Opinion

James O’Keefe Tried To Sting WaPo With Fake Moore Sexual Assault Accuser. It Went Wildly Wrong.

Ben Shapiro

On Monday, The Washington Post announced that it had busted James O’Keefe, the undercover sting journalist responsible for the federal defunding of the Leftist community organizing machine ACORN. O’Keefe reportedly deployed a woman to lie to the Post, claiming to be an old sexual assault victim of Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore — she told the Post she was impregnated by Moore at 15 years old and that he paid for an abortion. But the Post investigated, found out she was lying, and then traced her back to O’Keefe, who apparently was attempting a sting operation aimed at showing that the Post would run unverified sexual assault accusations.

Here’s the Post reporting:

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