WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Congressional Integrity Project has sent a formal letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil demanding an investigation into Republican fundraising platform WinRed for systematic violations of campaign finance laws during the 2024 election, including accepting illegal foreign donations and contributions from anonymous donors using fraudulent information.
The letter comes as House Republicans renew baseless calls from Trump and his allies to investigate Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue – calls based on allegations experts have said are “not serious” – while systematically ignoring documented evidence that the Republican platform WinRed facilitated thousands of illegal contributions with virtually no oversight or verification measures in place. The contrast reveals the blatant hypocrisy and selective enforcement at the heart of Republican oversight efforts.
The Congressional Integrity Project released the following statement:
“Trump and his allies in Congress are doing exactly what we’ve come to expect: weaponizing government power to target his political enemies while turning a blind eye to his party’s own massive violations.
The hypocrisy is stunning: Republicans in Congress are launching baseless attacks against Democratic platforms like ActBlue, while their own WinRed platform is the poster child of corruption, facilitating thousands of dollars in illegal foreign donations and contributions from fake identities.
This isn’t about election integrity – it’s about Congressional Republicans waging phony investigations to distract Americans from the documented corruption on their own platform. If House Republicans cared about the integrity of our elections as they claim, they would investigate the real violations happening right under their noses with WinRed instead of manufacturing fake scandals to target their political opponents.”
The letter details extensive evidence of WinRed’s campaign finance violations:
Trump’s Campaigns Systematically Accepted Illegal Foreign Donations
WinRed Accepted Donation From Chinese National And Failed To Verify Citizenship Of Over 200 Foreign Donors
- Trump’s campaign violated federal law prohibiting foreign national contributions by accepting donations from more than 200 donors living abroad whose U.S. citizenship was never verified, including a $5,000 donation from Chinese businessman Jiajun “Jack” Zhang through Republican platform WinRed.
Trump Inaugural Committee Accepted $1 Million From Wife Of Nigerian Businessman With Direct Financial Interest In Trump Policies
- Trump’s inaugural committee accepted a $1 million donation from Nnenna Peters, wife of Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters, whose resource extraction companies stand to benefit directly from Trump’s critical minerals policies—a key focus of his administration’s efforts to secure access to materials powering modern technology. The donation raises legal questions since federal law prohibits using noncitizen spouses’ funds for campaign contributions, and Peters’ wife had previously donated exclusively to Democratic campaigns, including $66,800 to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
GOP Fundraising Platform Ignored Basic Verification
WinRed Demonstrated Systematic Failure To Verify Donor Information, Rejecting Fewer Than 40 Donations To Trump
- Trump’s campaign accepted donations through Republican platform WinRed, which rejected fewer than 40 contributions despite accepting donations from fake addresses and anonymous donors, demonstrating inadequate oversight.
Trump Campaign Accepted Over 1,000 Contributions From Donors Who Deliberately Concealed Their Identities
- Trump received over 1,000 contributions from 150 donors who omitted key identifying details, at least 90 anonymous donations, four donations from the obviously fake address “999 Anonymous Dr.,” and nearly $5,000 across 40+ transactions from a donor identified only as “Alex, A” who listed a vacant funeral home as their address.
Trump Rewards Campaign Finance Criminals While Targeting Democratic Opponents
Trump Has Systematically Dismantled Campaign Finance Enforcement While Pardoning Convicted Violators
- After retaking office in January 2025, Trump fired a Federal Election Commission commissioner, leaving the agency without a quorum to enforce campaign finance laws, and dropped cases against Republicans accused of accepting foreign money. During his previous term, he pardoned multiple allies convicted of campaign finance crimes including Dinesh D’Souza, Duncan Hunter, and Michael Liberty. He even rewarded Canadian billionaire Barry Zekelman—fined $975,000 for illegal contributions to Trump’s super PAC—with a private dinner to discuss steel tariffs affecting Zekelman’s business interests.
Trump’s Previous Campaigns Benefited From Over $350,000 In Illegal Contributions From Convicted Criminals He Later Pardoned
- Trump’s campaigns received $325,000 from Soviet-born U.S. citizens Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman in 2020, and $25,000 laundered by Republican operative Jesse Benton on behalf of a Russian businessman in 2016—all of whom were later convicted for these illegal straw donor schemes that violate federal laws prohibiting the laundering of campaign contributions to bypass legal restrictions.
A full copy of the letter is available here.
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