Claim: Obama campaign illegally solicited foreign donors via social media website

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has been soliciting foreigners for donations, an explosive report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI) shows. Those foreign donors are allegedly visiting the Obama campaign’s donation solicitation Web pages through a social media website the campaign controls, and through an outside website that serves mostly Internet users from outside the United States.

About 20 percent of visitors to the “my.barackobama.com” social media website “originated from foreign locations,” the report found. That Web address is owned and controlled by the Obama re-election campaign.
“At no point during the [website's] subscription process is a visitor asked whether he or she can legally donate to a U.S. election,” GAI notes.

Read the whole sordid story at: The Daily Caller

 

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Well, let's see if the Lame Stream Media deigns to report this story this time around, unlike in 2008 when it only appeared on Republican-leaning blogs...


Update: Townhall