BUSTED: Video catches lead J&J scientist apparently admitting vaccine was unsafe in sting operation
Two days ago, guerrilla journalist and O’Keefe Media Group founder James O’Keefe dropped a bombshell on Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson knew all along that their COVID-19 vaccine was unsafe and ineffective. Joshua Rys, a lead regulatory scientist at the company, just boldly admitted it.
On a recent episode of “Blaze News: The Mandate,” O’Keefe joined Jill Savage and Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson to dive into the story of how a current employee came to make such a shocking admission.
When he made the confession that Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine was neither safe nor effective, Rys was unaware that he was the victim of a sting operation. He thought he was just getting ice cream with a pretty girl at Coney Island. Little did he know his date was an undercover journalist working for O’Keefe Media Group.
Jill plays the video footage capturing Rys casually admitting Johnson & Johnson knew their vaccine was bad from the outset.
“Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products?” Rys asked his date. “None of that stuff was safe and effective.”
“People wanted it; we gave it to them,” he added, casually eating ice cream. “It’s like, all right, you know what? The cancer patient’s gonna die anyway.”
Rys is not a “low-level guy,” says O’Keefe. “This guy is the lead regulatory scientist for Johnson & Johnson in Brunswick, New Jersey, where he’s responsible for making sure that the product is safe and effective for consumers.”
Later, O’Keefe confronted Rys in person about his comments, but he tried to hide in a bathroom. When that failed, Rys “tried to manipulate [O’Keefe] to get [him] to not run the story.”
Rys and others caught in OMG’s undercover operations “tend to lie in public and be honest in private,” O’Keefe says, but Rys lied even when he was caught.
“That’s symbolic of the entire system right now,” Peterson says.
“The system is completely broken, and the cavalier way in which he just admits that it’s all a lie. And even the metaphor of him engorging himself with ice cream,” O’Keefe sighs. “How do these people sleep at night?”
While O’Keefe has no power to put Rys or others who have been caught making incriminating statements in jail, he is happy to continue being the “public sunlight,” which he says is perhaps the “best disinfectant” there is.
“I think the shame and the righteous indignation and the truth perhaps is most important,” he tells Jill and Peterson.
O’Keefe remains relentless in his pursuit of truth. To hear about OMG’s newest development — an investigative journalism program called “American Swiper” — watch the episode above.
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5 things to know about Jill Biden’s gay tyrant fixer, Anthony Bernal
For years, conservatives have pointed out that Joe Biden, with his health in clear decline, could not have been in control of the presidency. And after a Project Veritas exposé that revealed the truth about Biden’s presidency, they’ve been vindicated.
“The actual shadow president of the United States — the man controlling Joe Biden — was Anthony Bernal,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”
Garrett Ziegler, founder of the opposition research nonprofit Marco Polo, has done his research on the mysterious Bernal and likens him to chambermaids of the past.
“In the days of the absolute monarchs of Europe, they had what was called a chambermaid, and essentially this was a male who had been castrated — he was basically a eunuch — and his job was to guard the queen,” Ziegler explains.
“They castrated him because that would take away any ability for him to pose a threat to the king, and I know this is a somewhat unique analogy, but that’s essentially what Bernal was,” he continues.
“Five foot four, diminutive, quiet, homosexual man who was with Jill Biden every hour of the day,” he adds. “This is a guy who goes dress shopping with the First Lady. This is very, very atypical in American history.”
And reporter Steven Nelson uncovered even more disturbing dirt on Bernal.
“Steven Nelson had there on record quotes from current staffers under Anthony Bernal, saying he’s screaming at them during the day, making weird sexual comments to men in the office. This is not my reporting — this is Steven Nelson’s, and it’s been published in the New York Post,” Ziegler explains.
“I mean, all of this is fascinating, especially because we have, up until now, zero idea that this person kind of even exists, let alone the amount of power that he has,” Wheeler chimes in. “He’s been described as an enforcer, as a fixer, as a gatekeeper. As you mentioned, he’s openly gay. Politico once described him as the Meryl Streep of the Biden family.”
“He allegedly asked members of the Biden staff — male members — or described, questioned, speculated about the size of their genitalia,” she continues.
“This guy is totally out of control,” Ziegler says, adding, “And you know, he’s still being paid by the taxpayer. I confirmed this.”
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Project Veritas TRICKS David Hogg; exposes Biden’s hidden puppet master
Project Veritas has dropped yet another undercover video, this time tricking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg into revealing secrets regarding former President Joe Biden’s mental decline as well as who was really running the show.
“The foundational question for me is, like, how corrupt is the DNC if so many people knew, or few people knew, about Biden?” the undercover journalist asked Hogg.
“I think the fact of the matter is the DNC is always going to be a campaign arm of the president ultimately. The bigger issue was like the inner circle that was around Biden,” Hogg replied, adding, “Like Jill Biden’s chief of staff had an enormous amount of power.”
Former White House employee Deterrian Jones was also duped by the undercover journalist, chiming in that he would “avoid” Anthony Bernal, Jill Biden’s chief of staff, as he was “scary.”
“He’s just a shadowy, Wizard of Oz-type figure,” Jones told the undercover reporter. “I knew how he looked, but the general public wouldn’t know how this man looked. But he wielded an enormous amount of power. And I can’t stress to you how much power he had at the White House.”
“This one was a very interesting one,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says. “It was a male undercover journalist who somehow was able to seduce, or otherwise convince, David Hogg.”
“Maybe we need to start talking to Anthony Bernal,” she continues. “He’s a veteran staffer of both the Obama and Clinton administrations, he was Biden’s deputy campaign manager during the 2024 presidential campaign.”
Gonzales also notes that Bernal was “only one of four aids at the Rehoboth Beach House on July 18, when Biden was coerced to withdraw from the election.”
“So very clearly a part of the inner, inner circle, part of the very, very big decision for Joe Biden to step down and/or at least withdraw his name from the 2024 campaign,” she adds.
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David Hogg targets Pelosi, unwittingly deals Democrats more damage ahead of likely DNC ouster
Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg has proven an effective albeit unwitting saboteur on the left. In addition to spilling the beans about who was really running the Biden White House, the 25-year-old gun control activist hammered California Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) for her alleged insider trading in newly released undercover footage from Project Veritas.
Hogg, warned not to challenge Democratic incumbents earlier this year by DNC Chairman Ken Martin, appears to say in the newly released video, "I would say Pelosi's actually very good at her job. I don't agree with the stock-trading stuff."
"I mean, she gets better returns than almost every hedge fund in this city, every year," continued Hogg. "Some of these members of Congress make trades that are way too well timed to not have insider knowledge."
Pelosi, whose annual salary is now around $174,000, has a net worth of $260.37 million, according to Quiver Quantitative.
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"They happen to be some of the best financial analysts in human history," quipped Hogg, who is facing a potential ouster next month after party elites effectively declared his election null and void.
'I just want to burn everything down.'
In his Blaze Originals documentary, "Bought and Paid For: How Politicians Get Filthy Rich," James Poulos, the host of BlazeTV's "Zero Hour" and the editor at large of Blaze Media, highlighted some of the "most egregious transactions" members of Congress have directly or indirectly pulled off in recent years — like making big investments in defense contractors on the eve of the war in Ukraine — without remorse or consequence.
A financial disclosure signed on July 2, 2021, by Nancy Pelosi revealed that her husband bet big on Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple stock ahead of the House Judiciary Committee's vote on antitrust legislation that threatened to limit how those companies organized. According to Bloomberg, Mr. Pelosi's trade secured him a $4.8 million gain.
In September, President Donald Trump demanded that Pelosi be prosecuted for alleged insider trading after her husband dumped 2,000 of his shares in Visa — valued at roughly $500,000 — two months before the company was sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly monopolizing the debit markets. Visa stock dropped by 5% following the announcement of the DOJ's civil antitrust suit.
There are many more such cases of conveniently timed bets and dumps, not just from the Pelosi household but by others in Congress as well.
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Multiple bills have been introduced in recent years that would ban congressional stock trading, including Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley's Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act — or PELOSI Act for short.
While Hogg apparently shares the concern expressed by Trump and other Republicans, it's not a battle he's willing to fight.
Hogg told the Project Veritas journalist, "The hardest part about my job is I just want to burn everything down because it's all so corrupt. But you got to pick your battles and slowly build your momentum."
The DNC vice chair noted that even if he tried to hold Pelosi accountable, "we wouldn't beat her." He suggested that it was instead preferable to go after members who "are far weaker."
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EXCLUSIVE: Why was Pelosi’s ‘fixer’ at Jan. 6?
Blaze News’ Steve Baker has done it again, this time exposing Aaron Black, whom he has dubbed "Pelosi’s precious," for allegedly lying about his role at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“This will just piss you off,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” says in response to Baker’s findings, adding, “It pissed me off for a couple of reasons. One, it is so evil.”
The second reason, Glenn says, is that “this guy never came up on our radar as connected to anything,” but Baker has discovered just how connected he really is.
“I started looking at him. The more I did, the more interesting he got. The more research I did, the more people I had to bring in, too, because this guy’s dark, and we had to go and actually scrape the dark, dark web for him,” Baker explains.
“There were some Project Veritas videos out there from 2016, where he was caught in one of their stings actually admitting to the fact that he and his guys were responsible for the violence at a Donald Trump rally in 2016,” he continues, noting that he was also an agitator at Occupy Wall Street. “So this is what this guy has been an expert at, creating these types of situations throughout his entire career.”
“Then all of a sudden, he re-emerges as quote-unquote ‘senior political adviser’ at Team Pelosi,” he says, noting that there’s even an image of Pelosi cradling Black’s face in her hands.
“What we believe, through our contacts, our sources, whistleblowers, both named and unnamed, is that he did in fact organize, and this is what we’ve been told, is that he had paid agitators, I didn’t say violent, people paid agitators, because his expertise is controlling the narrative,” Baker continues.
“And what did Nancy Pelosi most famously say when she set up the committee? She said that this was to ‘establish and preserve the narrative’ of that day,” he says, adding, “That’s an exact quote.”
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"'What are you going to do if they put you on leave?' I’m like, 'Go to the beach on the taxpayer’s dime.'"Michigan city officials allegedly engage in rampant voter fraud, and AG Nessel apparently knows all about it: Project Veritas
Leaders of Hamtramck, Michigan — a Muslim-majority city located within the confines of Detroit — have allegedly been operating an election fraud scheme for decades, and according to a damning report from Project Veritas, Dana Nessel, Michigan's far-left attorney general, knows all about it but has done little to stop it.
Last week, Project Veritas released on social media a video containing elaborate statements from various people familiar with the municipal election processes in Hamtramck, including former Mayor Karen Majewski, former clerk of Hamtramck and current clerk of nearby Fraser August Gitschlag, and former city council candidate Lynn Blasey.
'Harvesters' target ethnic communities
'Give it up, sign the envelope, give me the ballot.'
Gitschlag explained to the undercover Project Veritas reporter that many Hamtramck candidates "bully" and exploit local Bengali and Yemeni residents by harvesting their ballots or those of their relatives and threatening their livelihoods if they don't cooperate.
"Voter fraud happens in small ethnic communities where someone is more assimilated. They can run the show, intimidate," Gitschlag said.
That person can then say, "If you don't vote for me, your cousin has nowhere to live next year when he comes in. I'll shut it down,'" he continued.
After collecting absentee ballot applications and dropping them off at city hall, "harvesters" then return to each person's house and demand the absentee ballot and envelope, Gitschlag claimed. "They say, 'Give it up, sign the envelope, give me the ballot.'"
He claimed that the scheme is "easy" and previously played out in Ukrainian, Polish, and Bosnian immigrant communities.
Both Majewski and Blasey made similar remarks about the ethnic nature of the scheme.
"The Bangladeshi did it, started doing it," Majewski said. "Oh yeah, they started it before the Yemeni."
"They'll hire black people to go to black houses," Blasey said. "They hire Bangladeshi people to go to Bangladeshi houses."
"They strategically cheat," she continued. "... They target families that don't care or don't know the voting process. So, like, newer immigrants that just don't know."
Ballot harvesting is illegal in Michigan. State law strictly limits the people who may mail a completed absentee ballot to: the voter, a member of the voter's immediate family, a member of the voter's household, an election official from the voter's jurisdiction, and a mail carrier performing his or her official duties.
Candidates allegedly directly involved
Not only do some Hamtramck officials appear to be harvesting ballots, but they may even be filling them out on behalf of voters.
"The absentee ballots are being filled out in people's dining rooms by the candidates," Majewski said.
"They sit around the kitchen table."
Blasey even alleged that some candidates participated in an event dubbed the "Midnight Meeting," where ballots are auctioned off. According to the Project Veritas journalist, she identified City Councilman Mohammed Hassan and Mayor Pro-Tempore Abu Musa as two of the worst offenders.
The reporter then spoke with Musa, who indicated he had heard that Hassan had once paid for 300 ballots but didn't have "proof." He also did not deny the Midnight Meeting allegations, Project Veritas noted.
Project Veritas also called Hassan and Musa separately and claimed to have some "blank" ballots available.
"This is a trap. We have to see the name, is it Muslim or not?" the person identified as Hassan replied. "If it is not signed – OK, give me the address. I’ll go there. If it’s everything good, we can drop to the city hall. City hall parking lot has the box, we can drop it to there."
The man identified as Musa told the caller: "You touched my heart, brother. Thank you very much. Listen, I’ll come up. I’ll meet you. How about this evening?"
'You need these people's votes, right? So, who's going to say brown-skinned people are, you know, doing voter fraud?'
On video, Blasey, Gitschlag, and Majewski also alleged that some candidates do not actually live in Hamtramck, which, according to Majewski, is also "illegal."
"They have a house homesteaded here," Gitschlag stated, "but they live in, like, Warren, where their kids go to school."
A persistent problem with no solution in sight
Majewski told Project Veritas that this has been an ongoing problem for 20 years, and Gitschlag claimed he turned some individuals in more than a decade ago, when he was still Hamtramck clerk, for mishandling absentee ballots.
"I'm a Democrat, and I've busted other Democrats," he said.
The Hamtramck Review confirmed that Gitschlag helped an investigation of illegal ballot harvesting that ultimately led to felony convictions for four Bangladeshi-Americans. However, the offenders paid a fine and never served jail time.
To this day, Majewski believes that ballot harvesting caused her to lose her 2021 re-election bid to Mayor Amer Ghalib, then a political neophyte, telling the Project Veritas reporter that she is "absolutely positive that that happened."
In 2020, Ghalib apparently admitted to engaging in voter fraud.
"There were 20 people around me planning to vote for Biden because they loved Obama," he said at the time, according to the Federalist. "I got them to vote for Sanders and did their families’ ballot cards myself."
Majewski also insisted that many law enforcement agencies and officials, both state and federal, know all about the voter fraud scandal but so far have done nothing about it.
"Nessel's involved, and I think the feds are involved," she said. "... Investigating voter fraud."
"You need these people's votes, right? So, who's going to say brown-skinned people are, you know, doing voter fraud?"
Gitschlag is more optimistic, assuring the Project Veritas reporter that news of an investigation into the issue would hit the papers "soon."
The Review and the Federalist spoke with Gitschlag and Blasey about the Project Veritas report. Both expressed frustration about unwittingly giving statements to an undercover reporter, but both stand by what they said.
"I am upset about the smarmy underhanded Project Veritas tactics to get information I have been telling people for a year," Gitschlag told the Review.
"I stand by what I said, because I have been saying it for years," he added to the Federalist. "I do stand by the content."
"I firmly stand by my words," Blasey told the Federalist.
In a statement to the Review, Majewski admitted that voter fraud in Hamtramck "has been common knowledge for years." She also slammed Project Veritas and other "right wing outlets" looking to "divide progressives while overlooking the real threats to election integrity coming from their own ideological supporters."
Ghalib and Nessel did not respond to a request for comment from the Federalist.
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