Trump Targets Dem Groups After MAGA Attacks on ActBlue

President Donald Trump and the GOP are looking to target the institutions the Democratic Party relies on to compete in elections.

White House official are in the process of identifying “vulnerabilities inside the Democratic ecosystem,” according to two sources who spoke to The New York Times.

Collectively, the efforts amounted to an attempt “to cut the legs out from their opposition,” Cole Leiter, the executive director of the progressive coalition, Americans Against Government Censorship, told The New York Times.

In particular, they are aiming to launch investigations into the donation platform ActBlue and the consulting firm Arabella Advisors, which make up the financial backbones of the Democratic Party, alleging illegal activity.

Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire buddy, wrote, “Something stinks about ActBlue,” in an X comment on March 7. In an appearance on Ted Cruz’s podcast on Monday, the Tesla CEO also claimed that Arabella Advisors and ActBlue were part of a “left-wing N.G.O cabal” that was funding protests against his car company.

Meanwhile, Kash Patel, the Trump-loyal FBI director, has reportedly told his team to “work aggressively” with congressional committees, and Trump ally Charlie Kirk said Monday, “I think the FBI’s going to do something on ActBlue soon.”

In Congress, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa claimed there were “credible allegations” that ActBlue had assisted groups accused of supporting terrorism last week, after the House passed a Republican bill that would give the Treasury secretary the power to revoke the tax-exempt status of any charitable group deemed to be a “terrorist-supporting” organization.

Trump on Friday issued an executive order restricting the business activities of the law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. One of its former lawyers, Mark F. Pomerantz, oversaw Manhattan’s investigation into Trump in 2020.

Leiter said that while the idea that Trump and the GOP are seeking to cripple the Democratic machinery may “sound conspiratorial,” it is “a sober description of what they’re trying to do.”

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.