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Nitram

(22,671 posts)
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 10:37 AM Jan 2017

Counter-Sting Catches James OKeefe Network Attempting To Sow Chaos At Trumps Inauguration

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― A left-wing political group released a new video Monday of a counter-sting that has uncovered evidence of right-wing activists trying to sow chaos at Donald Trump’s inaugural ceremony, an effort to portray critics of Trump who march against him as violent fringe figures.

The counter-sting, carried out by The Undercurrent and Americans Take Action, a project of a previous target of provocateur James O’Keefe, managed to surreptitiously record elements of O’Keefe’s network offering huge sums of money to progressive activists if they would disrupt the ceremony and “put a stop to the inauguration” and the related proceedings to such a degree that donors to the clandestine effort would “turn on a TV and maybe not even see Trump.” To have riots blot out coverage of Trump, the donor offered “unlimited resources,” including to shut down bridges into D.C.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/counter-sting-catches-james-okeefe-network-attempting-to-sow-chaos-at-trumps-inauguration_us_5873e26fe4b043ad97e516f7

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Counter-Sting Catches James OKeefe Network Attempting To Sow Chaos At Trumps Inauguration (Original Post) Nitram Jan 2017 OP
Go fund me? moreland01 Jan 2017 #1
Good! Cha Jan 2017 #2
Conservatives CAUGHT Trying To Pay Liberals To Disrupt Trump Inauguration turbinetree Jan 2017 #3
OKeefe is a prissy little punk who would be pimped out in prison. keithbvadu2 Jan 2017 #4
Speaking of which, why is he not in prison for impersonating telephone workers in New Orleans? muntrv Jan 2017 #7
because musette_sf Jan 2017 #9
This is a big event for me watoos Jan 2017 #5
Isn't it a crime to deliberately start a riot? If so then why have there been no arrests made? cstanleytech Jan 2017 #6
The simple answer is: He's a Republican padfun Jan 2017 #8

moreland01

(735 posts)
1. Go fund me?
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 10:44 AM
Jan 2017

Some of us might have sent him a donation if he'd just asked . Chaos at the ignoreguration? Personally, I'm cool with that if nobody gets hurt. "Put a stop to the ignoreguration.", somebody please!!!!

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
4. OKeefe is a prissy little punk who would be pimped out in prison.
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 10:57 AM
Jan 2017

O’Keefe is a prissy little punk who would be pimped out in prison.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
5. This is a big event for me
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 11:36 AM
Jan 2017

I post on a local red wing blog in Pa. and I have been bombarded for the past year about how George Soros pays thugs to disrupt Trump events, to restrict his 1st Amendment freedom of speech.

I am pounding the Trumpers with this news. I tell them that the Trump foundation has been paying Project Veritas to set Reichstag fires at Trump events.

I have listened for a year about how Bernie Bros are disrupting Trump events, paid by George Soros.

I now laugh at them and tell them that all along it was the fake pimp O'Keefe, funded by the Trump foundation, paying people to cause trouble at Trump's rallies.

O'Keefe used fake and spliced video to go after Planned Parenthood and Republicans are still using that deception to try to defund PP. Project Veritas and O'Keefe need to be exposed and vilified, hopefully arrested, before he does more damage.

padfun

(1,780 posts)
8. The simple answer is: He's a Republican
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 01:15 PM
Jan 2017

So NO arrests! Unless they arrest those progressives who uncovered this.

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