A new undercover video series from conservative investigator and provocateur James O’Keefe is already shaking up the 2016 race. The stated goal of O’Keefe’s “Rigging the Election” series is unveiling the “dark secrets at the highest levels of the DNC and Clinton presidential campaign” and within hours of the first video’s release Monday, a consultant for a Democratic organization supporting Hillary Clinton was fired. Another activist featured in the video announced on Tuesday he would stop working with the Democratic National Committee.
The consultant, Scott Foval, was the national field director at Americans United for Change, a collection of Democratic consulting groups. In one clip, Foval tells O’Keefe’s undercover operative: “I answer to the head of special events for the DNC and the head of special events and political for the campaign… The campaign pays DNC, DNC pays Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners pays the Foval Group, the Foval Group goes and executes the s—t on the ground.”
Here’s more from Foval:
Notably, others in the video appear to fess up to creating a near-riot outside of a Trump rally in Chicago that was cancelled under fear of violence. Bob Creamer, husband of Democratic congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, runs Democracy Partners, which works closely with the DNC. Aaron Minter, the DNC’s deputy rapid response director who works with Creamer, told O’Keefe’s team: “So the Chicago protest when they shut all that, that was us. It was more him [Bob Creamer] than me, but none of this is supposed to come back to us, because we want it coming from people, we don’t want it to come from the party.”
A statement released by Creamer, and reported by CNN reads:
Per CNN, Creamer “confirmed that he was referring to the Clinton campaign, with which he was ‘fully integrated.'”
Some at Trump’s rallies have committed inexcusable acts of violence, but O’Keefe’s video demonstrates the lengths to which Democratic operatives say they have tried to incite more violence at those rallies.
You can watch the video below:
