When you lie for a living, there’s no such thing as a failure. There’s just another chance to lie. On Monday, the Washington Post ripped the lid off James O’Keefe’s latest attempt to fool the public.
In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.
That woman, Jaime T. Phillips, turned out to be working for O’Keefe and Project Veritas. So, just to make it extremely clear: O’Keefe hired a woman to lie about sexual assault so that he could cast doubt on women who were actually assaulted by sexual predator and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.
So, once again, those who thought that Republicans supporting Roy Moore was the bottom of this well were forced to break out the shovels.
But O’Keefe wasn’t done. Caught red-handed in the midst of his latest video lie, O’Keefe declared that he was was going to reveal “the truth” including video of a “confrontation” with one of the Post reporters who supposedly forced his way into the offices at O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. Only this time, it was the Washington Post who was recording everything. Including how O’Keefe himself invited the reporter to come to the office.
Davis and another Post reporter, along with two video reporters, went to the Project Veritas offices in Mamaroneck, N.Y., on Monday morning to try to determine whether the woman, Jaime T. Phillips, worked there. They watched as she walked into the office. O’Keefe, who appeared minutes later, declined to answer questions. He invited Davis back for an interview shortly after noon.
As is typical for O’Keefe, what his followers got was a highly edited version of this encounter, designed to make it look like he hadn’t been caught not only lying, but lying to aid and abet sexual assault.
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In a series of interviews with Post reporters over two weeks, Phillips shared a false story about an alleged sexual relationship in 1992 with Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama. She said the relationship led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the whether her claims could affect Moore’s candidacy if she went public.
But the Post didn’t run with this story. Instead, they checked it out. They were unable to verify any of Phillip’s claims and put off by frequent discrepancies in her story.
When Post reporters confronted her last Wednesday with inconsistencies in her story, as well as an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.
And then she walked straight back to O’Keefe and Project Veritas.
The unedited version of the discussion between O’Keefe and one of the Washington Post reporters who uncovered his latest attempt to generate a Big Lie is available at the Post.
What we still don’t know: Who hired O’Keefe? We know that he pockets a hefty six-figure income from his business of generating lies. We know that right wing figures funnel that money to him under the pretense that he’s running a charitable organization.
But who hired O’Keefe to make this specific video? One where, once again: O’Keefe hired a woman to lie about sexual assault in order to protect a sexual predator by discrediting women who had actually been assaulted.
Was it Roy Moore directly? Was it Moore supporter Steve Bannon? Or was it the guy who we already know cut a check to O’Keefe in the past?
