Project Veritas reduced to begging after ousting Founder James O'Keefe
The Board members at Project Veritas are beginning to understand the price of arrogance.
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It isn’t always apparent what makes something work. Success breeds arrogance, and arrogance often brings with it fatal errors in judgment. Ye (Formerly known as Kanye West) found that out after he pressed the wrong buttons with his comments and was quickly reminded that he was but a cog in the machine and he could be removed with some penalty, but the machine would keep on running all the same.
Project Veritas is starting to learn the gravitas of their own arrogance as donors abandon their organization en masse in the wake of their ouster of Founder and former CEO, famed investigative journalist James O’Keefe.
For the quick rundown on this situation, Project Veritas has alleged that James O’Keefe was “difficult to work with” and a “bully” by some former and current employees of the organization. The Board of Directors, feeling the heat of the furor against such a controversial decision, has since released a rather pathetic list of instances where James O’Keefe allegedly misused funds for his own purposes, such alleging that he paid for his wedding with Project Veritas funds, which stands as an absurd accusation since James O’Keefe isn’t, and has never, been married.
For more, I’ll leave my previous article about the situation below.
That accusation only serves to crumble the already shaky foundation that Project Veritas currently stands upon. And their desperation has become obvious and palpable.
In leaked emails to donors who are understandably pissed off about Project Veritas’ radical change in direction that curiously comes on the heels of a bombshell story about Pfizer where Head of R&D, Jordan Walker, confessed on camera that Pfizer was mutating covid strains in order to make different versions of their vaccines, calling it ‘directed evolution’.
For anyone keeping score, directed evolution is a dog whistle for gain of function research.
Again, I will leave my piece on that story down below rather than rehashing it here.
The email in question, sent by Bethany Rolando — one of the 16 dissenters in that letter sent to the board asking for swift action to be taken against O’Keefe for alleged misdeeds — shows how desperate Project Veritas is to retain their donors and audience, even as they continue to bleed Twitter followers.
Since it was officially announced that James O’Keefe would be leaving Project Veritas based on the Board’s baffling course of action, Project Veritas has bled followers on its Twitter account, an average loss of 75,876 since the news broke.
”We understand and share your frustrations. We all love and respect James and hope he returns. This is difficult for everyone.”
Of course they hope he returns. Without James O’Keefe, Project Veritas doesn’t exist. At least, it won’t exist for long, as all the donors who once gave to them will follow O’Keefe wherever he ends up.
Rolando then goes on to list all the ‘grievances’ and issues that they’re currently investigating through supposedly independent auditors.
These issues include O’Keefe unilaterally firing the former CFO of Project Veritas, Tom O'Hara, which is a violation of the bylaws of the organization, according to Rolando.
She also reiterates the accusation of O’Keefe violating his fiduciary responsibility to donors by using Project Veritas funds for personal reasons. The labeling of these is laughable, stating that he spent thousands on “black cars” and other such nonsense.
Naturally she also mentions employee grievances against the way O’Keefe ran Project Veritas, which has always been the most absurd because being an investigative journalist does not place you in an easy world, by its nature. You’re risking a lot to expose stories on the level that Project Veritas did under James O’Keefe, and the stakes are understandably high. One mistake and the story dies. Soft people need not apply.
A veteran of such a field like James O’Keefe is going to be grizzled and tough, but it’s always for a good reason. And Laura Loomer spoke to that on a Twitter Space as she described her time in Project Veritas, saying that O’Keefe was always a consummate professional and a very caring person to boot. That flies directly in the face of the characteristic assertions made by the disgruntled crybabies who sent that letter to the Board of Directors.
To add further credence to how tough the industry of investigative journalism is, Rolando also describes how 140 people have left Project Veritas in 7 years time. She, of course, tries to allege that it was O’Keefe who caused this, which is ridiculous. Does she seriously expect anyone at all to believe that O’Keefe managed to bully out 140 people?
No, my dear, investigative journalism separates the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff. High turnover is because it’s ruthless, demanding, and unforgiving. In a world like that, few will make the cut.
Even now, Rolando and Project Veritas’ remaining controlled opposition moles still maintain that O’Keefe was not ‘removed’ even though they decided to push him out of his role. That’s removal enough. What she says is technically true IF he remains with Project Veritas, which, based on his comments in his farewell address on the matter, he’s not going to stay. And he shouldn’t. Where he goes, the real talent in Project Veritas will go also, and donors will go with them.
”We hope that you might continue to give us a chance. We can’t stress how separate the board’s role is from daily operations here at PV (Project Veritas). We are still grinding and pursuing stories of great public importance.”
”In either case, thank you so much for your support in the past and we hope we might regain your trust in the future if you’ll give us a chance.” Rolando grovels, signifying the end of dignity at what remains of Project Veritas.
The letter reads like it was written by someone who knows what comes next. All trust is gone at Project Veritas because it left when Board members behaved like activists and attempted to protect the interests of multi-billion dollar corporations like Pfizer instead.
It begs the question: what stories will Project Veritas now scrap with O’Keefe out of the picture? Were they bigger than Pfizer’s bombshell? It’s hard to fathom.
Maybe that is how Project Veritas will survive, though. Maybe that deal has already been made after moles within the organization leaked what Project Veritas under James O’Keefe had against major players in corporations and government alike, and that the organization will bury those stories in exchange for illicit funding, effectively resorting to soft extortion with the promise of friendlier coverage in the future.
James O’Keefe has stated publicly in his farewell address, which you can watch above, on the matter that he has no job, currently, because he cannot “in good faith return to the employment of an organization with leaders who are attacking me personally, making false and unsupported claims of improper management of resources about weddings and black cars, [and] improperly airing employment issues related to me and others at Project Veritas."
One of the caveats of his return to Project Veritas was also the resignations of the Board of Directors. Naturally, they would never agree.
O'Keefe went on to say that he wasn't the one to leak internal and confidential materials from within the organization and that he would swear to that fact under oath. He is of course speaking about the document sent to the board asking for his removal, or "appropriate punishment" as the board saw fit.
O’Keefe made his intentions clear in the wake of this debacle, that he intends to soldier on and keep on reporting on corruption and scandals that no other news outlets dare to touch, or simply do not have. And that those who wish to honor the original mission of Project Veritas will come with him.
It might not be under the Project Veritas banner, but it’s reassuring to know that such stories will not die inside of the vaults of Project Veritas, an organization that obliterated any credibility they had with one foolish action by the Board of Directors, and chose to side with the power structures that are destroying society.