James O’Keefe still likes to play dress-up


If you thought James O’Keefe was washed up and would vanish in the sewage outlet of history after his exposure and disgrace, guess again. He attempted to meddle in the Minnesota primary by dressing up as a “muslim”, putting on a poor “muslim” accent, and attempting to vote illegally, to show that Minnesota election laws were leaky and would allow for significant election fraud.

Veritas founder James O’Keefe, along with reporter Cam Higby, impersonated Muslims and went to multiple Twin Cities polling places during the Aug. 11 primary.

“During Minnesota’s Primary on August 11, 2026, members of a widely discredited Florida-based political group visited several polling places in Minneapolis impersonating Minnesota voters,” Simon said in a news release.

“Dressed in what they called ‘Muslim’ costumes, and imitating foreign accents, they falsely claimed to be registered Minnesota voters. The group used concealed cameras to record their interactions with poll workers, releasing a heavily edited video of their encounters. Their apparent goal was to cast doubt on one or more Minnesota election laws that have been in force for over fifty years. Instead, they revealed their ignorance of how those laws actually work – while putting themselves in legal jeopardy.”

According to Higby, their goal was to see if they’d be allowed to vote without showing identification, and whether they’d be allowed to vouch for people who aren’t registered to vote.

He failed, but he still went ahead and spliced together a very bad video that purported to show Muslim election fraud. O’Keefe has a kink for putting on cheap costumes and posing in racist one-act plays. Isn’t it past time to throw out this piece of trash?

Comments

  1. seversky says

    O’Keefe is still around? I thought Nick Shirley was the new kid on the block. O”Keefe must be scared he’s getting past it.

  2. Snarki, child of Loki says

    @3
    before that, he should be slammed to the ground, tazed to an incoherent twitching mass, then arrested.

    There really needs to be a “BOLO” for this jerk.

  3. raven says

    James O’Keefe has lost multiple court cases, so there is that.
    One criminal conviction and numerous civil lawsuits, that he lost.

    Wikipedia: He tried to tap the phone of US Senator from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu.

    The charges in the case were reduced from a felony to a single misdemeanor count of entering a federal building under false pretenses.[70][71] O’Keefe and the others pleaded guilty on May 26. O’Keefe was sentenced to three years’ probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine.

    and

    Wikipedia Civil Law Suits that Veritas lost:
    On March 5, 2013, O’Keefe agreed to pay $100,000 to former California ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera for breaking state law prohibiting surreptitious recording, and acknowledged in the settlement that at the time he published his video he was unaware that Vera had notified the police about the incident.

    Following the Boudreau incident, Project Veritas paid Izzy Santa a five-figure settlement after she threatened to sue, which included a non-disclosure agreement.[116] Funding decreased from conservative political organizations following this CNN incident.[116]

    In 2024 O’Keefe and Project Veritas settled a lawsuit against them for defamation, brought by the postmaster of Erie, Pennsylvania.[173][174]

  4. Doc Bill says

    O’Keefe did this once before. He showed up to vote but, of course, his fake name wasn’t on the rolls. However, he was given a provisional registration form which he began to fill out. He did not sign the form because knowingly providing false information was a felony with a stiff fine an up to 20 years in the Big House. His little charade ends with him putting pen to the signature line, but he didn’t sign. He balked and scuttled off.

  5. Gaz Smith says

    Veritas? Back in the 70s in Australia there was a scandal sheet with that name. It regularly ran dodgy hit pieces on a popular TV personality. He referred to it as Ferret-ass.

  6. Pierce R. Butler says

    Give O’Keefe a toy scimitar and let him challenge some of those SCA “knights”.

  7. says

    This guy ain’t right in the head. Did he ever finish college? Get a participation trophy? Get a real legitimate job? All he ever seemed to be good for was low-grade scam-pranks, which he’s kept on doing even after all the world can see they’re not working and he’s totally full of shit. I think someone needs to stage an intervention with this loser.

    I’m a little surprised he hasn’t jumped on the “let’s pretend to identify as women so we can get into women’s locker-rooms and prove that’s what trans women are all about” bandwagon. Maybe he figured he’d already given up enough appearance of manliness in the course of his “career”…?

  8. birgerjohansson says

    I can’t believe Obama and the rest threw ACORN under the bus rather than standing up to this compulsive liar. That was one of the things that made me despair of the Democratic lesdership clique.

  9. John Morales says

    [Gaz, as a fellow Aussie I get you refer to Pauline Hanson, but it was not that obvious]

  10. StevoR says

    @7 Gaz Smith : “Veritas? Back in the 70s in Australia there was a scandal sheet with that name. It regularly ran dodgy hit pieces on a popular TV personality. He referred to it as Ferret-ass.”

    He = ???

    Hmm.. couldn’t find a wikipage for that one but did find there was a minor reichwng political party w that name FWIW :

    Veritas (Latin: truth) was a minor right-wing political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 2005 by Robert Kilroy-Silk following a split from the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Kilroy-Silk served as party leader through the 2005 General Election. He was succeeded by Patrick Eston, who resigned in 2008 citing frustrations of his efforts to reform the party. The party merged into the English Democrats in 2015.

    Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas_(political_party)

  11. cheerfulcharlie says

    There is no organization in the U.S. called Anifa. But the FBI is chasing radical leftists members of Antifa. Maybe they could deal with real radicals including Veritas and its law breaking members.

  12. StevoR says

    …by dressing up as a “muslim”, putting on a poor “muslim” accent,

    Recently stumbled across Yousef AbdulHusain’s yt channel and given some of his expert comments on how Arabs actually dress versus how they are inaccurately shown in western movies eg his demolition of this really bad, really obscure Eddy Murphy offensive “comedy” movie – Set in Kuwait. Filmed in Israel. I’d love to think what he’d say about that attempt at dressing and speaking “Muslim” by James O’Keefe.

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