jadawson said:you're saying that a reputable site like Project Veritas just ran with something like this without verifying anything? Say it ain't so...Civilized said:
WaPo: "Postal worker admits fabricating allegations of ballot tampering, officials say"
A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three people briefed on the investigation and a statement from a House congressional committee.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/postal-worker-fabricated-ballot-pennsylvania/2020/11/10/99269a7c-2364-11eb-8599-406466ad1b8e_story.html
Shocked, SHOCKED I say!!
Project Veritas is doing more than running with something, bro. They're rewarding it! Come get on the lies, fraud, and alleged corruption gravy train!! It's way more lucrative than an Obama-phone, for sure!
From the same article:
Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe on Saturday hailed Hopkins as "an American hero" on Twitter. A GoFundMe page created under Hopkins's name had raised more than $136,000 by Tuesday evening, with donors praising him as a patriot and whistleblower.
"Your donations are going to help me in the case I am wrongfully terminated from my job or I am forced into resigning due to ostrizization [sic] by my co-workers," the page states. "It will help me get a new start in a place I feel safe and help me with child support until I am able to get settled and get a job."
Separately, on Monday Project Veritas announced it was offering a "$25,000 reward" for "first hand election fraud tips in Pennsylvania." Late Tuesday, O'Keefe claimed to have recordings of agents questioning Hopkins and said that he was pressured to sign a document he did not understand.
So you mean to tell me that when people think they can get social-media famous, real famous, become a right-wing cult hero, and/or make tens of thousands of dollars by making up election fraud nonsense, they'll do it?!?
Simply flabbergasting!
How many of these will have to come out and/or court cases will have to get thrown out before Pub leadership wises up to the fact that they can't rely on shallow social media culture to bail them out and Trump just needs to nut up and take the L like a grown-ass man?
They're running around breathlessly chasing specious claims of fraud like a dog in heat, only to have one after the other debunked or thrown out of court.
This is way past the point of embarrassing for them. Have some damn dignity.
