The conservative group Project Veritas and its former leader are taking the unusual step of publicly acknowledging that claims of ballot mishandling at a Pennsylvania post office in 2020 were untrue.

The statements from Project Veritas and founder James O’Keefe came as a lawsuit filed against them by a Pennsylvania postmaster was settled Monday.

The group produced videos in the wake of the 2020 presidential election based on claims from a postal worker in Erie, Pennsylvania, who said he had overheard a conversation between the postmaster and a supervisor about illegally backdating mail-in presidential ballots.

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    These jackasses have been caught lying before, and yet they’re still around peddling their obvious lies.

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        The chairman and CEO was also accused of spending “an excessive amount of donor funds” on personal luxuries.

        Ah yes. Grifters gonna grift.

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          It’s genuinely funny to me that one of O’Keefe’s major sins in the eyes of his conservative donors was being such a theater kid he staged a musical hagiography of himself.

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      Guarantee you won’t find this anywhere on Fox news. This will not penetrate the right wing media sphere, and for good reason.

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        Nah. The line will be “the liberal courts forced them to say it. They don’t actually mean it.” And they’ll still get full support