Posted on 09/23/2022 9:43:39 AM PDT by semimojo
A federal jury has found Project Veritas, a conservative group often accused of using deceptive tactics, liable for violating wiretapping laws and misrepresenting itself in an undercover effort to target Democratic political consultants.
Jurors in Washington on Thursday awarded $120,000 to a member of Democracy Partners, co-founded by self-described progressive strategist Robert Creamer.
Democracy Partners claimed it had been infiltrated by a Project Veritas operative who lied about her name and background to obtain an internship during the 2016 presidential campaign, and secretly recorded conversations while working there.
The firm and Creamer said Project Veritas used "heavily edited" footage in videos that falsely suggested they conspired to incite violence at then-Republican candidate Donald Trump's rallies and schemed to promote voter fraud.
According to the complaint, the espionage cost the plaintiffs, who supported Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, at least $500,000 of contracts.
Project Veritas said it did nothing wrong and will appeal…
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Who’s representing PV, Lionel Hutz, the attorney from the Simpson’s?
A $120k award is nothing
Jurors in Washington...
$120k is low given the claim was at least $500k. This is a DC jury in a political case. Do those ever go against Democrats?
Filthy Leftists, every single one of them. All of them. A monkeypox on every single one of them.
Lets not focus on the fact that they bragged about sending mentally ill people and union thugs to conservative events to stir up violence, which is (IIRC) what they found in THAT event. I despise these people that Veritas infiltrated.
Americans can’t win in the courts in this country. It’s ignorant to even try.
Will be overturned, especially if they keep taking hot until the SC hears it. These judges on lower courts are allowing anything without holding back, but limiting the defendants like PV their right to a fair defense.
This will be appealed and eventually over turned.
Yet the left could care less if it is, it is the optics and the ability to uses the verdict to scare others from doing what PV does.
Gee, no mention of Hillary paying Robert Creamer to hire union thugs to beat up Trump supporters at his rallies.
Creamers was/is married to rat congresswoman Jan Shakowsky (sp?) of Chicago.
Jurors in Washington ..............................
The only person they can find peers for in a DC jury is Stepin Fetchit.
Dems and Deep State always win sadly..
fixed it...
EXACTLY! Well said!
The heavily edited video was sliced up as a clip and
delivered to the public, because it contained the
infraction.
Why should they show a half hour clip that didn't
exonerate the culprits.
D. C. Juries are a disaster waiting to happen.
They could charge Trump with anything they liked, and get
a conviction there.
James is already appealing. no worries. go Project Veritas!
Hypothetical example only:
If a video was 15 minutes long, and only 30 seconds of it
showed a person shooting a business owner, his attorney
would say it was heavily edited to show a very biased
untruth.
A D.C. jury would vote not guilty.
Can Trump’s team get the trial moved outside of DC?
I’m now assuming they’ll indict him, though don’t know what for.
He’ll win. Undercover journalism is protected under the 1st Amendment.
The jury somehow found that journalist have a “fiduciary responsibility” to those they interview. It’ll get overturned, most likely with a directed verdict, in my opinion.
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