Posted on 10/20/2016 2:14:29 PM PDT by digger48
MIAMI (AP) — Conservative activist James O’Keefe has released secretly recorded, selectively edited video footage that includes a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at rallies held by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
After O’Keefe began releasing videos this week, two Democratic operatives stopped working on the presidential race and both the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign denounced the tactics described in the footage. Both said the activities described never took place.
O’Keefe’s group, Project Veritas, promised to release additional videos ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
The central character in the recordings is Scott Foval, a Wisconsin-based liberal operative. He is portrayed in the footage as boasting about his connections to the party and the Clinton campaign, and claiming to have arranged for people, including some who are mentally ill, to incite violence at Trump rallies.
“You can message to draw them out, and draw them out to punch you,” Foval is shown on a video as saying.
Foval also appears to say hired agitators should have their medical and legal bills covered. As with much of the video’s content, it’s impossible to say with certainty what Foval meant, because the videos are edited in a way so that it’s not clear what led to the comment.
In a separate video, Foval muses to an undercover O’Keefe associate about how it would be easier to get away with voter fraud if out-of-state residents drive to the polls in the targeted states in cars rather than being bused in by an organizer. “So you can’t prove that it’s en masse, so it doesn’t tip people off,” he says.
There’s no evidence presented in the video that anything Foval discusses as a theoretical has ever occurred.
Foval told The Associated Press in an email that O’Keefe’s associates had set him up.
“This scheme to cast legitimate organizing activities as a sinister plot is nothing but a ruse,” he said, adding, “O’Keefe’s crew of impostors continued to walk down a path of deception and manipulation.”
O’Keefe and Project Veritas have a long track record of targeting Democratic groups, often by hiding their identities and using hidden cameras. A previous O’Keefe sting led to the demise of ACORN, a community organizing group that O’Keefe portrayed as engaged in criminal activity via hidden camera videos.
O’Keefe was convicted in 2010 as part of a scheme to illegally make recordings at the office of then-Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat.
In this case, Foval appears to have been several steps removed from the presidential race.
In July, the Democratic National Committee paid about $26,000 to Mobilize, the consulting firm of Robert Creamer, a longtime liberal activist based in Washington and the husband of Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky. Creamer was also featured in the latest O’Keefe videos, although not saying anything that appeared to be unethical or illegal
His DNC contract called for him to stage Democratic events outside Trump rallies, and he hired Foval as a subcontractor.
Creamer told the AP that Democrats have, in fact, sought to limit their contact with Trump supporters, requesting police barricades to avoid conflicts. Creamer voluntarily ended his DNC contract on Tuesday, saying he was doing so to avoid becoming an election-time “distraction.”
Americans United for Change, a liberal group that said it had a separate contract with Foval to work on Social Security issues, said it is no longer associated with him. People For the American Way, another group that once employed Foval, said it has not worked with him in months.
Both groups said that what Foval appeared to say in the videos did not reflect their ethical standards.
DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile accepted Creamer’s decision to end his contract work and said in a statement the activities described in the videos “do not in any way comport with our long standing policies on organizing events.”
She also said she does not believe anything “articulated in the video actually occurred.”
Clinton campaign spokesman Zac Petkanas said the campaign supports the decision to cut ties with the operatives ensnared by O’Keefe, saying “some of the language and tactics referenced in the video are troubling even as a theory or proposal never executed.”
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At least O'Keefe and his vids are getting some exposure in places that have ignored him all week..
So why isn’t every interview or story ever broadcast by the lamestream media also referred to as “selectively edited”?
The desperation of the Leftist media to whitewash and surpress anything factual that is damaging to the Democrats is getting very very transparent.
Start with the “Russia hacked the emails nonsense.
A REAL Journalist would reply: “Where they came from doesn’t answer the question of the truthfulness of the emails. You are claiming the emails were altered. Why don’t you release the original emails so we can see what was actually said.”
NBC is far more discredited and questionable than O’Keefe for the George Zimmerman tape alone.
And the turd is out of Madistan...and a queer. Who’d have figured?
https://www.everipedia.com/scott-foval/
<><>There’s no evidence presented in the video that anything Foval discusses as a theoretical has ever occurred. <><>
Didn’t Foval say, on tape, referring to the cancelled Chicago rally, “That was us”?
If all this is a bogus video, as Democrats are trying to say, why was Foval fired and Creamer quit a couple of days later? If I were in Creamer’s shoes, I wouldn’t even think about quitting if everything I did was on the up and up. I would be pounding the table yelling I DIDN’T DO IT...and a battalion of lawyers would be ringing O’keefe’s phone nonstop...
Nope, heads are already rolling, it’s not looking good for Hillary...
The goons are trying a little preemptive “Who you gonna believe us or your lying eyes”.
What I do not get is why some so called republicans seem to feel that instead of not just attacking democrats let alone condemn them for what they have done and will continue to do . They defend them and feel they must preserve the uniparty system.
Boy this Wish TV Makes the 1970s Russian Pravda look like unbiased news. What a bunch or Trash.
No proof? There is video proof even from footage from CNN. But wish TV does not bother to report that do they? Every step of the way Wish TV tries to make O’Keefe look shady and then for good measure they make Foval a Victim.
Wish TV- You SUCK!
OK well Boycott Wish for publishing it and AP for writing it too.
To be fair, WISH was only using an AP article.
But those AP articles are the kind that end up filling the front page of newspapers in Suckwater, USA, like mine.
They’re being forced into covering it, and they’re kicking and screaming all the way.
[B]both the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign denounced the tactics described in the footage. Both said the activities described never took place.
Can’t believe their lying eyes, huh! Foval and Creamer said what they said. How can that be disputed?
The Crooked MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Scum bag media with the "selectively edited" line. Uh, AP, the people who selectively edit are YOUR ILK.
They’re just mad he won’t release the 40+ hours of video so they can go through it and selectively edit parts to discredit him.
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