could it have been done to DISCREDIT the rest of the videos?
“could it have been done to DISCREDIT the rest of the videos?”
That seems to be the outcome.
Perhaps.
That is what the Left did in 2008 when inconvenient truths about Obama's muslim background made the rounds.
They were augmented with some incorrect details (actually about Keith Ellison and others).
Obama's own "Fight the smears" site claimed erroneously that he was a lifelong Christian. Even he acknowledged that he came to Jesus later in life (decades in).