Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile questioned conservative activist James O’Keefe to see if he had “bugged” her just like he has other progressive operatives.
Brazile said on Twitter that she confronted Project Veritas founder O’Keefe at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend, a conference featuring right-wing notables like Milo Yiannopoulus and Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon.
Asked O’Keefe if he bugged the DNC. His answer: No. asked if he was filming or tape recording my questions? Answer No. We parted company.
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) November 11, 2016
What’s on your menu? Just ran into James O’Keefe in Florida at a conference hosted by David Horowitz. We live in interesting times.
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) November 11, 2016
O’Keefe’s organization secretly filmed political operative Robert Creamer, who worked with the DNC and who claimed he was planting agitators to incited violence at Donald Trump rallies. After the story broke in October, Brazile denied that the conspiracy ever took place and dismissing O’Keefe after the release of the video as a “convicted criminal with a history of doctoring view to advance his ideological agenda.”
Creamer cut ties with the DNC after concluding his continued association would do damage to Hillary Clinton’s failed bid for the presidency.
Brazile, a longtime Democratic political strategist, was fired from CNN after emails posted by WikiLeaks revealed she had offered the Clinton campaign a heads up on a question from one of the network’s sponsored primary debates. She was made DNC interim chair this summer after an earlier batch of hacked emails revealed her predecessor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was stacking the cards against primary candidate Bernie Sanders in favor of Clinton.
O’Keefe tweeted a photo with fellow conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza, appearing to confirm he attended the minimum $1,750 per person Palm Beach conference.
.@Debber66 Hanging with the intrepid @JamesOKeefeIII at @horowitz39 Restoration Weekend pic.twitter.com/uuXGjDTtP9
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 11, 2016