James O'Keefe of Project Veritas tells Dennis Prager that he was permanently banned from Twitter for alleged fake-account activity, which he calls retaliation for his CNN investigations. Project Veritas is suing Twitter, CNN, and The New York Times, seeking discovery of internal communications and alleging defamation.
They have been in the news recently for the remarkable— in other words, worthy of remark but not worthy of wonder. Nobody was surprised that a CNN executive acknowledged that they were a propaganda machine for the last 4 years and for the election and much else, including frightening people for ratings. And the like. James O'Keefe had this man speak to someone that he had— this man had been seeing a mental situation. James has now been banned from Twitter, they say permanently, and is suing Twitter among others. And I, needless to say, I'm with you, James. What exactly will you be doing now? I'm not hearing James, guys. Everything is connected properly and I'm not hearing James. I feel bad for me. I feel bad for James. The line went dead. Hmm. We have very problematic lines. All right, we will get him back. He is suing Twitter, he is suing CNN, I believe the New York Times. What these companies have become is an American form of Pravda, as is clearly the case with CNN and all of them. Journalism has been corrupted. Well, what hasn't, my friends? It is, it is a purely negative force, leftism. So they need to be sued by many people. There was a— they even, they even banned the New York Post article on the BLM head who spent $3 million on a few homes. All right, James, I'm sorry about that. I have no control over the world of technology.
So, Dennis, um, yeah, you know, I appreciate you having me on again, and I just want to say that, uh, uh, we are filing the Twitter lawsuit today. I was banned on Friday for, quote, making fake accounts, unquote. That's a defamatory statement. And we're filing a lawsuit, probably in New York, literally in a matter of hours from now. And for those of you who think I'm bluffing or just doing this for publicity stunt, your audience may or may not know that Project Veritas recently won in the Supreme Court of the state of New York in a defamation action against the New York Times. We're one of only a handful of people to have accomplished this in the last few decades. So that means, Dennis, that we intend to get videotaped discovery into Twitter's operations, since we're already going to be doing that into the New York Times. And we intend to publish the people under oath, uh, because, Dennis, there's no other option. We have to go on offense. We have to hold them accountable. They banned me on Twitter because our video exposés of CNN were too true and effective, and they needed to get rid of me. And this is, this is just principles that we're fighting for here that are universal, so we're not going to back down.
I think that's fantastic. The lawyers— I'm not asking their names, but the lawyers you have, you're confident in?
Well, I'll tell you this, uh, if I can tell you the firm, uh, we hired Claire Locke, uh, Libby Locke, one of the best defamation lawyers in the country, against the New York Times. And we're hiring Harmeet Dhillon, who you all may know in California, who's an expert on Silicon Valley. But they may have immunity under the 230, Section 230, but this is not that. This is different. They've made a statement about me. I'm a public figure, so I can prove actual harm.
Right, that's right. They're immune if somebody else makes a statement about you, but they're not immune if they make a statement.
That's correct. That's correct. And I just want to highlight this because I think it's so important, because I know this is a little in the weeds, but when we sued the New York Times, the justice in New York State put out a 16-page order and they said it was the New York Times that apparently engaged in disinformation and deception. And you have to remember, these people accuse us of what they do. They're masters of projection. So they may be impersonating things, and I've had people try to impersonate my own employees, which I'd never do. And I just think it's important for us to do something about the problems in society. We have to actually fight them. The only way that I know how is through the country's libel laws. You do have a recourse under defamation law. You can go after these people when they intentionally lie about you. You just can't do that. So Dennis, I'm not bluffing.
No, no, no, you're one of those who fight on the good side. You're not the typical guy on our side. Listen, I don't know if you have time or not. Do you?
I have another 5 minutes or so.
Okay, because, well, I got to take a commercial break. So if I— look, I will have you again if we're not— not now, because you're doing great work.
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