Joe Schnitt and the Honeytrap

     In the novel I'm writing, Ink and Iron, I've just recently written a passage hat seems perfectly apt to this late-breaking news story. It's a third person reflection by Vince Callahan, a media-hating, cynical strike-breaker in 1919 Boston. He says, "If you can’t beat them, rather than join them, find a way to make the jackals work for you for a change."

     I never considered Jailbird James O'Keefe a journalist in any way, shape or form. He's the right wing bomb-thrower who literally wiped ACORN off the map with a heavily edited video that made Republicans lose their shit in a defunding frenzy. He once broke in Senator Mary Landrieu's office in Louisiana and tried to bug her phones. And his antics and personal corruption were such that Project Veritas, his own organization, kicked him out a few years ago.

     However, this time around, we actually found a use for this idiot.

     The screengrab that you see above is from the official Twitter account of the DOJ. God only knows why they actually posted this confession on social media but there it is.

     It's a confession and quasi-apology written by one Joseph Schnitt, the DOJ's acting deputy chief at the Office of Enforcement Operations. In this strange confession, Schnitt tells his boss, Jeffrey Pollak, the Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Enforcement Operations, that he was caught in a honey trap.

     He admits to meeting a woman named "Skylar" on a dating app named Hinge (her profile, not surprisingly, disappeared). He met her twice last month on the 4th and the 16th. Furthermore, he goes on to admit that he told "Skylar" about Ghislaine Maxwell but was careful to add that he told her only what had been reported in the media. Except, that's not true.

     Because, you see, according to Jimmy O'Keefe, "Skylar" was a plant and Schnitt told this plant that the DOJ planned on removing the names of every Republican from the Epstein client list that Pam Bondi now claims doesn't exist and to leave in the names of Democrats and liberals.

      Since Republicans are shameless rat fuckers, especially the ones in this administration, that's not surprising. What is surprising is that Schnitt could be so stupid to admit this to an undercover operative working for the most ham-fisted right wing provocateur on the planet, then to admit it to his boss, in a cell phone confession with a depleted battery, who then put this confession on the DOJ's Twitter account.

     Their response was incredible- In apologizing for this serious lapse in judgement and basic human intelligence, they then ran with his story that his comments were "personal thoughts" and nothing else. The DOJ never addressed the much more serious revelation that they were planning on protecting Trump and every Republican on Epstein's client list that, again, Pam Bondi now claims never existed, and to leave in just the names of Democrats.

      What else is notable is that this was turned up not by the mainstream media (except after the fact) but by a right wing boob like James O'Keefe. This alone ought to show the cracks forming in MAGAworld, that even O'Keefe is trying to take down one of Trump's operatives. Everyone, it seems, except certain Republicans at the top of the government, wants to get to the bottom of this Epstein mess.

     Obviously, people like Joe Schnitt are more successful at fucking rats than women.