Steve Bannon had 'nothing to do' with James O'Keefe's Washington Post sting

Source: Washington Examiner | November 28, 2017 | Gabby Morrongiello

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon had “nothing to do” with a woman who tried to dupe the Washington Post earlier this month by falsely claiming that Alabama Senate GOP candidate Roy Moore once impregnated her, a source close to Bannon told the Washington Examiner.

The Post reported Monday that a woman approached two of its reporters in early November, claiming to have had a relationship with Moore when she was 15 years old that led to a terminated pregnancy. The woman’s story contained a handful of inconsistencies, according to the Post, which ultimately decided against publishing it.

Reporters who were tasked with fact-checking the woman’s claims soon discovered that she may have been employed by Project Veritas, an organization run by conservative activist James O’Keefe that aims to expose liberal bias in the press. The group has built a reputation for producing undercover video sting operations exposing reporters or editors and their left-leaning politics.

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Breitbart News also denied having any involvement in the Project Veritas scheme in an article posted Monday under the headline: “James O’Keefe and Washington Post bust each other.”

“No one at Breitbart News was involved in, or aware of, O’Keefe’s investigation,” the article read.

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