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Part One: James O'Keefe: The Patron Saint of News Grifters

Behind the Bastards

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Project Veritas - The Complete Mercenary

Another backer of Project Veritas was Donald Trump, who put $20,000 into the group before the 2016 election and met with O'Keefe numerous times. One additional person who helped Project Veritas out in the 2016 election was Bloodthirsty mercenary and another frequent bastard pod side character, Eric Prince. In late 2015 or early 2016, Prince arranged for O'Keefe and Project Veritas receive training and intelligence and elicitation techniques from a retired military intelligence operative named Euripides Rubio Jr. The former special operative quit after several weeks of training, complaining that the Veritas group wasn't capable of learning.

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