https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1759305508584882680Y’all want to see what a ghost donor bot looks like?
Here’s the data from a 65 yo retired man living in a 962 sq ft house in Clawson, Michigan.
From 2019-2023 the FEC has recorded him making over 15,600 separate donations to political campaigns.
The list below shows the receiving campaign, the # of donations made and the total amount donated from 2019-2023
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This list is just Presidential, Senate & House campaigns. It does not include the 5,000+ donations “he” made to Joint Fundraising Committees or the 1,000+ donations “he” made to leadership committees.
Now ask yourself this… who makes 517 different donations to Tim Scott’s presidential campaign and then turns around and makes 557 separate donations to Nikki Haley’s campaign?
Who donates 659 times to a congresswoman in another state but never gives a dime to any candidates running in their own district?
Answer? Bots.
Specifically, bots being ran by dark money groups who are using campaign funds to control their puppets in DC.
Think it’s just Republicans? HA! Democrats were the master minds of this scam.
Except I’ll give them credit bc unlike Reps who are always just out for themselves, Dems keep their eye on the prize of total control of Congress, ergo the bulk of their bot donations go through ActBlue where they’re able to better distribute them to the candidates who need it.
Here’s the numbers for an 86 year old man from Oak Park, Illinois. He made 11,285 donations to Democrats between April 11, 2019 and December 31, 2023.
That’s roughly 6.5 donations/day, every day, for 1,725 days straight.
Again, he’s 86 years old.
I’m going to be posting a lot more on this in the coming week but I just wanted to throw this out there for yall to think about.
All those lobbying numbers you get from OpenSecrets showing that AIPAC gave someone this much or the NRA game someone else that much- they don’t mean [bleep] anymore.
This right here is where the real influence is being bought.
For the Republican it was $60,694 for the charts above and for the Democrat it was $136,215.
But remember the Republican’s numbers don’t include donations to Joint Fundraising Committees or Leadership PACs so it is more than $60k but I do t have the exact amount in front of me.
To find out if you or anyone you know (specifically your older parents (65+) who may have made one or two legitimate donations in the past)
