Democratic Socialist’s Campaign Tied To Questionable Donations

An investigation into a donor who contributed over $100,000 to ActBlue led to a strange discovery in the campaign of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic socialist currently running for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat.

Eighty-eight-year-old widow Elizabeth Waffle, who lives in a run-down trailer, allegedly donated more than $150,000 through nearly 15,000 contributions over 5 years to ActBlue. Forty-seven of those donations were to Abdul El-Sayed in the last two years, the Michigan Enjoyer reported. 

Waffle, who lives on a “modest pension,” according to the report, was stunned to hear the numbers when asked. 

“One hundred and fifty thousand? Hell no. I don’t have that kind of money,” Waffle said in the interview. 

“This is very abnormal,” she added. “I think it’s wrong and I think there’s something in there that is off.”

“But somehow, those few dozen small donations she has made over the past five years have transmogrified into 14,696 donations totaling more than $150,000,” the outlet reported.

Waffle continued to tell LeDuff she does not even own a computer and only “sometimes” has access to WiFi. The documents he presented to her show her making donations to out-of-state candidates with names that “don’t ring a bell” from both her trailer and a previously owned apartment on the same day. 

ActBlue has been the target of multiple investigations since 2023 for “rinsing foreign money” and “massive private donations” that are made up by stealing older citizens’ identities, according to the Michigan Enjoyer.

Just last month, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones appeared under subpoena before a House Administration Committee as part of a broader investigation into ActBlue’s fraud. During the hearing, she invoked her Fifth Amendment right a whopping 22 times, failing to answer many questions when asked about the investigation that started three years ago.

El-Sayed has openly admitted that he takes money from ActBlue. His campaign has boasted about the donations it has received on multiple occasions, including in The Detroit News, Bridge Michigan, and even his own campaign website.

According to the Michigan Enjoyer, Rep. Haley Stevens has also received contributions from ActBlue, “[as] has Slotkin, Whitmer, Nessel, Benson, Gilchrist, and the entire Democrat gang.”