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Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The White House moved Wednesday to distance itself from a Democratic dirty-tricks scandal amid Republican calls for an investigation and newly released
footage revealing that a Hillary Clinton campaign consultant schemed to have women bullied at a Donald Trump rally.
The latest hidden-camera video posted by Project Veritas shows
Aaron Black, an associate at the Democratic consulting firm Democracy Partners, brainstorming about how to make sure pro-Trump men bully hired female agitators.
“So we get people behind Trump when he’s at a rally, but we make sure it’s women and they are positioned next to men,” said
Mr. Black. “We want images of the men bullying the women who are trying to hold their signs up. That’s what I’m going to do. That is what we’re going to do. That is the hit.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, called for the FBI to conduct a “serious criminal investigation,” while the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and two political consulting firms.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the videos reveal a “fundamental threat to our democracy.”
“I have a very simple first question: Where is the FBI? Why is the FBI not investigating? You have a willful effort to foment violence, to break up a presidential campaign, to intimidate voters — where is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?” Mr. Gingrich told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Footage released this week shows Democratic operatives discussing voter-fraud schemes and their work in hiring and training agitators — including the mentally ill, homeless and union members — to incite violence by baiting Trump supporters at campaign events.
The scandal reached the Obama administration Wednesday after reports that Democracy Partners head Robert Creamer, who stepped down Tuesday over the uproar, has visited the White House 342 times, including 45 meetings with President Obama, since 2009.
Asked if Mr. Creamer could be called a friend of the president, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, “That’s not how I would describe him.”
Aaron Black says female campaign operatives would be assigned to arrive at a Trump rally seven hours early in order to gain prime positions behind the candidate, and that they would smuggle in provocative signs in order to elicit an on-camera reaction from pro-Trump men.
“Yup, and fold up those signs that we have and put them in their pockets,”
Mr. Black says in a conversation with a Project Veritas investigator.
The associate, whose real name is Aaron Minter, worked for Mr. Creamer but also identifies himself in the video as “deputy rapid-response director for the DNC.”
So far, the Clinton campaign and the DNC have made no public comment on the content of the videos or resignations of the Democratic consultants.
Mr. O’Keefe has said his group plans to release more videos stemming from its yearlong undercover investigation before the Nov. 8 election.