Not long ago, ActBlue was a normal player in American politics. Its website served as a major fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and affiliated PACs, allowing them to reach known party donors and solicit grassroots support.

But Donald Trump does not regard normal Democratic politics as acceptable. This spring, at his direction, the Department of Justice initiated an investigation of illegal “foreign contributions” through the ActBlue website. Although the investigation is ostensibly premised on ActBlue having illegally received donations from foreign donors, there’s no reason to think that the underlying motivation is anything but political. Indeed, the Republican fundraising platform, WinRed, is as vulnerable to foreign influence as the Democratic one, yet only the Democratic

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