Spreading butyric-acid stink bombs through ventilation systems and triggering fire-alarm sprinklers at the National Press Club are among the dirty tricks discussed by activists bent on disrupting Trump inauguration events, according to undercover video shot by James O’Keefe’s group, Project Veritas.
“If you had a pint of butyric acid, I don’t care how big the building is, it is closing,” a man Veritas identifies as Luke Kuhn says on the video recorded on Dec. 18 in Washington D.C.
Kuhn, filmed strategizing with two other men Veritas says belong to the DC Anti-Fascist Coalition, later in the video discusses how to respond to city officials who might try to thwart efforts to disrupt the inauguration. “The message has to be, we do not recognize the city government either," he says. "If you try to close us down we will look for your house. We will burn it. We will physically fight the police if they try to steal one of our places. We will go to war and you will lose.”
Like other controversial video packages released by O’Keefe – including those focused on National Public Radio and Democratic efforts to disrupt Trump campaign events – this latest report is heavily edited. Then again, so is almost every video news package.
The DC Anti-Fascist Coalition’s website is calling for a protest at a pro-Trump celebration – the Deploraball – scheduled at the press club on Jan. 19. It also advises: “We ask that protesters, do not under any circumstances initiate any violence, but protect one another and practice self-defense.”
Claiming its undercover video captures activists planning possible acts of terror, Project Veritas says it has “met with agents from the FBI, Secret Service and D.C. Metro Police to report our findings.”
