ON HIDDEN CAMERA: Former Project Veritas Board Member Matthew Tyrmand Admits Being An FBI Informant

It's a roughly 10-15 minute investigative piece (based on typical OMG format) with hidden camera/street confrontation footage. As of right now (early Feb 11, 2026), it has around 44-45K views and several thousand likes. Key content summary

James O'Keefe confronts Matthew Tyrmand (a former board member of Project Veritas) in Miami Beach. In the footage, Tyrmand allegedly admits on hidden camera to:

Serving as a confidential informant for the FBI and Southern District of New York (SDNY).

Providing information ("tons of sh*t") about O'Keefe and other conservative figures/organizations in attempts to get O'Keefe investigated or imprisoned.

Making violent threats, including hyperbolic statements about wanting to "kill" O'Keefe (calling him "one of the most evil people"), wishing he "get shot," and using O'Keefe's book Breakthrough for target practice by shooting bullets into the cover (specifically the heart area).

Boasting about having extensive contacts ("thousands of sources") in the DOJ, CIA, IRS, and legacy media (e.g., New York Times) to expose or target people.

O'Keefe ties this to his 2023 ouster/suspension from Project Veritas, alleged internal misconduct (e.g., financial issues, employee treatment), and mentions filing a restraining order against Tyrmand in Palm Beach County. The video frames Tyrmand as a "rat" who betrayed the conservative movement while claiming to pursue "truth and justice."

The tone is classic O'Keefe-style gotcha journalism: accusatory, dramatic editing, and direct confrontation.

Context & reactions This appears tied to long-running drama between O'Keefe and Project Veritas post-2023 split, with mutual accusations of betrayal, financial impropriety, and informant activity. The video has circulated quickly on places like 4chan's /pol/ board, where it's discussed in highly charged terms (often with antisemitic framing around Tyrmand). Viewer comments range from strong support for O'Keefe exposing a "traitor" to calls for investigations/arrests over the threats.

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"...Yes, he means Charlie Kirk..."

Really? Charlie Kirk was totally corrupt?

Well. If there was any doubt this removes it. (Not that there was any doubt from the first words out of his mouth.)

This turd is a far Leftist with debilitating TDS. It is my guess that he was planted on the Project Veritas Board, and worked with others to destroy both James O'Keefe and Project Veritas. Just seeing the name "Trump" brings spittle to his lips, and a Christian like Charlie Kirk-well...that is even worse to people like him on the Left than Trump, if it is even possible.

What an absolute human stain. Disgusting abomination of a human. The execrable piece of human waste was caught with every single thing O'Keefe recorded on him, and could play back the receipts. What a dumb ass. What a complete moron. Got caught running his mouth to impress a woman he no doubt regarded as a piece of tail he could impress into a bed with his profane and arrogant blow-hardedness. And he was on the board of Project Veritas. You would think he would be wary of this. You would think he would know. Apparently thinking with his little head.

And I fully appreciated that it was obvious-OBVIOUS-that O'Keefe carried a chip on his shoulder about this, and had his ducks in a row.

There was no wiggle room at all. No doubt, he will cry he was taken out of context, the video was doctored, blah, blah, blah.

I had to laugh. It looked like it took a while for his Uber to show up, and O'Keefe followed him around. Almost made me wonder if O'Keefe's team found a way to delay his Uber ride.

That was a great video.

"...Sounds like a lot of ‘board members’ - leftists who’ve infiltrated and then attempt to bring down or take over an organization..."

That was my thought exactly after seeing this video. I admit to not knowing the ins-and-outs of what happened to him at Project Veritas, but It always seemed like a coup to me.

But I didn't know enough about it, and thought it could have been a coup motivated by greed.

It wasn't.

It was an ideological coup, run by someone high in the Democrat Party or Deep State who accurately saw James O'Keefe as a deadly threat to them with his ongoing hidden videos.

They are right to believe that.

I had a favorite as described below from April 2021 (I liked it so much I created a transcript from it to post on FR):

O'KEEFE: Hey, Jeff Zucker, are you there? Hey, uh, this is James O'Keefe, uh, we've been listening to your CNN calls for ah, basically two months recording everything, and I just want to ask you a few questions if you have a minute. Do you still feel you're "The Most Trusted Name in News" because I have to say, from what I've been hearing on these phone calls, I don't know about that, I mean, we've got a lot of recordings that indicate you're not really that independent of a journalist.

ZUCKER: Okay, um, thank you for, ah, thank you ah, for ah your comments. Um, so, everybody, in light of that, I think what we'll do is, we'll...we'll set up uh, uh, a new system and we'll uh, we'll be back with you...we'll do the rest of the calls, uh, a little bit later...

At this point, O'Keefe looks right at the camera and makes this hilarious face:

O'KEEFE: We're going to release those recordings today at seven o'clock so stay tuned, it is going to be fun.

ZUCKER: Thanks everybody, have a good day...

O'KEEFE: Yeah, you too. So, um, you heard me just talk to the president of CNN, Jeff Zucker, and inform him that we are going to release a number of recordings today, I uh, unmuted myself into the conference line and they're still on there, they're listening to me right now. Uh, this is being live streamed for those of you still on the call and we recorded for a while and we have clips of various producers talking, the president talking, describing uh, their motives, describing uh, their political philosophy, describing how they don't cover certain things and certain political parties tell them to cover things a certain way, lots of little clips that takes us into the minds and hearts of our people and powers that be that inform us because government is downstream from media. So, we're going to releasing these tape thanks to one of our sources, one of our brave insiders who has given us this information. And um, as you can see, they're still milling about on the call, they're listening to me right now...

SYSTEM SOUNDS OF PARTICIPANTS IMMEDIATELY LEAVING THE CALL: Beep Beep...Beep Beep...Beep Beep...Beep Beep...Beep Beep

Brilliant! Just Brilliant!

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