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Some of you may have heard that James O’Keefe is back with yet another hidden camera bombshell. It shows a couple of Democratic operatives—Robert Creamer and Scott Foval—allegedly boasting about disrupting Trump rallies and committing voter fraud. O’Keefe’s record on this stuff is dicey enough that I’m not willing to waste any time with it myself, but here is Dave Weigel’s summary:

For now, that’s my take too. The video is heavily edited, and O’Keefe has refused to release the raw footage. I think we can all guess what that means.