Internet Explodes in Glee as Washington Post Busts Scammer Who Tried to Plant Fake Roy Moore Teen Sex Story

“I’ve accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM,” a GoFundMe post reads.

The Washington Post Monday afternoon reported its dealings with a woman who, for two weeks, its says, claimed Roy Moore impregnated her when she was 15, and she had an abortion as a result. The Post first published accounts by several women who effectively accuse Moore of being a child and teen sexual predator several weeks ago.

“In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15,” The Post reports today. “During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.”

The Post also reports she “appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.” 

It appears this was an attempt to discredit the Post’s reporting, thus giving Moore and conservatives the (false) ability to claim all the Post’s reporting on Moore was false.

(In the video above the woman talks with a Post reporter. Watch as she is vetted, given every opportunity to tell the truth, and gets her story picked apart. Towards the end she is reminded that her comments are on the recored and she is being filmed and the Post will likely be reporting on the event. She tries then to back out, but it’s too late.)

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.

The woman who claimed Moore impregnated her told the Post her name was Jaime T. Phillips. It appears she might be working with or might have ties to James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas, although O’Keefe refused to confirm or deny that to the Post. O’Keefe is behind a series of deceptively-edited videos that gave conservatives fuel to attack Planned Parenthood and ACORN.

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.

Phillips “said she had been abused as a child,” Post reporter Beth Reinhard said. “Her family had moved often. She said she moved in with an aunt in the Talladega area of Alabama and started attending a church youth group when she met Moore in 1992, the year he became a county judge. She said she was 15. She said they started a ‘secret’ sexual relationship.”

“I knew it wasn’t right, but I didn’t care,” she said.

She said that she got pregnant, that Moore talked her into an abortion, and that he drove her to Mississippi to get it.

In the interview, she told Reinhard that she was so upset she couldn’t finish her salad.

But it was a GoFundMe page created by a Jamie Phillips that led the Post to believe Phillips wasn’t telling them the truth. Here’s what the Post reports it says:

“I’m moving to New York!” the May 29 appeal said. “I’ve accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM. I’ll be using my skills as a researcher and fact-checker to help our movement. I was laid off from my mortgage job a few months ago and came across the opportunity to change my career path.”

People on Twitter exploded with glee over the catching of a scammer:

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