The Latest Subject Of A James O’Keefe Sting Wants The Full Videos Released
One of the men seen in a new conservative sting video, which purports to expose Democratic attempts to stir up political chaos and commit voter fraud, is calling for the release of the full, unedited tape.
Bob Creamer, a longtime Democratic operative who works closely with the Democratic National Committee, says he is the victim of an elaborate and deceptive smear campaign by the well-known conservative provocateur James O’Keefe. In some of his first comments since that video surfaced earlier this week, Creamer said O’Keefe’s tapes make a misleading case, and that if the full footage were made public, those deceptions would be evident.
“Of course they should have all the raw footage up. Everything. People should be able to see the whole thing,” Creamer told The Huffington Post. “Our firm and a number of others have been victims of a substantial, monthslong spying operation run by James O’Keefe that was pretty sophisticated.”
This week, the fruits of that “spying operation” were made public when O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action Fund published two videos. The first focused on Democratic operative Scott Foval, who is seen boasting of his efforts to disrupt Donald Trump campaign events through “bird-dogging” ― the act of placing your own activists in prime locations at the opposition’s events. The second video shows Foval describing what sounds like a voter fraud scheme, in which a campaign could send fleets of out-of-state voters into a place like Wisconsin, equipping them with fake corporate IDs, pay stubs and cars with Wisconsin plates, in order to deliver the state to Hillary Clinton. Other Democrats are featured elsewhere in the video, apparently either discussing that scheme or entertaining other nefarious campaign acts.
In conservative circles, the videos caused a stir, fed in large part by Donald Trump’s campaign, which brought O’Keefe himself to the third presidential debate on Wednesday so he could shame reporters for avoiding the issue.
Trump, in fact, gave O’Keefe’s outfit $10,000 through his Trump Foundation, while the CEO of his campaign, Steve Bannon, regularly featured O’Keefe’s work when he was executive director of Breitbart.
But like much of what Project Veritas produces, it’s not clear whether or to what extent the content was manipulated before it made its way to YouTube. It’s also tough to tell how significant the videos’ “revelations” actually are.
As The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel notes,
several of the allegations appear to be overblown. Bird-dogging, for starters, is a fairly well-known tactic, common enough at campaign events that savvy reporters often see through it. And the idea that Foval was responsible, as he boasts, for stirring up a raucous, occasionally bloody protest outside a Trump rally in Chicago in March is at odds with coverage of the incident, which credited University of Illinois students with shutting the rally down.
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The portrayal was total bull$#@!, and these poor people were taken out of context,” Creamer said.
On Thursday,
The New York Times contacted an activist whom Foval claimed to have trained to deliberately instigate a violent reaction from a Trump crowd. The activist told the Times she’d actually gone to the rally of her own accord and without protest training.
As for the voter fraud video, many of the details of the proposed scheme just don’t make sense. Moreover, in the video, Creamer is seen and heard expressing doubt about the legality of such a scheme, before Foval, in a separate moment, says he could try to do it without Creamer’s knowledge.
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