Trump Donated To Project Veritas
President Donald Trump donated to an agency with a history of trying to take down liberal organizations, an agency that is now accused of trying to dupe the Washington Post with a fake Roy Moore claim in an undercover operation.
The newspaper found out that a woman was lying after contacting reporters with a false claim that she'd become pregnant after having sex with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore when she was a teenage girl. She claimed he then took her to get an abortion.
Reporters and researchers for The Post traced the woman back to Project Veritas, a controversial group known for its undercover "sting" operations that often target liberal ideals or groups. The organization has been behind controversial and edited videos that have targeted CNN and Planned Parenthood.
The controversial group also has ties to the commander in chief.
About a month before Trump announced his candidacy for president, his charity, the Trump Foundation, gave $10,000 to Project Veritas.The March 2015 donation likely helped fund filmmaker and conservative activist James O'Keefe in creating a video claiming to show Hillary Clinton supporters were paid $1,500 to cause violence during Trump's rallies, which were often interrupted by protestors and fights. The video was released in October 2016.
Trump mentioned the videos and its claims while debating Clinton, but never mentioned that he donated to the organization that made them. "They hired people. They paid them $1,500, and they're on tape saying be violent, cause fights, do bad things," Trump said, citing the video by O'Keefe.
The Post found the woman, who said her name was Jaime Phillips, had posted a GoFundMe fundraising page, asking for cash and flaunting that she had a new job where she'd work to "combat the lies and deceit of the liberal MSM (mainstream media)."
While reporters saw the woman go into the New York office of Project Veritas, officials with the group, including O’Keefe, would not answer questions about whether the woman worked for them.
Instead, O’Keefe posted a video Monday evening showing employees of the newspaper talking about The Post and its thoughts on President Trump. The undercover video was attempting to show a "hidden agenda" but didn't appear to hold any bombshells.
It showed one reporter talking about the difference between editorials and news articles on the president and his thoughts on how other outlets cover Trump. The footage also showed the paper's director of product talking about how they came up with the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and that without Trump, traffic to the website would probably drop significantly.
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Trump, the guy who is famous for lies, funds O'Keefe, a guy famous for altering videos, who'd a thunk it.
Wow, really disappointed here, Trump caught with his hand on the scale in Alabama using Project Veritas and, no one cares.
That's pretty slim compared to what we know his opponent did.
And, what did Hillary do for Doug Jones? Did she hire someone to smear a newspaper or, a news organization? Please, enlighten us, with verifiable links.
“The real Russia scandal? Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up.”
And, that has to do with the election in Alabama how? Please get on the topic at hand or, go away.
What fake Russian dossier are you referring to?
Do you have any proof that the Clintons paid the for those?
Most of us aren't surprised and Trumps supporters can't defend it thus no comments from the peanut gallery.
One of the problems with the new Newstalkers is that "liberal" seeds are often ignored, even by the liberals. It seems we have a bunch of people that would rather play defense on right wing seeds than get progressive content to the top of the front page arrays. Maybe that is the way Newsvine rolled for them, I don't know. Of course you are not going to get the RW onto a seed like this, for the most part.
This story is damaging to O 'Keefe , but his fabrication factory has been damaged before and it keeps going. I read today that he has a full time staff of 16 and a 5 million dollar per year budget. Conservative money is flowing into these bogus fake news "sting" operations.
And, it is folks like us that need to expose them every chance we get.
Speaking of project veritas.... The Post caught them trying to discredit the post.. Effing priceless!