Ashley Biden's Diary Was Shown at Trump Fund-Raiser. Weeks Later, Project Veritas Called Her.

[ificandream]

The New York Times/By Michael S. Schmidt and Adam Goldman

A month before the 2020 election, Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s daughter, Ashley, received a call from a man offering help. Striking a friendly tone, the man said that he had found a diary that he believed belonged to Ms. Biden and that he wanted to return it to her.

Ms. Biden had in fact kept a diary the previous year as she recovered from addiction and had stored it and some other belongings at a friend’s home in Florida where she had been living until a few months earlier. The diary’s highly personal contents, if publicly disclosed, could prove an embarrassment or a distraction to her father at a critical moment in the campaign.

She agreed with the caller to send someone to retrieve the diary the next day.

But Ms. Biden was not dealing with a good Samaritan.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/us/politics/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary.html

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It's hilarious that O'Keefe thinks his group of outlaws are journalists. Real journalists don't use the deceptive tactics they do.

[Cartoonist]

1. I can't read more

There's a paywall.

[Bettie]

2. This should allow you to read it

I have a subscription and it has a place to 'gift' an article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/us/politics/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary.html

ETA: I have no idea if it will work or not.

[Cartoonist]

4. Thanks for trying

It looks like that might have worked, but they want me to sign up for an account.

[Bettie]

5. Ah, will keep that in mind

[PJMcK]

6. Here are a few more paragraphs

The man on the other end of the phone worked for Project Veritas, a conservative group that had become a favorite of President Donald J. Trump, according to interviews with people familiar with the sequence of events. From a conference room at the group’s headquarters in Westchester County, N.Y., surrounded by other top members of the group, the caller was seeking to trick Ms. Biden into confirming the authenticity of the diary, which Project Veritas was about to purchase from two intermediaries for $40,000.
The caller did not identify himself as being affiliated with Project Veritas, according to accounts from two people with knowledge of the conversation. By the end of the call, several of the group’s operatives who had either listened in, heard recordings of the call or been told of it believed that Ms. Biden had said more than enough to confirm that it was hers.

The new details of Project Veritas’s effort to establish that the diary was Ms. Biden’s are elements of a still-emerging story about how Trump supporters and a group known for its undercover sting operations worked to expose personal information about the Biden family at a crucial stage of the 2020 campaign.

Drawn from interviews, court filings and other documents, the new information adds further texture to what is known about an episode that has led to a criminal investigation of Project Veritas by federal prosecutors who have suggested they have evidence that the group was complicit in stealing Ms. Biden’s property and in transporting stolen goods across state lines.

And by showing that Project Veritas employed deception rather than traditional journalistic techniques in the way it approached Ms. Biden — the caller identified himself with a fake name — the new accounts could further complicate the organization’s assertions in court filings that it should be treated as a publisher and granted First Amendment protections. Project Veritas regularly carries out undercover stings, surveillance operations and ambush interviews, mostly against liberal groups and journalists.

[Cartoonist]

7. I like the fourth paragraph

Nothing like a good backfire.

[exboyfil]

3. This scene needs to be in a movie

A bunch of Republican fat cats passing around a poor woman's stolen diary at a GOP fundraiser.

That should bring it home to even the most jaded person (or at least one who has a heart).