Then in a late May board meeting, a day after Dan Strack quit, | James O'Keefe

Then in a late May board meeting, a day after Dan Strack quit, there was a stand-off where staff demanded Matt Tyrmand resign after he said he wanted to “carve out James heart and eat it in front of him.” I have a recording of that meeting and have not released it. George Skakel, previously an ally of Tyrmand, wrote a letter demanding Tyrmand resign or be fired. Tyrmand resigned in July and promised that dirt on James O’Keefe would come out to the media. Under his brief leadership, Matt Tyrmand managed to burn through $10 million I raised before I was fired. After I left, almost nothing was raised and donors demanded their money back. Matt also hired a new CEO who fired the entire staff before she, too, quit.

Coincidentally, there was a police report filed over stolen checks around the time that happened, and people are still trying to get to the bottom fo that.

Over the last year, Matt Tyrmand has sent pornographic posts and sexually harassing text messages that are so obscene I can’t post them or describe them here without the risk of being banned on this platform. I still do not understand the reason a person would be compelled to do that.

Matt Tyrmand’s initial strategy when asked by people what he was thinking, was the somewhat effective “Adam Schiff approach” -“James has done something very bad, but I can’t tell you what it is. It will come out later.” This approach was used on Trump regarding Russia by Congressman Schiff. In my case it worked on some people until they became wise to the fact Matt had already released everything he had. Whatever he knew, he would leak and share immediately. To this day, the standard response from those responsible for the destruction of Project Veritas is, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” When asked what they mean, no new justification or evidence is given. All that is provided are insults, pornographic images, and slurs. I have hundreds of these communications saved from some former employees and board members who often use anonymous phone numbers and X accounts.

I get asked every day why all of this happened.

Simply…Why?

Seven years ago, an advisor closely witnessed Matt Tyrmand’s behavior alongside me while we were together on his boat. The advisor pulled me aside one day and quietly warned me that Tyrmand “wants to be you, James. He’s jealous of you.” Looking back, I was oblivious to it, and the events described above would have been utterly inconceivable in my own mind back then. Again, I was raised to believe in the best in people. Someone taking a more Hobbesian approach to human nature would not have founded Project Veritas and would not have chosen my path.

The lesson here is how jealousy and envy can completely destroy a man in the worst way and can destroy organizations, and even movements. It is a disease in our politics, our institutions, our economics and in our humanity. Envy is the root of all socialism. Envy has led to death and destruction throughout the 20th century. Envy is inherent in human nature, and one of the very things we are fighting against.

It is a spiritual battle, a tale as old as time.

Tonight being the anniversary of that fateful board meeting when I was escorted out of the building in tears; a building that my sister, an architect, helped me construct and design back in 2015. A building that was flooded and destroyed, and had to be rebuilt again back in 2021 in the face of constant defamation, raids, and lawsuits. Things can be destroyed in a moment. It takes so much time to build.

But I am grateful to have the overwhelming toxicity removed completely from my life. The cancer is all gone. I am liberated now. My greatest mistake was not firing Dan Strack immediately when he told me in the Summer of 2022 that he would not follow my lead. I commit to you, my audience, that I will never make that mistake again.

There is more to say, but at the moment I have more pressing things to do - like produce our story for Wednesday about yet another institution we infiltrated. Footage you wouldn’t believe unless you saw.