WorldNetDaily columnist Jack Cashill loves his conspiracy theories, no matter how discredited they are. in his Aug. 7 column, he attacked mail-in ballots, which he derisively called “granny farming,” and cited a story from Minnesota in an attempt to bash Democratic vice presidential candidate Mike Walz:
In 2020, with COVID as an excuse, Minnesota ignored the warnings of Jimmy Carter and the New York Times and bet the farm on granny farming.
“There is a change to Minnesota state election law that help these elections be safer, read one official document. “The main part of the bill focuses on absentee voting. The bill provides money to promote using absentee so people can vote from home.” Gov. Tim Walz signed the bill into law, and Democratic operatives immediately went to work, especially in Minneapolis’s large Somali community.
In September 2020, James O’Keefe went public with Project Veritas’s research into the states’ industrial-strength “granny farming.” Aiding the Project Veritas team were a few undercover journalists from within that community alarmed by the Democrats’ exploitation of their countrymen.
Exploiting immigrant voters, it should be noted, is nothing new. Democrats have held a near monopoly on urban vote fraud since at least the mid-nineteenth century when Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall mastered the art of picking winners.
As Democratic and media interests began to meld, however, journalists stopped seeing fraud, let alone exposing it. As the November election approached, the media would ignore Jimmy Carter’s cautions and treat each Democratic vote as though Jesus Christ Himself had notarized it.
In 2020 in Minneapolis, Project Veritas was serving much the same role as the Times did in the Boss Tweed era. Thanks to undercover video, Veritas captured several financial exchanges between harvesters and voters, but Veritas’s biggest catch was a video shot by a harvester himself.
The harvester was Liban Osman, an ally of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the brother of Jamal Osman then running for city council in an early special election.
One video, posted on Snapchat, showed Osman sorting through a stack of ballots the way he might a roll of bills. “Two in the morning,” he sang as he sorted. “Still hustling.”
On camera, Osman boasted about a practice that would have made Boss Tweed blush. “Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie,” said Osman. “You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these. My car is full.”
Osman did not expect the video to fall into enemy hands, but it did. A Project Veritas source was following Osman’s Snapchat account and captured his video.
Through a variety of friendly channels, millions of Americans saw the Project Veritas videos. The chicanery they showed was too obvious and too consequential to ignore or defend.
Just one problem: This story turned out to be a fraud. As we documented when WND first embraced this story, Liban Osman said he was offered $10,000 by Omar Jamal — who was prominently in Project Veritas videos but later backtracked on claims he made and now says he hasn’t met anyone who received cash in exchange for a vote — to claim he was taking part in voter fraud for Omar. Furthert, the video clips Cashill is promoting were heavily edited. Rather than admit the truth, Cashill whined that the bogus operation was fact-checked:
Reinforcing the deception was the left’s “fact-checking” apparatus. A typical headline, this one from USA Today, read, “Fact Check: No Proof of Alleged Voter Fraud Scheme or Connection to Rep. Ilhan Omar.”
Thanks to social media, millions of Americans witnessed not only a flagrant vote fraud scheme, but also a coordinated media campaign to bury the fraud.
That campaign involved the Democratic Party, the major media, academia, the local media, and their “fact-checking” allies. Months later, the pre-Musk Twitter got in on the game, permanently banning Project Veritas.
This coordinated mischief paid off. The Democrats got 350,000 more votes for their barely functional 2020 candidate than they did for their popular 2016 candidate, an astonishing 26 percent improvement. Cashill further whined that “Walz signed another bill into law that would allow more than 50,000 Minnesotans on parole, probation, or community release due to felony convictions to vote. Say what you will, but Wall and the Democrats understand their base.” Cashill didn’t explain why such people should be prohibited from voting.
That wasn’t the only false conspiracy theory Cashill has been trying to revive. He started his Sept. 25 column by talking about sexual abuse allegations against Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, taking things to an old conspiratorial direction:
Having established that, yes, Democrats are capable of running secret sex rings, it might be time to reexamine the most hush-hush Democratic sex scandal of all, “Pizzgate.”
In researching my book “Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6,” I took my first serious look at this potential scandal.
I say “potential” because an event becomes a “scandal” only when the New York Times calls it a “scandal” on its front page. “Diddygate” has crossed this Rubicon. “Pizzagate” is nowhere close.
[…]In fact, the Q phenomenon does have a strong association with Pizzagate, the reputed high-level ring of pedophiles that involves, most prominently, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chair.
The Left, of course, ridicules Pizzagate, and the respectable conservative media dare not even mention it, but before readers dismiss it, they might watch the movie “Out of Shadows.”
Cashill then did a copy-and-paste from an April column in which he touted this film and its star, Liz Crokin, in which former Clinton official John Podesta is smear as a pedophile, adding that Crokin’s “deconstruction of the coded language in the Podesta emails obtained by Wikileaks could make Hillary sweat.” As we pointed out at the time, neither Crokin nor Cashill offered any evidence that Pizzagate is real; indeed, Crokin has discredited herself by recklessly accusing various people of being pedophiles. As far as “Out of Shadows” goes, it’s a deceptive piece of crap; as one observer noted, it “blends real historical events with imagined ones, leaning on the authenticity of the former to justify the wild extrapolations of the latter,” using the Jeffrey Epstein scandal to try and prove that Pizzagate is real.
Cashill concluded with a flurry of alleged guilt-by-association connections — just what you’d expect from a reckless conspiracy theorist who doesn’t actually care whether what he says is true.