'Survivor' Contestant Worked as Undercover 'Honey Pot' Targeting Dems

[demmiblue]

Democratic campaign worker Michael Kolenc’s love life was finally looking up.

It was July 2018, and Kolenc had just been interviewed in Houston by an amateur politics podcaster named Hope Higgins. After the interview, Higgins invited him to get drinks with her, writing in an email that she would “enjoy the company.”

“She was very flirty, she would touch my arm,” Kolenc told The Daily Beast. “I was definitely picking up a more romantic feeling than a quote-unquote journalist.”

Weeks of text messaging ensued after Higgins returned home to Brooklyn. Kolenc, smitten, flew to New York to see her.

“I’m usually not that daring or romantic,” Kolenc said.

Kolenc spent a few days in New York with Higgins, but she seemed to be looking for excuses to avoid him. And after he flew back to Houston, she ghosted him.

What Kolenc once saw as a promising romance soured more than he could have imagined months later, when he received a voicemail from conservative operative James O’Keefe. Higgins had been secretly recording Kolenc during their meetings. Now the footage of Kolenc criticizing one of his former bosses, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D), was set to be released by O’Keefe.

Hope Higgins wasn’t real. Instead, the woman Kolenc knew as Hope was Anna Khait—a one-time Survivor contestant working under that alias for O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/survivor-contestant-worked-as-undercover-honey-pot-targeting-dems

[rampartc]

1. if it seems too good to be true, you are probably right.

[Klaralven]

2. "It took a toll on my mental health," Kolenc said. "It made me less trusting of people."

Less naive.

[Auggie]

3. "Who paid them to come out here, and what was the purpose?"

And this is likely just the tip of the iceberg, you know?

Wow.

[Merlot]

4. So they got a guy to criticize his former boss...wow, earth shaking undercover work

I 'm sure this will bring down careers.

Isn't recording someone without their consent illegal in some states?

[Klaralven]

6. All-Party Consent

Eleven (11) states require the consent of everybody involved in a conversation or phone call before the conversation can be recorded. Those states are: California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.These laws are sometimes referred to as “two-party” consent laws but, technically, require that all parties to a conversation must give consentbefore the conversation can be recorded.

https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RECORDING-CONVERSATIONS-CHART.pdf

[70sEraVet]

5. Even seasoned politicians can fall victim to a pretty face.

Look at Rudy!