We don’t know if it happened because the source is untrustworthy.The “proof” is a heavily edited tape by a man named O’Keefe.In the past, O'Keefe and his Project Veritas Action have been criticized for strategically editing footage to create false impressions about people or groups. In fact they have been successfully sued for getting someone fired from their job by representing them as doing something they didn’t do with misleading editing. This is not the only time they “proved” the opposite of what actually happened.In other words O’Keefe is willing to lie to prove a point.Trump did not disclose his part in the making of the video. What follows is lengthy but makes the point to be skeptical of this “evidence”.
In Wednesday’s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed that new videos proved that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had “hired people” and “paid them $1,500” to “be violent, cause fights, [and] do bad things” at Trump rallies.He was referring to videos released this week by conservative activist James O’Keefe that purport to show pro-Clinton activists boasting of their efforts to bait Trump supporters into violent acts. The videos offer no evidence that Clinton or Obama were aware of or behind the alleged dirty tricks.Still, Trump claimed the videos exposed that a violence at a March Chicago rally was a “criminal act” and that it “was now all on tape started by her.”Trump neglected, however, to mention his own connection to the videos, released by James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas tax-exempt group. According to a list of charitable donations made by Trump‘s controversial foundation (provided to the Washington Post in April by Trump’s campaign), on May 13, 2015, it gave $10,000 to Project Veritas.
