Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump 'Enemies' in Government

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The scheme against Mr. McMaster, revealed in interviews and documents, was one of the most brazen operations of the campaign. https://nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html?smid=tw-share… w/@MarkMazzettiNYT

Some of President Donald J. Trump’s allies focused on trying to ferret out what they saw as a “deep state” inside the government trying to undercut his agenda.

Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in Government
The campaign included planned operations against President Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and F.B.I. employees, according to documents and interviews.
nytimes.com
12:25 PM · May 13, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html

WASHINGTON — A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations.

The campaign included a planned sting operation against Mr. Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and secret surveillance operations against F.B.I. employees, aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks.

The operations against the F.B.I., run by the conservative group Project Veritas, were conducted from a large home in the Georgetown section of Washington that rented for $10,000 per month. Female undercover operatives arranged dates with the F.B.I. employees with the aim of secretly recording them making disparaging comments about Mr. Trump.

The campaign shows the obsession that some of Mr. Trump’s allies had about a shadowy “deep state” trying to blunt his agenda — and the lengths that some were willing to go to try to purge the government of those believed to be disloyal to the president.

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[thucythucy]

1. Yet more Republican projection:

remember all that noise Trump made about President Obama spying on him?

I would think prosecutors ought to go down a list of all his accusations over the years, and investigate to see whether he in fact did all these things himself.

Actually, that probably applies to most every Republican/Trumpist and conspiracy theorist.