The James O’Keefe-Donald Trump-Breitbart News Nexus
Matt Gertz
October 21, 2016 6:00 am
Weeks before Election Day, convicted criminal James OKeefe has come forward with a new set of heavily edited video tapes that he claims prove the conservative myth of widespread voter fraud. Republican nominee Donald Trump is already incorporating the charge into what appears to be his campaigns closing argument that he is the victim of a rigged election system, and the only way he can lose is if the election is stolen from him.
Halfway through October, it is clear that Trump is reading from campaign CEO and Breitbart News chief Steve Bannons playbook.
OKeefe, the right-wing videographer behind the nonprofits Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action, is currently rolling out a series of videos based on footage captured by undercover operatives who wore hidden cameras while interviewing Democratic political operatives. The heavily edited videos focus on the Democrats discussing efforts to have activists disrupt Trump events and discussing a proposal made by the OKeefe operatives filming them to engage in a voter fraud plot.
OKeefe has a long history of engaging in criminal, misogynistic, ethically dubious, and bizarre behavior related to his video stunts. He has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering a government office under false pretenses; sought to set up a video sting in which he would lure a female CNN reporter onto a boat filled with sex toys and attempt to seduce the reporter on camera; and had to pay a former video target $100,000 and publicly apologize in a legal settlement.
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