201d about the Democrat fundraiser\u2019s assertions of vetting, those \u201clegal concerns\u201d of \u201dsubstantial risk\u201d are probably just taps at the glaring gongs that are being banged among the legal community.<\/p>\n

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wanted to get Americans those answers, but unfortunately, a judge in Massachusetts just told him he can\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cU.S. judge blocks Ken Paxton\u2019s lawsuit against Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue,\u201d The Detroit News reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cFederal Judge Blocks Paxton\u2019s ActBlue Lawsuit, Citing First Amendment Retaliation,\u201d Law Commentary wrote.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always a happy circumstance for Democrats when they can get a Massachusetts judge to tell a MAGA Texan to stop. Not curious at all. Probably nothing biased about that.<\/p>\n

In April, three House committees \u2014 Administration, Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform \u2014 an interim staff report called, \u201cFraud on ActBlue, Part II: Illicit Foreign Donations and a Cover-up Spur Mass Resignations and Firings on ActBlue\u2019s Legal and Compliance Team,\u201d a 120-page document that detailed, well, what its title suggested.<\/p>\n

This week, House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil, Republican from Wisconsin, said: \u201cThere\u2019s a significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress and withheld responsive documents from a congressional subpoena.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in defense, ActBlue\u2019s Wallace-Jones said: [insert smirk here].<\/p>\n

\u201cShe refus[ed] to answer even a question about her name from Rep. Barry Loudermilk,\u201d The Hill wrote.<\/p>\n

Yep. She figures she only has to hold out until November.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cheryl Chumley can be reached at\u00a0cchumley@washingtontimes.com\u00a0or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast \u201cBold and Blunt\u201d by\u00a0clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by\u00a0clicking HERE. Her latest book, \u201cGod-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,\u201d is available by\u00a0clicking HERE.<\/em><\/p>\n

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