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PBS attorney Michael Beller shared remarks regarding Trump supporters, suggesting they should be put in re-education camps, according to Fox News.
“What are you going to do if we don’t win?” the undercover journalist asks.
“Go to the White House and throw Molotov cocktails,” Beller responds.
Project Veritas, headed by guerilla journalist James O’Keefe, has made several headlines in recent years for its efforts to “expose” news organizations.
Project Veritas shared that the PBS PressRoom said, “This employee no longer works for PBS. As a mid-level staff attorney, he did not speak on behalf of our organization, nor did he make any editorial decisions.”
PBS response to Project Veritas: "This employee no longer works for PBS. As a mid-level staff attorney, he did not speak on behalf of our organization, nor did he make any editorial decisions…” (1/3)
— PBS PressRoom (@PBSPressRoom) January 12, 2021
“There is no place for hateful rhetoric at PBS, and this individual’s views in no way reflect our values or opinions,” the statement continued. “We strongly condemn violence and will continue to do what we have done for 50 years – use our national platform and local presence to strengthen communities and bring people together.”
“There is no place for hateful rhetoric at PBS, and this individual’s views in no way reflect our values or opinions.” (2/3)
— PBS PressRoom (@PBSPressRoom) January 12, 2021
“Even if Biden wins, we go for all the Republican voters and Homeland Security will take away their children,” Beller says in the video. “And then we’ll put them into reeducation camps.”
“Enlightenment camps,” insisting they are “nice” places with “Sesame Street characters in the classrooms and they watch PBS all day.”
“[Are we] raising a generation of intolerant, horrible people, horrible kids?” Beller wonders.
Does @PBS condone Principal Counsel Michael Beller’s radical agenda of political violence? #ExposePBS pic.twitter.com/W3R9XUCmlO
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 12, 2021
“Could you imagine if you lived in one of these other towns or states where everybody’s just … stupid?” Beller asks.
Beller celebrated the spike in coronavirus cases in “red states,” repeatedly calling the surge “great.”
“Why do you think so?” the undercover journalist asks.
“Because either those people won’t come out to vote for Trump, you know, [in] the red states, or a lot of them are sick and dying,” Beller says of Trump supporters.
Beller goes on to slam CNN, saying it “doesn’t have real news anymore.”
O’Keefe said, “In this time of moral and political crisis, I think courage is contagious, and we have all these whistleblowers coming to us, insiders helping us expose.
“We need more of these people,” O’Keefe added. “Right now, I think, is the time to be hopeful if we can create an army of exposers, because exposure itself, sunlight needs to be the best disinfectant. Exposure itself is the solution.”
From Fox News:
Elsewhere in the video, Beller shares his extreme views on what should be done with Trump’s supporters and their children.
Beller further speaks about his concerns for children who have grown up “knowing nothing but Trump for four years,” insisting “you’ve got to wonder what they’re going to be like.”
In another exchange, Beller is heard calling Americans “so f—ing dumb” and suggesting that Washington is “good to live in” and “a place where people are educated and stuff.”
