O'Keefe complaint to FEC
cites Dems' 'criminal conspiracy', Vote
fraud, Trump-rally anarchy linked to Clinton campaign, by Bob Unruh, 10/20/16
Citing a Democratic operative’s
confirmation of a chain of command that runs directly from Hillary Clinton’s
campaign to agents who “execute … on the ground,” the activists at Project Veritas are asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate
a “criminal conspiracy.’
The filing of the complaint with the federal agency follows the release earlier this
week of two videos in which Democrats explain how they can attempt to change
the outcome of the election through apparently fraudulent means, such
as having people travel across state lines to vote illegally. The
complaint follows the filing of another complaint with the FEC, by the Public
Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit
organization “dedicated to protect the right to vote, preserve the
constitutional framework of American elections, and educate the public on the
issue of election integrity.” Both cite the evidence in the videos
released by James O’Keefe’s Project
Veritas.
The videos have
resulted already in two Democratic operatives who appeared on them losing their
jobs. Editor’s Note: Be aware
of offensive language throughout videos and in quotes from videos.
One is Scott Foval, who had worked
for People for the American Way, a George Soros-funded group, and more recently
with Americans United for Change. In the video, he said: “You know
what? We’ve been busing people in to deal with you f—ing a—–es for 50 years,
and we’re not going to stop now.” Also, he said he and his agents are
“starting anarchy” by creating “conflict engagement … in the lines at Trump
rallies.”
Also now out of work is Bob Creamer,
founder and partner of Democracy Partners, and husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky,
D-Ill. Foval credited Creamer with coming
up with a number of ideas and strategies to enhance Democrats’ standing among
voters. The new complaint from O’Keefe’s
organization explained his journalists “have uncovered a criminal conspiracy
where, in the words of Scott Foval, ‘The way that works is: The [Clinton]
campaign pays DNC, DNC pays Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners pays The
Foval Group, The Foval group goes and executes … on the ground.’
The complaint states: “This has been
done in a manner to evade federal election laws and violating coordinated
expenditure rules.” It is supplemented with pages of
evidence. “The criminal conspiracy involves
the knowing and willful creation of coordinated expenditures from prohibited
corporate sources. As is detailed numerous times in the Veritas transcript,
attached as EXHIBIT A, the supposedly independent speech and actions of
third-party groups were directed, controlled, or puppeteered by HFA or the DNC.
“Indeed, the record establishes not
just simple violations of the FECA’s coordination provisions, but ongoing
knowing and willful evasion of federal election law requirements through a complicated
scheme. Because this conspiracy involves large numbers of employees, heightened
travel, production, and distribution costs and because of the nationwide scale
of the operation, upon information and belief, this triggers criminal
penalties.”
One result of the six-month
undercover investigation is that “the supposedly spontaneous and independent
protests occurring at Donald Trump events nationwide were controlled and
directed by Democratic Party operatives.”
“The commission should find reason
to believe that Hillary for America and other named respondents have violated
52 U.S.C. [paragraph] 30101, et seq, and conduct an immediate investigation,”
the complaint explains. “Because of the weighty public interest at stake here,
it should do so within 120 days of the filing of this complaint … the
complainants request that the FEC impose sanctions appropriate to these
violations and take further action as may be appropriate, including referring
the matter to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation.”
Foval explains the subterfuge. “We can hire any demo that we want.
We use the same mechanism to recruit them that we do to make focus groups. … We
have to be really careful. Um, because, what we don’t need is for it to show up
on CNN that the DNC paid ‘x’ people to … that’s not gonna happen. We need to
keep it, you know, I hate to use the Beyonce term, ‘partition,’ but we need to
keep the partition. That’s as gay as I’ll get.”
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When the videos appeared, former
House Speak Newt Gingrich also raised questions about the apparent disdain for the law.
“Where is the FBI, why is the FBI
not investigating this?” the former House speaker asked during an appearance on
Fox News on Tuesday, BizPacReview reported. “You have a deliberate willful
effort to foment violence, to break up a presidential campaign [and] to
intimidate voters.” The PILF complaint, directed to the
office of the general counsel for the FEC in Washington, names Hillary for
America, the DNC, Democracy Partners, Americans United for Change and others. This complaint is based on
information and belief that respondents have engaged in public communications,
campaign activity, targeted voter registration drives, and other targeted GOTV
activity … at the request, direction, and approval of the Hillary for America
campaign committee and the Democratic National committee in violation of 11
C.F.R. 109.20 and 11 C.F.R. 114.4(d)(2) and (3).”
The activities, the complaint
says, “potentially registered persons who were not citizens.” They also
illegally coordinated political maneuvers between a candidate’s committee and
groups that are supposed to be operating independently, the complaint charges.
That puts them in violation of
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the complaint contends.
Sen.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said on Twitter,
according to the Washington Examiner, that multiple visits to the White House
by a “voter fraud operative” merits “a serious criminal investigation.”
Talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh said the evidence is worrisome. “Every Trump rally would feature none of this [violence] unless the Democrats were paying for it. I think it’s a big deal, folks. The media is complicit. They know who these people are. … They’re in on it. They’re part of the game. … None of it’s organic. None of it’s natural. None of it’s real. Every bit of it is bought and paid for.
“[Democrats] can’t leave elections
to chance because they know that, despite the way it may look, the majority of
Americans would not support them if they knew who they are.”
Foval said he works backward in his
thinking. He first speculates how a charge of voter fraud could be proven, and
then he manipulates circumstances and events to avoid those tactics.
He talked about bringing voters from
one state to another to vote illegally.
Hiring a bus could be used as
evidence of conspiracy, he noted, so people would need to drive their own cars,
or better yet, rentals. There also was a discussion about
using local addresses for illegal voters. He said what needs to happen is to
“implement the plan on a much bigger scale.” “You implement a massive change in
state legislatures and in Congress. So you aim higher for your goals, and you
implement it across every Republican-held state.” In
Monday’s video, Creamer confirmed, “The campaign is
fully in it.”
Project Veritas says the actions are
“behind-the-scenes shady practices with consequences most Americans have seen
on national television at Donald Trump campaign rallies across the country.” “What the media hasn’t reported is
that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee has been directing
these activities with, at very best, a very thin veil of plausible
deniability.” Commented Foval at one point, “I’m
saying we have mentally ill people, that we pay to do s—, make no mistake. Over
the last 20 years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff,
and I’ve also taken them for dinner, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel,
and a shower. And I put them in a program. Like I’ve done that. But the reality
is, a lot of people especially our union guys. A lot of our union guys …
they’ll do whatever you want. They’re rock and roll. When I need to get
something done in Arkansas, the first guy I call is the head of the AFL-CIO down
there, because he will say, ‘What do you need?’ And I will say, ‘I need a guy
who will do this, this and this.’ And they find that guy. And that guy will be
like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s do it.'”
Last
week, O’Keefe reported his Twitter
account was shut down as he was releasing reports on voter fraud. In one video he
released last week, a Clinton staffer confessed that
ripping up voter registration forms – if they are for Republicans – is “fine.” The video also revealed a sexist
atmosphere inside the Clinton campaign in which another staffer boasts he would
probably have to “grab a–” twice before he’d even be reprimanded. It
underscores the double standard by Democrats who have been critical of the
11-year-old recording of Donald Trump making lewd remarks about women.
In the video, both Wylie Mao, a
field organizer for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party of Florida in
West Palm Beach, and Trevor Lafauci, a Clinton campaign staffer, agree that
ripping up registration forms from Republicans should be “fine.” “If I rip up completed VR forms,
like 20 of them, I think I’ll just get reprimanded. I don’t think I would get
fired,” Mao said. Lafauci, after being told that
someone else ripped up Republican registration forms, said, “Yeah, that should
be fine.”
When Project Veritas journalists
confronted both Mao and Lafauci about the comments they made on camera, they
“refused to answer and walked away,” the organization said. O’Keefe previously
released an undercover video of Alan Schulkin, the New York Democratic
commissioner of the Board of Elections, confirming there is widespread fraud. In the video, he is heard disclosing
that organizers use buses to haul people from poll to poll to vote.
“Yeah, they should ask for your ID.
I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” he said in the video, which was
recorded some months ago.
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