Twitter suspended Project Veritas founder James O&#8217;Keefe on Tuesday for reporting on Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign.
O&#8217;Keefe tweeted on January 22: &#8220;RETRACTION REQUEST, @daveweigel of @washingtonpost. The subjects featured in #Expose2020 are not &#8216;Sanders volunteers&#8217; Both Kyle Jurek and Martin Weissgerber are STILL paid employees of the @BernieSanders campaign. Kindly retract another factually inaccurate bit of reporting.&#8221;
In its message to O&#8217;Keefe, Twitter claimed that O&#8217;Keefe violated the company&#8217;s rule about &#8220;posting private information,&#8221; adding: &#8220;You may not publish or post other people&#8217;s private information without their express authorization and permission.&#8221;
O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s tweet also included a screenshot of what appeared to be publicly available campaign documents that showed what the Sanders campaign paid Jurek.
&#8220;The tweet in question was sent on January 22 and was a retraction request to WAPO reporter Dave Weigel who had inaccurately reported about our #Expose2020 Sanders campaign investigation,&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;Weigel said the subjects of our investigations were campaign volunteers, not true.&#8221;
&#8220;To prove the inaccuracy our Tweet linked to page found on the Federal Election Commission website showing the &#8216;volunteer&#8217; was in fact a paid staffer of the Sanders campaign. The Post reporter retracted his story,&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe continued. &#8220;The information we reported is in the public domain, there is nothing &#8216;private&#8217; about it.&#8221;
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O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas has extensively reported on extreme statements that have allegedly been made by paid members of Sanders&#8217; campaign in Iowa and South Carolina.
In South Carolina, Project Veritas provided the following highlights of things that Sanders campaign field organizer Mason Baird allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanders-campaign-rocked-again-more-staff-caught-advocating-violence-against-opponents">said</a>:
<ul>
<li>“I’ve canvassed with someone who’s an anarchist, and with someone who’s a Marxist-Leninist. So, we attract radical, truly radical people in the campaign … obviously that’s not outward-facing.”</li>
<li>“A lot of those people who do that kind of work, are … their politics fall well outside of the American sort of norm. So, they’re Marxist-Leninist, they’re anarchists, they’re these types of folks, and um, and they have more of a mind for direct action, for engaging in politics outside of the electoral system.”</li>
<li>“A lot of the stories we’re told in the United States about, you know, the gulags and the persecution of the Kulaks and things like that are exaggerated … we certainly don’t have, uh, a straight perspective on that stuff here in America.”</li>
<li>“We would need a federal government and a labor movement that is working together to strip power away from capitalists and preferably directing that violence towards property.”</li>
<li>“It would, it’s gonna take, you know, it’s gonna take militancy … like a militant labor movement that’s willing to … strike, and if necessary, you know, just destroy property and things like that.”</li>
<li>“… after we abolish landlords, we don’t have to kill them …”</li>
<li>“… once we break up Google, YouTube, Facebook,  nationalize these things, then that would be a huge thing forward so far as education stuff goes.”</li>
</ul>
In South Carolina, Project Veritas provided the following highlights of things that Sanders campaign field organizer Daniel Taylor allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanders-campaign-rocked-again-more-staff-caught-advocating-violence-against-opponents">said</a>:
<ul>
<li>“For me personally, I have no problem going all in on the campaign stuff because you’re planting a seed … yeah, the whole socialist thing four years ago was a whole lot more toxic than it is today …”</li>
<li>“We don’t want to scare people off, you first have to feel it out before you get into the crazy stuff … You know we were talking about more extreme organizations like Antifa, you were talking about, Yellow Vests, all that but we’re kinda keeping that on the back-burner for now.”</li>
<li>“We have all this momentum, where do we go, regardless of the outcome, after it’s all over? Change won’t come easily, regardless. Even if Bernie is elected, change will not come swiftly or easily, so the connections we make now in the campaign with people, and volunteers, it’s important we retain that regardless of the outcome. It’s unfortunate that we have to make plans for extreme action but like I said, they’re not going to give it to us even if Bernie is elected.”</li>
</ul>
In South Carolina, Project Veritas provided the following highlights of things that Sanders campaign field organizer Martin Weissgerber allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bernie-staffer-allegedly-promotes-violence-kill-the-rich-put-republicans-in-camps">said</a>:
<ul>
<li>“Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”</li>
<li>“Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps.”</li>
<li>“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests. I’m ready … I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting. … I’m not — no cap, bro. I’ll straight up — I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro. … I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”</li>
<li>“I think I was radicalized from the day; first day I was born … my dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium … he took part in Paris ’68 and all that, which is really cool. … I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist … in my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t. … I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, anarcho-syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.”</li>
<li>“Oh, yeah. My dad is real; my mom is, but my mom is really left as well. But she can’t make her views known, because she works for WBUR, which is NPR, so she’s more held back. But you know … But then I went, I started studying it. That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his–., Soviet history … I became the resident Marxist. … But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”</li>
<li>“I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible … I mean, for women’s rights, the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”</li>
<li>“The first gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a Canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg … a long way, if you look on a map … and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like ‘I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.’ He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, ‘I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.’ He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota … and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.”</li>
<li>“Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world … AK-47 … the destroyer of imperialism and coloniali[sm] … that’s why I want to get it [AK-47] tattooed on me.”</li>
<li>“So, do we just cease — do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the judicial branch, and have something Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people, make all decisions for the climate? I mean, I’m serious.”</li>
</ul>
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Twitter Suspends James O’Keefe For Reporting On Democrat Bernie Sanders

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2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) campaign was rocked again on Tuesday after James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released more undercover footage exposing paid Sanders campaign staffers appearing to advocate for violence against political opponents.
The new video from Project Veritas allegedly shows Sanders campaign South Carolina field organizers Mason Baird and Daniel Taylor advocating for &#8220;extreme action&#8221; and &#8220;militancy&#8221; against political opponents and private property.
Project Veritas provided the following highlights of things that Baird said:
<ul>
<li>“I’ve canvassed with someone who’s an anarchist, and with someone who’s a Marxist-Leninist. So, we attract radical, truly radical people in the campaign … obviously that’s not outward-facing.”</li>
<li>“A lot of those people who do that kind of work, are … their politics fall well outside of the American sort of norm. So, they&#8217;re Marxist-Leninist, they&#8217;re anarchists, they&#8217;re these types of folks, and um, and they have more of a mind for direct action, for engaging in politics outside of the electoral system.”</li>
<li>“A lot of the stories we’re told in the United States about, you know, the gulags and the persecution of the Kulaks and things like that are exaggerated … we certainly don&#8217;t have, uh, a straight perspective on that stuff here in America.”</li>
<li>“We would need a federal government and a labor movement that is working together to strip power away from capitalists and preferably directing that violence towards property.”</li>
<li>“It would, it&#8217;s gonna take, you know, it&#8217;s gonna take militancy … like a militant labor movement that’s willing to … strike, and if necessary, you know, just destroy property and things like that.”</li>
<li>“… after we abolish landlords, we don’t have to kill them …”</li>
<li>“… once we break up Google, YouTube, Facebook,  nationalize these things, then that would be a huge thing forward so far as education stuff goes.”</li>
</ul>
Project Veritas provided the the following highlights of things that Taylor said:
<ul>
<li>“For me personally, I have no problem going all in on the campaign stuff because you’re planting a seed … yeah, the whole socialist thing four years ago was a whole lot more toxic than it is today …”</li>
<li>“We don’t want to scare people off, you first have to feel it out before you get into the crazy stuff &#8230; You know we were talking about more extreme organizations like Antifa, you were talking about, Yellow Vests, all that but we’re kinda keeping that on the back-burner for now.”</li>
<li>“We have all this momentum, where do we go, regardless of the outcome, after it’s all over? Change won’t come easily, regardless. Even if Bernie is elected, change will not come swiftly or easily, so the connections we make now in the campaign with people, and volunteers, it’s important we retain that regardless of the outcome. It’s unfortunate that we have to make plans for extreme action but like I said, they’re not going to give it to us even if Bernie is elected.”</li>
</ul>
The new release from Project Veritas comes after the group released undercover <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-bernies-a-legit-socialist-masquerading-as-a-democratic-socialist">videos</a> involving a paid Sanders campaign staffer in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-people-who-push-back-on-revolution-should-expect-a-violent-response">Iowa</a> and in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bernie-staffer-allegedly-promotes-violence-kill-the-rich-put-republicans-in-camps">South Carolina</a> in recent weeks that showed the staffers allegedly advocating for violence against political opponents. The Sanders campaign has largely ignored media requests on the matter and even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-calls-police-on-reporters-for-asking-questions-about-his-staff-talking-about-killing-people">called the police</a> on journalists who pressed for a response from the campaign on the videos.
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Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders holds Town Hall In Perry, Iowa

Sanders Campaign Rocked Again: More Staff Caught Advocating Violence Against Opponents

2020 Election

Communism

Democratic Party

Media

Project Veritas

Socialism

South Carolina

Violence

Bernie Sanders&#8217; presidential campaign in South Carolina contacted law enforcement officials on Thursday after undercover journalists with James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas pressed the campaign to answer questions about violent remarks made by a paid Sanders campaign staffer.
The move by the Sanders campaign to call the police on reporters for asking them tough questions comes after Project Veritas released video earlier this week that allegedly showed Sanders field organizer Martin Weissgerber saying he wanted to kill wealthy people and throw Republicans into camps.
The police officer who responded told Project Veritas, &#8220;They said they are going to have no comment. If you try to make contact with them, it’s no comment &#8230; it’s one of those things where they wish he hadn’t said that, but they’re standing by him.&#8221;
WATCH:
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Campaign calls the police on <a href="https://twitter.com/PVeritas_Action?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PVeritas_Action</a>. 
Officer: ‘They said they are going to have no comment. If you try to make contact with them it’s no comment&#8230;it’s one of those things where they wish he hadn’t said that, but they’re standing by him’ <a href="https://t.co/JF3KJfW0zI">pic.twitter.com/JF3KJfW0zI</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1220345634655477760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bernie-staffer-allegedly-promotes-violence-kill-the-rich-put-republicans-in-camps">Quotes</a> from Weissgerber that were featured in the video provided by Project Veritas include:
<ul>
<li>“Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”</li>
<li>“Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps.”</li>
<li>“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests. I’m ready … I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting. … I’m not — no cap, bro. I’ll straight up — I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro. … I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”</li>
<li>“I think I was radicalized from the day; first day I was born … my dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium … he took part in Paris ’68 and all that, which is really cool. … I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist … in my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t. … I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, anarcho-syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.”</li>
<li>“Oh, yeah. My dad is real; my mom is, but my mom is really left as well. But she can’t make her views known, because she works for WBUR, which is NPR, so she’s more held back. But you know … But then I went, I started studying it. That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his–., Soviet history … I became the resident Marxist. … But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”</li>
<li>“I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible … I mean, for women’s rights, the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”</li>
<li>“The first gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a Canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg … a long way, if you look on a map … and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like ‘I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.’ He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, ‘I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.’ He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota … and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.”</li>
<li>“Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world … AK-47 … the destroyer of imperialism and coloniali[sm] … that’s why I want to get it [AK-47] tattooed on me.”</li>
<li>“So, do we just cease — do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the judicial branch, and have something Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people, make all decisions for the climate? I mean, I’m serious.”</li>
</ul>
WATCH:
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BREAKING: 2ND PAID STAFFER PRAISES GULAGS
South Carolina <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Field Organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/martinthemanic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@martinthemanic</a>: &quot;I&#39;ll straight up get armed&#8230;I&#39;m ready for the &quot;f**king revolution&quot;; &quot;Guillotine the rich&quot;; &#39;send Republicans to re-education camps&#39;
FULL RELEASE 12:00PM<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Expose2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Expose2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/tUCeKEY6aM">pic.twitter.com/tUCeKEY6aM</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1219620664505593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bernie Campaign Calls Police On Reporters For Asking Questions About His Staff Talking About Killing People

Police

Soviet Union

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released new bombshell undercover footage on Tuesday that appeared to show another paid member of 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign promoting violence against political opponents and against successful people.
The undercover video produced by Project Veritas allegedly shows Martin Weissgerber, South Carolina field organizer for the campaign, talking about wanting to kill wealthy people and wanting to throw Republicans into camps.
Qutoes from the video provided by Project Veritas include:
<ul>
<li>“Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”</li>
<li>“Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps.”</li>
<li>“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests. I’m ready … I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting. … I’m not — no cap, bro. I’ll straight up — I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro. … I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”</li>
<li>“I think I was radicalized from the day; first day I was born … my dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium … he took part in Paris &#8217;68 and all that, which is really cool. … I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist … in my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t. … I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, anarcho-syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.”</li>
<li>“Oh, yeah. My dad is real; my mom is, but my mom is really left as well. But she can’t make her views known, because she works for WBUR, which is NPR, so she’s more held back. But you know … But then I went, I started studying it. That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his–., Soviet history … I became the resident Marxist. … But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”</li>
<li>“I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible … I mean, for women’s rights, the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”</li>
<li>“The first gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a Canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg &#8230; a long way, if you look on a map … and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like ‘I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.’ He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, ‘I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.’ He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota … and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.”</li>
<li>“Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world … AK-47 &#8230; the destroyer of imperialism and coloniali[sm] … that’s why I want to get it [AK-47] tattooed on me.”</li>
<li>“So, do we just cease — do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the judicial branch, and have something Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people, make all decisions for the climate? I mean, I’m serious.”</li>
</ul>
The stunning footage comes a week after Project Veritas released footage of Sanders campaign Iowa field organizer Kyle Jurek allegedly making numerous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-bernies-a-legit-socialist-masquerading-as-a-democratic-socialist">inflammatory</a> statements, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-people-who-push-back-on-revolution-should-expect-a-violent-response">promoting violence</a> against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-staff-free-education-about-indoctrinating-people-gulags-not-bad-cities-burn-if-trump-wins">political opponents</a>.
WATCH:
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BREAKING: 2ND PAID STAFFER PRAISES GULAGS
South Carolina <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Field Organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/martinthemanic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@martinthemanic</a>: &quot;I&#39;ll straight up get armed&#8230;I&#39;m ready for the &quot;f**king revolution&quot;; &quot;Guillotine the rich&quot;; &#39;send Republicans to re-education camps&#39;
FULL RELEASE 12:00PM<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Expose2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Expose2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/tUCeKEY6aM">pic.twitter.com/tUCeKEY6aM</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1219620664505593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend MLK Rally At South Carolina Capitol Dome

Another Bernie Staffer Allegedly Promotes Violence: Kill The Rich, Put Republicans In Camps

President Donald Trump and journalist James O&#8217;Keefe hinted on Sunday that something big is about to drop on Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as the 78-year-old socialist has surged in recent polls.
Trump tweeted, &#8220;Wow! Crazy Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls, looking very good against his opponents in the Do Nothing Party. So what does this all mean? Stay tuned!&#8221;
O&#8217;Keefe quickly followed up to Trump&#8217;s tweet, writing, &#8220;Stay tuned everyone. Something very big is going to happen. The first bombshell tape is going to drop this week.&#8221;
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Stay tuned everyone. Something very big is going to happen. 
The first bombshell tape is going to drop this week. <a href="https://t.co/BFGnoCeJE7">https://t.co/BFGnoCeJE7</a> <a href="https://t.co/fJzoguHplM">https://t.co/fJzoguHplM</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1216437736628019203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/01/12/election-2020-bernie-sanders-polling-momentum-has-team-eyeing-win/4421883002/">reported</a> on Sunday that Sanders &#8220;is solidly second in most national polls behind Biden, and he either leads or is tied in recent polls in the first two states that vote, Iowa and New Hampshire.&#8221;
In a recent <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/11/bernie-sanders-trump-jim-messina-097578">interview</a> with Politico, Jim Messina, Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, warned Democrats that if Sanders is the Democratic nominee that Democrats will struggle across the board in national elections.
“If I were a campaign manager for Donald Trump and I look at the field, I would very much want to run against Bernie Sanders,” Messina said. “I think the contrast is the best. He can say, ‘I’m a business guy, the economy’s good and this guy’s a socialist.’ I think that contrast for Trump is likely one that he’d be excited about in a way that he wouldn’t be as excited about Biden or potentially Mayor Pete or some of the more Midwestern moderate candidates.”
“From a general election perspective, socialism is not going to be what Democrats are going to want to defend,” Messina continued. “If you’re the Democratic nominee for the Montana Senate race, you don’t want to spend the election talking about socialism.”
Daily Wire Editor at Large Josh Hammer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-bernie-sanders-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">wrote</a> the following about Sanders&#8217; views on the economy and healthcare back in September:
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<li>Economy: Sanders holds far-left views on economics that place him barely, if at all, to the right of an authentic European-style socialist. He supports punitive taxation and massive redistribution to mollify the purported scourge of wealth and income inequality in America. He has consistently supported substantial tax hikes on income, capital gains, and estates alike. Sanders supports substantial regulation of the financial services sector and large-scale government spending on infrastructure programs. He has generally opposed free trade due to reasons of labor protectionism. He has been critical of the Federal Reserve for allegedly empowering the wealthy. Sanders supports increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15. He has taken a heavy-handed view of antitrust enforcement.</li>
<li>Health Care: Sanders is a longtime support of single-payer socialized medicine, and in many ways is the intellectual progenitor for the current Democratic Party candidate trend of favoring “Medicare for All.” He has often been critical of Obamacare for not going far enough with respect to health care coverage for all uncovered Americans. Sanders has never indicated any willingness to structurally reform fiscally ruinous health care-related entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.</li>
</ul>
This report has been updated to include additional information.

Trump, James O’Keefe Hint Something Big About To Drop On Bernie Sanders

CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter — who is routinely described by critics online as &#8220;<a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/07/17/the-medias-janitor-strikes-again-redsteeze-takes-brian-stelter-to-the-woodshed-over-his-defense-of-cnn-giving-richard-spence-air-time/">the media&#8217;s janitor</a>&#8221; — defended ABC News on Tuesday night in his newsletter after James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released a video in which an ABC anchor reveals that the left-wing network covered up a bombshell story about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and former Democratic President Bill Clinton.
Stelter refused to give any credit to O&#8217;Keefe or Project Veritas for their latest video and instead attempted to dismiss them by referring to them as a &#8220;right-wing, pro-Trump activist group.&#8221;
Stelter quoted an article from far-left Vox, which gave O&#8217;Keefe and Project Veritas credit, by removing that portion of what Vox reported. Stelter refused to report on the bombshell story on CNN&#8217;s website and he buried the story several hundred words deep into his newsletter.
Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll called out Stelter&#8217;s actions, tweeting: &#8220;Why is qualifying the messenger — &#8216;pro trump activist group&#8217; — necessary here? Who cares? She’s on tape saying ABC spiked the story.&#8221;
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Why is qualifying the messenger — “pro trump activist group” — necessary here? Who cares? She’s on tape saying ABC spiked the story. <a href="https://t.co/yYROyUlNzl">https://t.co/yYROyUlNzl</a>
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1191952907815522308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
Stelter falsely claimed that &#8220;Robach clearly thinks she&#8217;s just speaking privately to a colleague.&#8221;
Journalist Yashar Ali dismantled this notion on Tuesday, writing on Twitter: &#8220;ABC News&#8217; comms team let a statement go out saying that a moment where Amy was on set, in front of cameras, and wearing a mic was a &#8216;private moment&#8217;? Amy is a total pro who has been in this business for two decades&#8230;she knew where she was and it certainly wasn&#8217;t private.&#8221;
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ABC News&#8217; comms team let a statement go out saying that a moment where Amy was on set, in front of cameras, and wearing a mic was a &#8220;private moment&#8221;?
Amy is a total pro who has been in this business for two decades&#8230;she knew where she was and it certainly wasn&#8217;t private. <a href="https://t.co/GlCh16e0mP">https://t.co/GlCh16e0mP</a>
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1191838035803029505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
An insider from ABC News leaked the footage which shows anchor Amy Robach venting to other people on set that she was angry that other places were breaking all the stories on Epstein because she had the story three years ago but did not publish it because the network was worried it would impact their ability to interview the royal family. Robach stated:
<blockquote>I’ve had the story for three years. I’ve had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told who’s Jeffrey Epstein, no one knows who that is, this is a stupid story. Then the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will, that also quashed the story. And then Alan Dershowitz was also implicated in it because of the planes. She told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years. We convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything. [emphasis added]
I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it’s all coming out and it’s like these new relevant revelations and I freaking had all of it. I’m so pissed right now, like every day I get more and more pissed because I’m just like, oh my god, what we had was unreal. Other women backing it up. Brad Edwards the attorney three years ago saying like, ‘there will come a day for we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known.’ I had it all three years ago.</blockquote>
NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck unloaded on Stelter online, writing: &#8220;Annnd here&#8217;s Stelter defending ABC. The media janitor again suggested WE the people are the problem.&#8221;
&#8220;Stelter&#8217;s hackery is so steep he couldn&#8217;t even bring himself to mention @JamesOKeefeIII or @Project_Veritas by name,&#8221; Houck added. &#8220;There&#8217;s 15 sections in the newsletter (separated by a thin, gray line) and six of them are either gleefully promoting Democratic/liberal causes or attacking conservatives.&#8221;
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There&#8217;s 15 sections in the newsletter (separated by a thin, gray line) and six of them are either gleefully promoting Democratic/liberal causes or attacking conservatives
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1191948716531486720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
O&#8217;Keefe responded to Stelter&#8217;s actions by putting him on notice.
&#8220;Well, @brianstelter of CNN. You were forced to cover it,&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe wrote. &#8220;But you didn’t have the balls to mention @Project_Veritas by name. You label us an &#8216;activist group.'&#8221;
&#8220;FYI, there are more network insiders. One day you will be face to face,&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe continued. &#8220;Their heads will be held high. Yours, in shame.&#8221;
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Well, <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brianstelter</a> of CNN.
You were forced to cover it.
But you didn’t have the balls to mention <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Project_Veritas</a> by name. You label us an “activist group”
FYI, there are more network insiders. One day you will be face to face. Their heads will be held high. Yours, in shame. <a href="https://t.co/JGoXKxzZ6x">pic.twitter.com/JGoXKxzZ6x</a>
— James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1191955031420997632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>

Brian Stelter

‘MEDIA’S JANITOR’: CNN’s Stelter Defends ABC Over Epstein Scandal

ABC News

Jeffrey Epstein

In a video interview with <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/08/14/google-machine-learning-fairness-whistleblower-goes-public-says-burden-lifted-off-of-my-soul/">Project Veritas</a> released Wednesday, a Google whistleblower comes forward publicly for the first time to warn about the tech giant&#8217;s attempts to &#8220;sculpt the information landscape&#8221; in order to promote what he suggests is a politically and ideologically biased agenda. Among the company&#8217;s alleged, Project Veritas reports, are &#8220;news blacklists,&#8221; the use of &#8220;human raters,&#8221; and, according to the whistleblower, attempts to personally &#8220;intimidate&#8221; him.
The whistleblower, Zachary Vorhies, who worked as a senior software engineer at Google, previously provided Project Veritas leaked internal documents from the company, some of which addressed alleged <a href="http://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whistle-exec-reveals-google-plan-to-prevent-trump-situation-in-2020-on-hidden-cam/">algorithmic bias</a>. He has since provided hundreds more internal documents, which Project Veritas has now <a href="http://www.projectveritas.com/google-document-dump">published</a>, including alleged &#8220;news blacklists&#8221; and documents referencing &#8220;human raters&#8221; in determining how some content is handled. Project Veritas reports:
<blockquote>Among those documents is <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/news-black-list-site-for-google-now.txt">a file</a> called “news black list site for google now.” The document, according to Vorhies, is a “black list,” which restricts certain websites from appearing on news feeds for an Android Google product. The list includes conservative and progressive websites, such as newsbusters.org and mediamatters.org. The document says that some sites are listed with or because of a “high user block rate.”
Another <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_0110.jpg">newly published document</a> titled “Fringe ranking/classifer: Defining channel quality” lists an example ranking of various news sites, including CNN and FOX News. <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_0114.png">A document titled</a> “Fake news &amp; other fringe: Trashy recap” reveals that videos are rated by multiple “human raters.”</blockquote>
&#8220;I gave the documents to Project Veritas, I had been collecting the documents for over a year,&#8221; Vorhies told Project Veritas founder James O&#8217;Keefe. &#8220;And the reason why I collected these documents was because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company, and I realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States.”
Vorhies told O&#8217;Keefe that before he had gone public, Google already figured out who he was, sending him a &#8220;cease and desist&#8221; letter reviewed by O&#8217;Keefe demanding access to the documents he obtained and information about his handling of the files. Vorhies said that he fully complied with Google&#8217;s requests, but also told them that he sent the documents to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/atr">Department of Justice Antitrust Division</a>.
Afterward, Vorhies says, he was outed as a &#8220;leaker&#8221; by an anonymous Twitter account, which prompted him to seek legal advice and &#8220;put out a dead man&#8217;s switch,&#8221; which would trigger the release of the files he&#8217;d obtained in case he was &#8220;offed.&#8221;
&#8220;The next day, the police began looking for me in two different locations,&#8221; Vorhies told O&#8217;Keefe. Vorhies says that Google likely contacted authorities about performing a &#8220;wellness check&#8221; on him. The San Francisco Police Department confirmed to Project Veritas that a &#8220;mental health&#8221; visit was conducted at Vorhies&#8217; residence. The incident, Vorhies alleges, is &#8220;a large way in which [Google tries to] intimidate their employees that go rogue on the company.&#8221;
Clip of the video below along with the link to the full video on Project Veritas&#8217; site:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">NEW: Google &#8220;Machine Learning Fairness&#8221; Whistleblower Goes Public, says: &#8220;burden lifted off of my soul,&#8221; Leaks Hundreds of Internal Documents &#8211; WATCH &#8211;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/58M73VtAlp">https://t.co/58M73VtAlp</a> <a href="https://t.co/SzCJ9Gt3Zt">pic.twitter.com/SzCJ9Gt3Zt</a>
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1161630504132710400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49897/google-takes-action-against-whistleblower-who-james-barrett">Google Takes Action Against Whistleblower Who Called Out Political Bias</a>

Google

WATCH: Google Whistleblower Discusses ‘News Blacklist,’ ‘Human Raters,’ ‘Intimidation’ Tactics

On Wednesday, Project Veritas released a video interview of a Google senior software engineer coming forward to sound the alarm over the impact of political bias at the search engine giant. Within a few hours, Google placed the engineer on administrative leave.
&#8220;Greg Coppola, the senior Google engineer who spoke to Project Veritas in an on-the-record interview about alleged bias in Google News and Google Search, has been placed on administrative leave,&#8221; <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/07/25/update-google-engineer-who-went-public-placed-on-administrative-leave/">Project Veritas</a> reported Thursday in an update on the Coppola interview. In response to the apparent retaliatory action, Coppola has created a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/ujvbwc-x">GoFundMe account</a> with the goal of raising $16,000 in the expectation that he &#8220;will probably be fired&#8221; for &#8220;expressing concern that big tech is taking sides in elections.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49824/watch-google-engineer-goes-record-our-tech-not-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> reported Wednesday, Coppola, a senior software engineer in the Google Assistant division, agreed to go on the record with conservative organization Project Veritas to warn against the political bias he says is built into Google&#8217;s algorithms. In a statement to The Daily Wire, Project Veritas founder James O&#8217;Keefe described the moment as more evidence that &#8220;the dam has broken&#8221; on the issue of Big Tech bias.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">️GOOGLE ENGINEER BLOWS WHISTLE: &#8220;Are we going to just let the biggest tech companies decide who wins every election from now on?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoogleExposed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoogleExposed</a> <a href="https://t.co/EKsmdTZ0ML">pic.twitter.com/EKsmdTZ0ML</a>
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1153989066326728704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve been coding since I was ten [years old],&#8221; Coppola told Project Veritas in the interview. &#8220;I have a PhD, I have five years’ experience at Google and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves. We write them to do what want them to do.&#8221;
&#8220;I think for a while we had tech that was politically neutral,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now we have tech that really, first of all is taking sides in a political contest, which I think, you know, anytime you have big corporate power merging with political parties can be dangerous.&#8221;
In reference to Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifying in front of Congress last December that the company&#8217;s searches are unbiased, Coppola dismissed the claim as &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221; While he has a &#8220;great deal of respect&#8221; for Pichai as a manager, Coppola said, &#8220;I think it’s, you know, ridiculous to say that there’s no bias. I think everyone who supports anything other than the Democrats, anyone who’s pro-Trump or in any way deviates from what CNN and the New York Times are pushing, notices how bad it is.&#8221;
Coppola pointed to the rise of Donald Trump as the turning point in the political bias problem in Big Tech. &#8220;I think as the election started to ramp up, the angle that the Democrats and the media took was that anyone who liked Donald Trump was a racist …&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that got picked up everywhere. I mean, every tech company, everybody in New York, everybody in the field of computer science basically believed that.&#8221;
<a href="http://chwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/07/25/google-punishes-whistleblowing-engineer-administrative">Newsbusters</a> reports that if Coppola is indeed fired, as he expects to be, &#8220;he will be the third public victim of Google’s inherent bias toward conservative engineers.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49819/doj-starts-antitrust-review-major-tech-companies-hank-berrien">DOJ Starts Antitrust Review Of Major Tech Companies Including Google, Facebook, Apple</a>

Google Takes Action Against Whistleblower Who Called Out Political Bias

The corporate media &#8212; including social media &#8212; are now engaged in a full-fledged and collusive attempt to silence conservative voices in time for the 2020 election. On Sunday, just as YouTube was threatening to pull down thousands of &#8220;hateful&#8221; (i.e. conservative) videos, The New York Times printed a breathless and idiotic piece supposedly charting a YouTube viewer&#8217;s descent into right-wing radicalism.
How radical did this poor radical soul get from watching conservative videos? Well, okay, he &#8220;never bought into the far right&#8217;s most extreme views, like Holocaust denial or the need for a white ethnostate &#8230;&#8221; But, &#8220;he began referring to himself as a &#8216;tradcon&#8217; &#8212; a traditional conservative, committed to old-fashioned gender norms. He dated an evangelical Christian woman, and he fought with his liberal friends.&#8221;
The horror. The horror.
This suspiciously timed piece &#8212; clearly designed to give cover to YouTube&#8217;s censorship plan &#8212; featured a collage of faces of right-wing radicals. These included such raving hate-filled alt-right evil-doers as mild-mannered gay centrist Dave Rubin and of course Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro &#8212; whom various left-wing outlets have repeatedly identified as the one and only orthodox Jewish Nazi in all the universes!
But while branding Dave and Ben alt-right may be absurd, it&#8217;s not unintentional. It is part of a strategy. 1. Convince people that hate speech should be silenced. 2. Define hate speech as alt-right. 3. Label powerful mainstream conservatives &#8220;alt-right.&#8221; 4. Silence powerful mainstream conservatives.
And if you don&#8217;t think the effort is collusive &#8212; if not by conspiracy at least by conformist sympathy &#8212; consider the case of James O&#8217;Keefe, the journalistic gadfly of Project Veritas.
O&#8217;Keefe recently exposed anti-conservative censorship at social media outlet Pinterest. Pinterest execs were listing pro-life website Live Action as porn in order to ban it, and foiling searches for PJMedia and &#8212; wait for it &#8212; that tireless doer of wickedness Shapiro. And when O&#8217;Keefe exposed the practice, he was temporarily banned from Twitter and his video removed from YouTube.
Social media censored a conservative for proving that social media was censoring conservatives!
Again, one doesn&#8217;t need to be a conspiracy theorist to understand that all this is strategic. The internet and its various platforms broke the monopoly on information once controlled by huge corporations, almost all of which lean left. It democratized the spread of information, creating venues for independent voices, many of them on the right. That was fine with our elite overlords for a while because the left still managed to silence people through demonization and bullying. People don&#8217;t like being called racist, sexist, Islamophobic, homophobic and so on, especially if it might cost them their jobs. Like the family in the film A Quiet Place, those with conservative leanings learned to live in silence lest the beasts come after them.
But then along came Donald Trump &#8212; rude, boorish and completely indifferent to whatever names they called him. Trump said things people were afraid to say and gave others the feeling they could say them too. When Trump actually pulled off his upset victory, the left knew this freedom of speech thing had gone way too far.
The first stage of Operation Don&#8217;t Speak was the &#8220;fake news&#8221; controversy manufactured by Google-funded organization First Draft, and boosted by leftwing conniver David Brock, with assists from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The object of the fake news panic was to convince social media to install left-wing hate groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center to curate material &#8212; i.e. censor conservatives. The move was successful.
But as 2020 approaches and Trump continues to expose our corrupt press and reach the people, panic is beginning to set in and the next phase of Operation Don&#8217;t Speak is in play: a massive and collusive move to define mainstream right-wing speech as hateful and shut it down.
What conservatives have to understand is that this is the central fight we&#8217;re in. This is where the battle for the soul of the future is taking place. We have to remember that we are not just on the right, we are in the right. And if we allow ourselves to be silenced &#8212; if we allow ourselves to be frightened &#8212; if we start to watch our words or apologize for faked misunderstandings or dial back our humor or throw our friends overboard when they misspeak, we lose.
We lose because we have allowed the left to set the terms of the debate.

KLAVAN: Conservatives Have To Be Fearless In The Face Of Leftist Censorship

Ben Shapiro

Conservatism

Media Bias

On Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Andrew Klavan Show,&#8221; the host speaks with James O&#8217;Keefe about how social media has been quietly censoring conservative and Christian voices, particularly O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s revelations about Pinterest&#8217;s actions to limit conservative posts. Video and partial transcript below.
James O&#8217;Keefe: A whistleblower comes to us inside of a company called Pinterest, which is a big tech company. It&#8217;s a 13-billion-dollar company who had a recent IPO. And this is a whistleblower. This is someone who was willing to lose his job. He knew the risks. He gave us secret documents and since I&#8217;m on the Daily Wire one of the pieces of information in this document, I have the document in front of me. Internal employees at Pinterest were calling Ben Shapiro a &#8220;white supremacist.&#8221; And they put Ben Shapiro, the words &#8220;Ben&#8221; space &#8220;Shapiro&#8221; space &#8220;Islam&#8221; or &#8220;Muslim&#8221;. Any of those combinations of words on what they call an S.T.L. or a sensitive terms list. He shared screenshots of employees working at a high level in the company talking about how they would censor any content mentioning Ben Shapiro.
So, there&#8217;s this information. There&#8217;s also information that Live Action, the largest pro-life organization, the biggest pro-life media organization, they actually consider them to be &#8220;pornography.&#8221; And also, other websites; PJ Media, Zero Hedge, all &#8220;porn.&#8221; So, we reach out for Pinterest to comment on Monday afternoon. And Pinterest scrambles to try to cover this information up and removes Live Action from the porn domain blacklist before we published the story. We published the story. The story blows up. Drudge links to the video, and then Pinterest then places Live Action back on to the porn domain blacklist. And then after that happens Pinterest just bans Live Action. And then what happens is YouTube, which Drudge has just linked to the video of all of these exposés, YouTube bans the video, claiming that we violated a privacy violation of Pinterest and then what happens is Twitter censors us publishing the video. So, YouTube bans the video and then Pinterest informs this young man who blew the whistle that he&#8217;s been placed on administrative leave. So, they didn&#8217;t actually fire him. &#8230; I think the reason why they didn&#8217;t fire him is because they know that they have a lawsuit on their hands. If they fire him for blowing the whistle on what has occurred. So, an extraordinary series of events.
Andrew Klavan: That is absolutely amazing. It is absolutely amazing that social media is ganging up on you to keep you from exposing social media from ganging up on conservatives. I mean it&#8217;s George Orwell, it really is. They&#8217;ve gone &#8230; they&#8217;ve lost their minds but really not. I mean it&#8217;s a strategy, right? They are trying to silence us before the 2020 election. They want Conservatism to (be silence).
James O&#8217;Keefe: This is the, his name is Eric Cochran. I mean he is a hero. We just published an interview with him. He did go on the Tucker Carlson show last night. And what&#8217;s extraordinary, you listen to this guy Eric, he says I don&#8217;t care about &#8230; He was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year working and he just gave it all up. Because he wants to draw out a dozen people like him to do what he did. And if you listen to Eric talk, Eric says this is the watershed moment. He says this is the moment. He says it&#8217;s all happening. I&#8217;ve been doing this for 10 years. I&#8217;ve never had YouTube take down one of my videos. And I covertly film people, I leak documents. That&#8217;s what investigative journalists do. But now what&#8217;s happening is that the public, the tech companies are putting down the gauntlet and saying no, no this is a bridge too far, you&#8217;re throwing the stone in Goliath&#8217;s eye and it&#8217;s hurting us too greatly. They would never do this to the New York Times. They would never do this to The Washington (Post). Those guys publish secret documents all the time. They publish secret documents into state secrets they publish. I don&#8217;t know the documents on you and I that they have.
But that does that&#8217;s not what this is about. This is about putting the line in the sand. And this young man has made the extraordinary decision to give it all up. To basically ruin his career for a cause greater than himself. I think that what&#8217;s going to happen next is there&#8217;s going to be a dozen people like him to blow the whistle. I don&#8217;t think big tech is going to be able to stop them all.
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Andrew Klavan: Well this is the thing, I mean, first of all just to unpack it just a little bit. What you exposed was they were putting Ben Shapiro but also Lila Rose and her fight against abortion, they put her as a porn site. I mean that&#8217;s an amazing thing. So porn sites [are] legitimately banned from Pinterest. And they put her on a porn site. You expose that and they shut you down. I mean it&#8217;s amazing.
James O&#8217;Keefe: Truth is stranger than fiction. If you wrote, you&#8217;re from Hollywood, if you wrote a screenplay about this, the executive producer would throw it in the trash. That&#8217;s too ridiculous. That&#8217;s too cliché. I know this sounds crazy but, it&#8217;s all happening. This is the moment in time, I&#8217;m not exaggerating.
Pinterest put pressure on Google. Pinterest put pressure on YouTube corporate and said this is too true. Just like from that movie The Insider. That&#8217;s a metaphor for what&#8217;s happening because this guy&#8217;s an insider. When Al Pacino says the more true it gets the worse it gets. He sits. He talks. He courageously blows the whistle. We published the information in a responsible way. I&#8217;m not an opinion guy I&#8217;m not a pundit. I just published facts that the public had a right to know and I can&#8217;t go to the New York Times, The Washington Post, because those guys hate my guts so much that they put their hatred and their passion for politics and party over the First Amendment. And the only place I have to go is YouTube and YouTube takes me down. And do you see those blue checkmark guys on Twitter giving a crap about this? No. They say off with his head. The Intercept, which is the entire purpose of The Intercept, is to publish secret documents. He&#8217;s saying Facebook needs to ban O&#8217;Keefe. This is the moment, and this is the moment in time.
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WATCH: O’Keefe To Klavan: Big Tech Colluding To Silence Conservative Voices

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In a chilling move that suggests Big Tech is coordinating to censor conservative voices, YouTube deleted a video produced by Project Veritas exposing alleged censorship of conservative and Christian content by Pinterest. Along with YouTube&#8217;s removal of the video, Pinterest put the whistleblower who provided the documents featured in the report on administrative leave and permanently banned pro-life group Live Action, which was listed on its &#8220;porn domain block list,&#8221; as shown in the video. Twitter also appears to have joined with the other platforms in targeting Project Veritas, hitting founder James O&#8217;Keefe for supposedly violating someone&#8217;s personal privacy through his journalistic investigation and blocking content involving Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.
As <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/48249/watch-whistleblower-pinterest-censors-conservative-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Project Veritas released an exposé video on Pinterest featuring testimony from an employee of the company and internal documents he presented to O&#8217;Keefe indicating that the popular social media platform was quietly censoring some conservative content and voices. Among those that appear to have been targeted by the platform is Shapiro, who was censored in a &#8220;zero tolerance moment,&#8221; Live Action, links to which were blocked on the platform, and a video series exposing Planned Parenthood, which was included in a censor list as a &#8220;harmful&#8221; &#8220;conspiracy.&#8221;
Since the release of the report, Pinterest has placed the whistleblower, Eric Cochran, on administrative leave and permanently suspended Live Action&#8217;s account.
But it&#8217;s not only Pinterest which is cracking down on those involved in the exposé; on Wednesday, YouTube deleted Project Veritas&#8217; video report, citing &#8220;privacy&#8221; violations and informing the organization that it could not show the name of the employee at Pinterest who placed Live Action on the block list or the documentation of that action.
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YouTube has REMOVED our Pinterest Insider story The battle is on SUPPORT the insider who leaked the documents and got fired HERE: <a href="https://t.co/FLBzuLE65R">https://t.co/FLBzuLE65R</a> <a href="https://t.co/zWLfW2leRQ">pic.twitter.com/zWLfW2leRQ</a>
&#8212; James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1138939941134786561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a statement to The Daily Wire, Project Veritas said that while YouTube outlines the content supposedly in violation in the video, the platform &#8220;does not give us any recourse by which to make the requested &#8216;blur&#8217; since they&#8217;ve taken down the video.&#8221; Doing so would be &#8220;anathema to presenting information the public has a right to know,&#8221; the organization argues.
&#8220;The established media and technology are so afraid of investigative journalism they need to censor it,&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;YouTube calls REPORTING on someone by showing their face and name, and how they added a pro-life group to a porn blacklist, a &#8216;privacy complaint.&#8217; Would they do this to NYT?&#8221;
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The established media and technology are so afraid of investigative journalism they need to censor it. YouTube calls REPORTING on someone by showing their face and name, and how they added a pro-life group to a porn blacklist, a &#8220;privacy complaint.&#8221; Would they do this to NYT?
&#8212; James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1138953443811500033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As reported by <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/06/12/twitter-suspends-project-veritas-for-leaking-pinterests-internal-documents-classifying-ben-shapiro-as-a-white-supremacist-n2548132">Town Hall</a>, Twitter has also hit O&#8217;Keefe for the Pinterest exposé, specifically evidence that Shapiro was targeted by the platform, which was censored for exposing &#8220;other people&#8217;s private information,&#8221; according to a Twitter insider.
&#8220;Twitter has decided that investigative journalism is in violation of their terms of service &#8211; @Project_Veritas has been temporarily suspended from posting for tweeting internal communications from @Pinterest which show them calling @benshapiro a &#8216;white supremacist,'&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe tweeted Thursday. &#8220;What does this mean for journalists around the world? For their sources in government, tech, education, etc? Is Twitter your newspaper&#8217;s editor?&#8221;
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What does this mean for journalists around the world? For their sources in government, tech, education, etc? Is Twitter your newspaper&#8217;s editor?
&#8212; James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1138817877472157696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with The Daily Wire Thursday, O&#8217;Keefe called the situation a &#8220;watershed moment&#8221; for both free speech and Big Tech. &#8220;I think that this is a watershed moment in the history of the First Amendment and Big Tech,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What we have seen here is one brave individual come forward, risking everything, in order to combat the collusion that we&#8217;re witnessing among these powerful companies. What Eric wants is for twelve more people in the industry who are likewise concerned about free speech and transparency to come forward. If they do, we will see real change.&#8221;
Pinterest has responded to some of the allegations presented in the YouTube-blocked video: &#8220;Religious content is allowed on Pinterest, and many people use our service to search for and save Pins inspired by their beliefs,&#8221; the company said in a statement to <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/11/tech-insider-blows-whistle-on-how-pinterest-listed-top-pro-life-site-as-porn-bible-verses-censored/">Project Veritas</a>. &#8220;To protect our users from being targeted based on personal characteristics such as their religion, we have policies in place so that ads and recommendations don&#8217;t appear alongside certain terms.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48249/watch-whistleblower-pinterest-censors-conservative-james-barrett">WATCH: Whistleblower: Pinterest Censors Conservative, Pro-Life Content; Pinterest Reacts</a>

BIG TECH CRACKDOWN: YouTube DELETES Project Veritas Video On Pinterest Censorship

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James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released a second undercover sting video on Tuesday from a polling station in New Jersey that appears to show poll workers encouraging people to vote a certain way.
At one point in the video, poll worker Corrine Haynes appears to suggest to Project Veritas&#8217; undercover journalist that she should vote in a certain way for a ballot measure pertaining to whether school officials are appointed or elected.
&#8220;So, at the end of the vote, it&#8217;s what school type you want,&#8221; Haynes said. &#8220;Type 1 is appointed. Type 2 is elected. Elected, of course, because this is a democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;We have elected and we want elected,&#8221; Haynes continued. &#8220;Elected is good. Type 2 at the bottom.&#8221;
When the journalist later seeks to clarify Haynes&#8217; comments, Haynes replied: &#8220;We want democracy. That&#8217;s what Democracy look like. Elected.&#8221;
Haynes later appeared to suggest that it was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; better if the undercover journalist voted for Democratic Senator Bob Menendez over Republican challenger Bob Hugin.
Another poll worker, Tyrese Wicker, told the undercover journalist that Menendez was &#8220;better&#8221; than his opponent.
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BREAKING <a href="https://twitter.com/PVeritas_Action?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PVeritas_Action</a>: Electioneering in NJ: &#8220;Absolutely!&#8221; Vote for Democrats; Menendez is &#8220;Better&#8221; Says Elections Official <a href="https://t.co/9mUfsflUZh">pic.twitter.com/9mUfsflUZh</a>
&#8212; James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1059964838938587137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38043/watch-texas-poll-worker-tells-undercover-reporter-ryan-saavedra">RELATED: WATCH: Texas Poll Worker Tells Undercover Reporter They&#8217;ve Allowed &#8216;Tons&#8217; Of DACA Recipients To Vote</a>

WATCH: Undercover Sting Appears To Show Electioneering By NJ Poll Workers

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released an undercover sting video on Tuesday from a polling station in Texas that appears to show an election official saying that they&#8217;ve had &#8216;tons&#8217; of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients voting in the election.
Project Veritas&#8217; undercover journalist, posing as the girlfriend of a potential DACA voter, visited a polling station in Travis County, Texas to ask election officials if he could vote.
&#8220;If he has his ID that&#8217;s all he needs. If he&#8217;s registered,&#8221; an election worker told the undercover journalist.
&#8220;Right. It doesn&#8217;t matter that he&#8217;s not a citizen?&#8221; the PV journalist replied, adding that she had heard on the internet that he could not vote.
&#8220;No, Don&#8217;t pay any attention to that. Bring him up here,&#8221; the official said.
Another woman, who appeared to be an election official, said that there was not an issue with DACA recipients voting, saying, &#8220;we got a lot of &#8217;em.&#8221;&#8203;
&#8220;You&#8217;ve got a lot of them?&#8221; the journalist asked.
&#8220;Mmhmm,&#8221; the woman replied. &#8220;From early voter. We&#8217;ve got tons of them. Tons of DACA voters. Okay.&#8221;
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BREAKING <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Project_Veritas</a>: Non-Citizens Voting in Texas? &#8220;We got TONS of them&#8221; Says Election Official on Undercover Video (WATCH: <a href="https://t.co/AS489C2BCY">https://t.co/AS489C2BCY</a> ) <a href="https://t.co/2fU5WmSnEP">pic.twitter.com/2fU5WmSnEP</a>
&#8212; James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1059928406735929346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Texas Poll Worker Tells Undercover Reporter They’ve Allowed ‘Tons’ Of DACA Recipients To Vote

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released an undercover sting video on Thursday night that appears to show campaign staffers for Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke &#8220;illegally using campaign resources to buy supplies and help transport Honduran aliens,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2018/11/01/beto/">Project Veritas</a>.
The video, which comes just a few days before the midterm elections, poses potential legal problems for the O&#8217;Rourke campaign. A Project Veritas Action attorney who reviewed the footage released the following statement:
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The material Project Veritas Action Fund captured shows campaign workers covering up the true nature of spending of campaign funds and intentionally misreporting them. This violates the FEC&#8217;s rules against personal use and misreporting. It also violates Section 1001, making a false statement to the federal government. The FEC violations impose civil penalties, including fines of up to $10,000 or 200 percent of the funds involved. Violations of Section 1001 are criminal and include imprisonment of up to five years.
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In one alleged exchange, Dominic Chacon and AnaPaula Themann, who both work on O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s campaign, discussed how the campaign appears to lie about how it uses its resources to help the migrants:
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Chacon: &#8220;The Hondurans, yeah&#8230; I&#8217;m going to go get some food right now, like just some stuff to drop off&#8230;&#8221;
Themann: &#8220;How did they get through?&#8221;
Chacon: &#8220;Well I think they accepted them as like asylum-seekers&#8230; So, I&#8217;m going to get some groceries and some blankets&#8230;&#8221;
Themann: &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever repeat this and stuff but like if we just say that we&#8217;re buying food for a campaign event, like the Halloween events&#8230;&#8221;
Chacon: &#8220;That&#8217;s not a horrible idea, but I didn&#8217;t hear anything. Umm, we can wait until tomorrow for that.&#8221;
Themann: &#8220;Well that&#8217;s exactly the food we need. And I will just mark it as, I do have dozens of block walkers.&#8221;
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Themann: &#8220;There&#8217;s actually stores that just mark it as &#8216;food&#8217; they don&#8217;t mark different types&#8230; at Albertsons, on the receipts, it marks it just based off of brand&#8230;&#8221;
Chacon: &#8220;I think we can use that with those [campaign pre-paid] cards to buy some food, all that s**t can be totally masked like, oh we just wanted a healthy breakfast!&#8221;
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Other highlights from the video noted by Project Veritas:
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<li>&#8220;I just hope nobody that&#8217;s the wrong person finds out about this.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s f***ing happening.&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke Campaign Staff Uses Pre-Paid Cards for Honduran Alien Supplies</li>
<li>&#8220;Don&#8217;t ever repeat this&#8230;&#8221; Campaign Staffers Explain How to Hide Campaign Expenditures for Aliens</li>
<li>&#8220;If you get caught in some sort of violation that&#8217;s like a $50,000 fine,&#8221; &#8220;For me I can just ignore the rules and I&#8217;m like f**k it.&#8221;</li>
<li>Transporting Aliens to &#8220;airports&#8230; bus stations,&#8221; &#8220;None of this is like sh*t there is a rulebook for&#8221;</li>
<li>Staffer Says She Sent Confirming Texts to Director</li>
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‘Nobody Needs To Know’: O’Rourke Campaign Appears To Illegally Support Caravan Migrants, Report Suggests

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s <a href="https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2018/10/23/heitkamp/">Project Veritas</a> released a new undercover video on Tuesday night showing vulnerable Sen. Heidi Heitkamp&#8217;s (D-ND) campaign staff exposing her as being a far-left candidate while she has tried to portray herself as being centrist, saying, &#8220;when she gets elected she&#8217;s going to be super liberal.&#8221;
Jesse Overton, Hietkamp&#8217;s Digital Director, described a bait and switch type of campaigning that Heitkamp is imploring, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s an election year for her. She&#8217;s being careful about pissing people off, and it&#8217;s funny, she said basically like, after the election, if and when she gets re-elected, she&#8217;s going to be super liberal.&#8221;
When one of Project Veritas&#8217; undercover journalists visited Heitkamp&#8217;s Fargo, North Dakota campaign office, staffers admitted they take down posters of former President Barack Obama when the media is present because they want Heitkamp to appear as more moderate than she really is.
Another staffer who works for Heitkamp&#8217;s Senate office, Prescott Robinson, said that if she wins by a large enough margin, then she will start being more progressive, adding that if other Democrats around the country started moving further left that &#8220;she would move to the left.&#8221;
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‘She’s Going To Be Super Liberal’: Heitkamp’s Staff Expose Her In Undercover Sting Video

Heidi Heitkamp

Joseph Shepard, the husband of Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, was accused by his ex-wife of committing horrifying acts of domestic violence against her, according to a protection order filed against him by his ex-wife.
The newly-discovered allegations could damage McCaskill&#8217;s campaign after she opposed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccaskills-husband-was-accused-of-abuse-his-company-victim-blamed-woman-suing-for-sexual-harassment">Fox News</a> reported:
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In 1993, Shepard&#8217;s then-13-year-old daughter called the police to report that her mother, Suzanne Shepard, was a victim of a late-night assault, according to a police report obtained by Fox News. Shepard was listed as the only involved person. No charges were filed after the incident.
Five years later, in 1998, police were called again to the Shepard house. The police reported the wife claiming Shepard came to retrieve a carpet from the house and got involved in a dispute over marital problems. He then &#8220;proceeded to grab her right arm and push her,&#8221; the incident report read.
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The alleged attacked prompted his ex-wife to file &#8220;an adult abuse petition for order of protection&#8221; against Joseph Shepard in which she documented a disturbing pattern of alleged violence and abusive behavior from her husband.
&#8220;I put my hands up to protect my breasts as they are sore (cancer),&#8221; Suzanne Shepard wrote. &#8220;He has hit me before in the breast. He grabbed my wrist and arm and pushed me up against the wall &amp; I hit my head &amp; back &amp; he bruised my arms by pinching me.&#8221;
&#8220;I am afraid of respondent and there is an immediate and present danger of abuse or stalking of me,&#8221; Suzanne Shepard continued. &#8220;He has tripped me, hit me before (police were called by my daughter), punched my cancer breast, peed on me, pushed me down and slapped me.&#8221;
Suzanne Shepard also claimed that Joseph Shepard threatened that he would take all of her things and that she would &#8220;end up in his low-income housing.&#8221;
Fox News also noted that Sugar Creek Realty, a company founded and owned by Joseph Shepard, &#8220;was sued in 2009 in federal court for sexual harassment, prompting a campaign by the firm&#8217;s lawyers against the accuser.&#8221;
Kristin Glemser claimed that she &#8220;suffered mental anguish, inconvenience, embarrassment, the loss of the enjoyment of life and loss of employment&#8221; after her female boss &#8220;allegedly ask[ed] her put on already-worn underwear, follow[ed] her into a restroom, unbutton[ed] her pants without her consent, t[ook] pictures of her in underwear without her consent and forc[ed] her to watch her female boss simulate a sex act with another woman.&#8221;
The company dismissed allegations from the accuser and pointed out her previous career as a model, suggesting that the sexual harassment she alleged happened was really not harassment &#8220;because her previous career indicated to her colleague that she &#8216;had no reason&#8217; to not be &#8216;willing to participate in modeling the [underwear].'&#8221;
McCaskill did not respond to numerous requests for comment from Fox News over the report.
The report is just the latest headache that McCaskill is struggling to overcome as journalist James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37173/people-just-cant-know-claire-mccaskill-goes-down-ryan-saavedra">released undercover sting videos</a> of McCaskill and her campaign staff, who said that McCaskill had certain views that she couldn&#8217;t publicly state or she would probably lose the election.
McCaskill responded to the highly-embarrassing videos by demanding that her Republican opponent, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, open a fraud investigation into the videos that were released.
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The Attorney General should chargeback the author of the McCaskill campaign&#8217;s complaint &#8212;a blatant attempt to politicize the Attorney General&#8217;s office for the benefit of her campaign&#8212;for any time they spent investigating and responding to it. <a href="https://t.co/VEmr8gTPCG">pic.twitter.com/VEmr8gTPCG</a>
&#8212; James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1053382140799389696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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McCaskill’s Husband Punched Ex-Wife’s Sore ‘Cancer Breasts,’ Urinated On Her, Report Says

Claire McCaskill

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s <a href="https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2018/10/15/mccaskill-1/">Project Veritas</a> released a new undercover video Monday night showing Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and her staffers expressing support for radical gun control measures that they admit she can&#8217;t state publicly.
The video shows McCaskill and her staff admitting that she supports banning semi-automatic weapons, bump stocks, high-capacity magazines, along with supporting other far-left policies.
Rob Mills, who works on McCaskill&#8217;s campaign, says in the video that McCaskill can&#8217;t be open about her policies because &#8220;she has a bunch of Republican voters&#8221; and &#8220;that could hurt her ability to get elected.&#8221;
Nicolas Starost, who also works McCaskill&#8217;s campaign, says in the video that former President Barack Obama isn&#8217;t campaigning for McCaskill because she doesn&#8217;t want to be cast as too far-left, even though she believes in the same policies that Obama does.
&#8220;Because of how like, cause he&#8217;s a very liberal candidate,&#8221; Starost says. &#8220;And like&#8230; Claire distancing herself from the party is gonna help her win more votes than it will saying like: &#8216;Oh here&#8217;s Obama, the former President of the United States, to now speak on my behalf.&#8217; Which is unfortunate because I love Obama to pieces, and I&#8217;d love to see him come here.&#8221;
&#8220;And they essentially have the same views on everything?&#8221; the Project Veritas journalist asks.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Starost responds. &#8220;People just can&#8217;t know that.&#8221;
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‘People Just Can’t Know That’: McCaskill, Staff Exposed In Undercover Sting Video

In a newly released video by conservative activist James O&#8217;Keefe, staffers for Tennessee Democratic senatorial candidate Phil Bredesen tell O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s undercover reporters that the Democratic senatorial candidate had publicly &#8220;lied&#8221; about his supposed support for Brett Kavanaugh because he believed it would win over some of the moderate Republican vote.
In a secretly recorded exchange, two staffers for Bredesen&#8217;s campaign explained that while Bredesen said publicly that he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh, that was just a &#8220;political move&#8221; that Bredesen felt necessary because he was 8 points behind Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn and a strong majority of Tennesseans wanted to see Kavanaugh confirmed.
&#8220;Like, he wouldn&#8217;t really vote yes [for Kavanaugh,] would he?&#8221; an undercover reporter asked.
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s a political move,&#8221; said one of Bredesen&#8217;s field organizers. &#8220;He thinks that, like, we&#8217;re down like half a point right now. It&#8217;s, like, really close and we&#8217;re losing by a point or two. So he thinks that if, like, by saying this he&#8217;s appealing to more moderate Republicans and he&#8217;ll get more of them to vote for us.&#8221;
&#8220;I was so confused because I just can&#8217;t believe he would actually vote [for Kavanaugh],&#8221; said the reporter.
&#8220;He wouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; said another staffer. &#8220;But he&#8217;s saying he would &#8230; Which I don&#8217;t know if it makes it worse or better. No, it makes it better &#8230; &#8220;
When the reporter asked the first staffer if Bredesen&#8217;s claim that he&#8217;d vote for Kavanaugh was simply an attempt to &#8220;get the Republican vote,&#8221; she said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;
&#8220;He thought that like by coming out in support [of Justice Kavanaugh] that it would get more Republicans on his side,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;He wasn&#8217;t doing as well in the rural parts.&#8221;
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BREAKING: &#8220;We don&#8217;t say that out of these walls.&#8221; Phil Bredesen&#8217;s Staff Says He Is Lying About Kavanaugh Vote in Undercover Video. &#8220;It&#8217;s a political move.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SecretsAndLies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SecretsAndLies</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TNSenateDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TNSenateDebate</a> Full report: <a href="https://t.co/F2pH0E0uIm">https://t.co/F2pH0E0uIm</a> <a href="https://t.co/C2tYz4m9Uv">pic.twitter.com/C2tYz4m9Uv</a>
&#8212; James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1050188825224458241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2018/10/10/we-dont-say-that-out-of-these-walls-phil-bredesens-staff-says-he-is-lying-about-kavanaugh-vote-in-undercover-video-its-a-political-move/">Watch the full video here</a>.
Bredesen has received some more buzz recently after singer Taylor Swift came out in support of him, the first time she&#8217;s ever publicly supported a political candidate.
Despite Bredesen&#8217;s claim that he would support Kavanaugh, the &#8220;Kavanaugh Effect&#8221; appears to be hitting him particularly hard. After leading several polls prior to Democrats promoting uncorroborated accusations against Kavanaugh, the Democrat now trails by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/tn/tennessee_senate_blackburn_vs_bredesen-6308.html">5 points and 8 points</a> in two recent polls by Fox News and CBS News/YouGov, respectively.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36941/sen-heitkamp-i-decided-vote-against-kavanaugh-james-barrett">Sen. Heitkamp: I Decided To Vote Against Kavanaugh After Watching His Testimony &#8212; With The Sound Off</a>

Undercover Video Shows Staffers For Democrat Bredesen Saying He Lied To Voters About Support For Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh

Supreme Court

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas has <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/09/18/deep-state-unmasked-state-department-on-hidden-cam-resist-everything-i-have-nothing-to-lose/">released</a> their first dose of undercover footage allegedly revealing the shadowy actors of the &#8220;deep state.&#8221; In Tuesday&#8217;s footage, an employee of the State Department and a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) admits to working on DSA work while on the clock and makes it clear that his goal is to &#8220;resist everything&#8221; at &#8220;every level.&#8221;
State Department employee Stuart Karaffa tells undercover Project Veritas reporters that he drafts communication for his DSA activism on the taxpayers&#8217; dime, though he&#8217;s careful not to leave a &#8220;paper trail.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m careful about it,&#8221; he says in the footage. &#8220;I don&#8217;t leave a paper trail, like I leave emails, and like any press s*** that comes up I leave that until after 5:30. But as soon as 5:31 hits, got my, like, draft messages ready to send out.&#8221;
Karaffa also boasts about assisting the DSA by monitoring Virginia campaign finance and election news while on the clock.
&#8220;You could put two and two together probably,&#8221; says the State Department employee. &#8220;So with web traffic, I mean I could make the case before a court of law that &#8212; I&#8217;m going to the Virginia sort of, campaign finance website &#8212; that I&#8217;m just interested in what people are doing politically. But if they also go and look at like DSA minutes and like Officer positions they&#8217;ll be like, &#8216;That&#8217;s weird, you were the co-chair of the electoral caucus, and you spent three hours on a Virginia campaign finance website.'&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe someday I&#8217;ll go to board of elections jail, probably not,&#8221; Karaffa scoffs. It&#8217;s unlikely, he explains, because of the weak oversight and strong protection for firing.
&#8220;I have nothing to lose. It&#8217;s impossible to fire federal employees,&#8221; he says, adding that &#8220;nobody knows&#8221; about his on-the-job DSA activism.
Karaffa also notes that government disclosure forms are merely &#8220;rubber stamped.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if [the ethics officer is] all there. He&#8217;s so checked out,&#8221; he says.
Karaffa also seemingly advocates for the so-called &#8220;resistance&#8221; movement. &#8220;Resist everything,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Every level. F*** s*** up.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve heard a lot about the &#8216;deep State&#8217;; holdovers from the previous administration resisting change or nameless and faceless bureaucrats slowing things down or leaking secrets in an effort to undermine this administration,&#8221; explains O&#8217;Keefe. &#8220;What is truly striking is their boldness, they are not afraid. They are even boastful about a warped reality, where they won&#8217;t get caught and can&#8217;t get fired even if they did.&#8221;
O&#8217;Keefe promises more &#8220;deep state&#8221; footage to come.
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Project Veritas Releases ‘Deep State Unmasked’ Video: ‘Resist Everything. Every Level. F*** S*** Up’

Democratic Socialism

State Department

In the first video of an exposé series titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/08/02/an-unfair-game-urban-meyer-a-history-of-abuse/">An Unfair Game</a>,&#8221; Project Veritas presents undercover footage of four former players under multi-time national championship-winning coach Urban Meyer, formerly the coach of the University of Florida Gators and the now-suspended head coach of the Ohio State University Buckeyes.
&#8203;Meyer was <a href="http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24259780/urban-meyer-ohio-state-buckeyes-coaching-scandal">placed on administrative leave</a> on Wednesday as Ohio State investigates Courtney Smith&#8217;s claims that several people close to Meyer, allegedly including his wife, knew about a 2015 domestic violence allegation against her now ex-husband, former OSU assistant football coach Zach Smith, who was fired last month.
Meyer&#8217;s reputation has already taken some major hits for his time at Florida, where he won two national championships but appears to have looked the other way while his players were involved in a stunning number of crimes. &#8220;During Meyer&#8217;s six-year tenure at Florida, some 31 players were arrested, with at least 10 accused of crimes ranging from misdemeanor battery to felony domestic assault to felony theft to domestic battery,&#8221; <a href="http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24259780/urban-meyer-ohio-state-buckeyes-coaching-scandal">ESPN</a> reports.
O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s undercover video (below) presents another unflattering aspect of Meyer&#8217;s approach to coaching that has not been emphasized in previous reports: his alleged &#8220;history of physical and mental abuse&#8221; of players. In videos filmed &#8220;in separate meetings throughout late 2017 and 2018 across the country,&#8221; four different players describe Meyer&#8217;s tenure at Florida as being characterized by a reckless disregard for players&#8217; health. <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/08/02/an-unfair-game-urban-meyer-a-history-of-abuse/">Project Veritas</a> reports:
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According to these players, Meyer would blatantly disregard player&#8217;s health and wellbeing. Xavier Nixon, who played at the University of Florida for coach Meyer, recalled an incident where Omarius Hines, a teammate at the time, was severely injured during a weight training session Meyer oversaw called &#8220;The Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre.&#8221;
&#8220;They had a guy&#8217;s quads explode in the weight room on the leg press during what we call the Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre. You basically do everything until failure and the lactic acid had built up in his legs so much that his quads literally exploded, they erupted, and he had to be taken out in an ambulance.&#8221;
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Another player corroborated Nixon&#8217;s account. According to all four players, &#8220;there was a culture under Coach Meyer where injured players would be mocked, and the severity of their injuries would be kept from them,&#8221; Project Veritas reports.
One particularly troubling case involved former UF player Gideon Ajagbe, &#8220;who contracted a severe infection in his shoulder that led to hospitalization. Before he was hospitalized, Ajagbe was forced to practice and was purposefully subjected to ridicule from the team.&#8221;
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Nixon said Ajagbe &#8220;was literally dying.&#8221; Despite having &#8220;bacteria eating the muscle in his shoulders,&#8221; Ajagbe was forced to carry &#8220;a 45-pound plate over his head &#8230; he was crying.&#8221; Nixon believed Meyer&#8217;s staff &#8220;didn&#8217;t adequately acknowledge&#8221; Ajagbe&#8217;s injury. Ajagbe confirmed this event in his own words:
&#8220;&#8230; it was bad. A lot of what played into my depression was they humiliated me. They thought I was trying to skip out on practice &#8230; the word they used, imma be frank, they said I was a pu**y &#8230;&#8221;
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Ajagbe eventually became &#8220;suicidal,&#8221; partly blaming the humiliation he suffered while on the team.
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<a href="http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24259780/urban-meyer-ohio-state-buckeyes-coaching-scandal">Read Project Veritas&#8217; full report here</a>.
<a href="http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24259780/urban-meyer-ohio-state-buckeyes-coaching-scandal">ESPN</a> provides more details on OSU&#8217;s investigation of Meyer:
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Then-graduate assistant Zach Smith [was] arrested in 2009 for allegedly shoving his pregnant wife against a wall. Meyer explained last week at Big Ten media day that he and his wife, Shelley, got involved to help Smith and his wife through counseling. Meyer went on to deny knowing that Smith was investigated for domestic violence in 2015. Courtney Smith, Zach&#8217;s now-ex-wife, said Wednesday that she told Shelley about both the 2009 and 2015 incidents. &#8230;
Meyer brought on Smith, a man Meyer knew had been alleged to abuse his pregnant wife. He brought on former Indiana coach Kevin Wilson, who resigned after he was accused of mistreating his players. He stuck by Greg Schiano after a deposition came to light alleging that Schiano knew about Jerry Sandusky&#8217;s child abuse at Penn State, allegations Schiano denies.
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Among the most famous of the players that were on Meyer&#8217;s scandal-plagued Florida squads was Aaron Hernandez, who <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/05/us/aaron-hernandez-note-fiancee/index.html">committed suicide</a> in prison in 2017 after being <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/us/aaron-hernandez-fast-facts/">convicted</a> of the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2013. While he was living in Gainesville, the star tight end was questioned by police about a shooting but was never charged or arrested.

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