Republican Rep. Keith Self of Texas called for the Treasury to investigate the Islamic Society of North America for allegedly illegal campaign donations.

Self said that the nonprofit violated financial rules by supporting Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat candidate for one of the two U.S. Senate seats from Michigan.

‘Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a nonprofit acting like a campaign committee for the Red-Green Alliance.’

Self cited a report in the Middle East Forum that said the campaign had set up a booth at the Huntington Place hall during an Islamic Society of North America convention.

“The booth displayed large ‘Abdul for U.S. Senate’ and ‘Muslims for Abdul’ campaign banners, urging attendees to elect Mr. El-Sayed. Campaign personnel reportedly distributed campaign literature, solicited donations, and promoted a $50 contribution in exchange for campaign [T-shirts],” the letter read.

“Attendees were also provided with QR codes directing them to donate or volunteer for the campaign, as well as given invitations to a campaign fundraiser,” he added. “Campaign personnel were also reportedly active participants throughout the convention. They were observed waving campaign posters, distributing campaign flyers, and placing campaign materials on seats. A campaign volunteer reportedly distributed literature to attendees as they exited the hall following Mr. El-Sayed’s speech.”

Self wrote that the candidate would be allowed to attend the event but that 501(c)3 rules strictly forbid that group from endorsing the candidate or allowing fundraising for the campaign to occur.

He also pointed out that the group was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case, involving the provision of funding for the Hamas terror group.

Self called on Scott Bessent, the secretary of the Treasury, to investigate the group and review its tax-exempt status.

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“Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a nonprofit acting like a campaign committee for the Red-Green Alliance,” Self wrote.

“These circumstances warrant a thorough examination of whether ISNA participated or intervened in a political campaign,” he concluded.

Blaze News requests for comment from both the Islamic Society of North America and the El-Sayed campaign were not returned in time for publication.

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Years after defending California’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom listed some of the mistakes made.

Newsom made the admissions in a bizarre interview with Jake Tapper of CNN where both appeared to be trying to fly-fish in a river in Montana.

‘I regret that, obviously.’

Tapper asserted that there needed to be a commission to understand the pandemic and what responses worked and which did not work.

“Yeah, look, everyone’s a genius in hindsight, so, you know, coulda woulda,” Newsom responded.

“What would you do differently?” Tapper asked.

“I had a whole chapter just about Purell. We were running around doing price-gouging legislation against Purell, and everyone was thinking it was a Purell-based crisis,” referring to his book.

“People were scrubbing their groceries,” Tapper recalled.

“Yeah! I mean, [Republican Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis was closing down his beaches before we closed ours. The idea that we closed beaches was insane. In hindsight,” Newsom replied.

“Obviously the schools taking too long,” he added. “A lot of districts were open, but the big ones weren’t. L.A. refused. And I regret that, obviously.”

Tapper noted that teachers said that reopening schools too soon would kill them. Then he pressed Newsom on the scandal when he was caught attending a dinner at a ritzy restaurant with little to no pandemic protections.

“What on earth were you thinking?” Tapper asked.

“Just a boneheaded decision, a stupid decision, I just … dialing it in, we were exhausted, friend’s birthday, it was a restaurant that was open the night before.

“And it was just against the spirit of the rules that I was promoting,” he added.

“It was completely legit condemnation.”

He said he had a mask when he walked in and when he walked out of the restaurant.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace lambasted the governor in comments to Blaze News.

“I don’t think there’s anything sincere about Gavin Newsom whatsoever except his political ambitions,” said Deace. “So I suspect this is only being said as a means by which to triangulate as the Democrat nominee in 2028, when he’d likely be running against someone seen as an extension of Trump, who was president at the advent of the scamdemic.”

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Newsom has admitted that he’s looking at a possible campaign for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.

The entire video of the fly-fishing interview can be viewed on CNN’s YouTube channel.

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