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Trump Campaign to discredit his perceived political enemies, including McMaster (Original Post) FelineOverlord May 2021 OP
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More from the NYT article... hedda_foil May 2021 #4
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hedda_foil

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4. More from the NYT article...
Thu May 13, 2021, 04:32 PM
May 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html?smid=tw-share
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Central to the effort, according to interviews, was Richard Seddon, a former undercover British spy who was recruited in 2016 by the security contractor Erik Prince to train Project Veritas operatives to infiltrate trade unions, Democratic congressional campaigns and other targets. He ran field operations for Project Veritas until mid-2018.

Last year, The New York Times reported that Mr. Seddon ran an expansive effort to gain access to the unions and campaigns and led a hiring effort that nearly tripled the number of the group’s operatives, according to interviews and deposition testimony. He trained operatives at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming.

The efforts to target American officials show how a campaign once focused on exposing outside organizations slowly morphed into an operation to ferret out Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies in the government’s ranks.

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The scheme against Mr. McMaster, revealed in interviews and documents, was one of the most brazen operations of the campaign. It involved a plan to hire a woman armed with a hidden camera to capture Mr. McMaster making inappropriate remarks that his opponents could use as leverage to get him ousted as national security adviser.
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