Meet the people bankrolling James O’Keefe’s group

The following article by Josh Israel and Joshua Eaton was posted on the ThinkProgress website November 29, 2017:

James O’Keefe, in 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

For the past seven years, conservative operative and convicted criminal James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas have used a mix of selective editing and guerilla filmmaking in a mostly unsuccessful series of attempts to discredit political opponents.

On Monday, their latest “sting” operation exploded in their face when The Washington Post caught on to an operative’s false claims of statutory rape, designed to discredit those actually coming forward with stories of sexual assault and to undermine the paper itself. Continue reading “Meet the people bankrolling James O’Keefe’s group”