Investigation into Foreign Donations

Uh, Waffle? Yeah?

It says here that you've

donated 150 000 in the last five years to various campaigns and that you've

made nearly 15 000 donations. I doubt it. You want to see it? 15 000, yeah.

15 000 separate donations on the computer.

Did you make 15 000 donations in five years? 150 000?

150, hell no. I don't have that kind of money.

Do you have internet?

Sometimes. Sometimes? Yeah. Do you have a computer?

No. No? So how could you make all these donations? I don't know.

Are these all mine? Yes, this is. Now, there's 900 pages.

I ran out of paper to print it out.

Your board chairman said ActBlue accepted up to 38 million contributions

in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin.

How much fraud is too much fraud?

On the advice of counsel,

I respectfully declined to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth

Amendment rights under the Constitution.

How many foreign contributions did Act Blue accept?

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined

to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

How much money did Act Blue accept from Russia?

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined

to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

Why did your entire legal team quit?

Your in house legal team.

On the advice of counsel,

I respectfully declined to answer the question

pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?

On the advice of counsel,

I respectfully decline to answer the question,

pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

I understand. And we won't keep you here all day, but let me just do one more.

Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats?

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question,

pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

Mr. Chairman, again, I appreciate the good work you and your committee are doing.

I don't know if you saw the New York Times is saying the Democrats were

taking millions of dollars in foreign donations and may have been lying about it.

Are you looking into this?

I can tell you that that is a priority of this administration and this Department

of Justice.

And it's something that a lot of people have been very worried about for a

very long time. And you should rest assured that

it includes the Department of Justice and it includes me. All right.