Jill Stein paid $150,000 to a consultant who was indicted over Biden deepfake robocalls

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Business Insider

Jun 20, 2024, 5:54 PM EDT


Jill Stein's presidential campaign hired a political consultant who infamously created deepfake robocalls using President Joe Biden's voice.

The Green Party presidential candidate's campaign paid $150,015 to consultant Steve Kramer in May, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday.

Stein campaign manager Jason Call told Business Insider via text that Kramer only did petitioning work in New York, and that he was hired on contract by the campaign between April 16 and the end of May. "We did not know anything about his activities… regarding the robocalls until the petitioning period was almost over," said Call.

Despite paying a hefty sum to Kramer for help with petitioning, Stein failed to make the ballot in New York, with the state Board of Elections determining that her campaign did not submit a sufficient number of signatures.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/jill-stein-steve-kramer-biden-deepfake-robocalls-2024-6

[hlthe2b]

1. POS will do what POS's do...

(and no, I don't believe her spokesperson). Desperation breeds...

[kysrsoze]

2. Anyone at all surprised by this?

[4lbs]

3. So, he is claiming they paid more than $150K to a guy but didn't know anything about his

activities?

Mmm-hmm. Okay. Sure.

Heck, if I spend more than $100 (a hundred bucks), I want to know exactly where and what is being done with that money.

But hey, that's just me.

[LiberalFighter]

4. If I recall Jill Stein and Michael Flynn in 2015 were in Moscow

Sitting with Putin

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Yup

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696

[tanyev]

8. And they look like they're enjoying themselves.

[Traurigkeit]

25. As facists do

[betsuni]

6. But Hillary was paid for a speech. Thanks, third party idiots!

[The Wizard]

7. That would be

13,307,874.00 Russian Rubles.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Hired on 16 April, 8 weeks after it was national news that Kramer was behind the fake robocalls

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/23/politics/deepfake-robocall-magician-invs/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-robocall-new-hampshire-strategist-rcna139760
As noted on DU at the time:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218715851
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218713126

How great it must be to have a business that, even after being exposed as a fraud, can still get new $150,000 contracts from people who no doubt knew about the fakes, and saw them as a Good Thing?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. It would be great if there are records that indicate conspiracy. Er, I mean, it would be awful.

Stein should go home to Mother Russia.

[PatSeg]

10. Wait! Jill Stein is running for President again???

I honestly had no idea. So, is Putin paying her?

[Wild blueberry]

11. Not "Green Party" candidate, but Putin Party candidate

Nobody's fooled. Ugh.

[oasis]

17. Exposed!

She needs to slowly fade into a private life .
Knowing her character, she won’t.

[FakeNoose]

12. Jill Stein should just come right out and admit it ...

... she's really an undercover MAGA operative. Also she's taking money from Putin.

[Botany]

14. Any doubt that Stein's money came from Russia?

Russia has been at war on America and Western Democracies for years and Ms.
Stein is one of the soldiers in Vlad’s army as is Donny Trump along with Bannon,
Stone, and Flynn.

[MichMan]

20. Hard to say. Lots of people here donated to her fake recount in 2016

[AllaN01Bear]

15. hem. what is deep fake . need input please . thanks oh yea , snork.

[karynnj]

22. In this case, in the run up to the NH primary, he was behind robocalls using a fake Biden voice

Biden was not on the ballot because the primary was earlier than the DNC allowed. However, there was a strong independent effort to get people to write him in. The robocalls asked people in Biden's faked voice to not vote in this primary. It was found that this operative, paid by Dean Phillips, was behind this. Biden convincingly beat Marriane Williamson and Phillips. Phillips campaign was running as an alternative for people who thought Biden too old.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. thank you for your informationn.

[BootinUp]

16. Good reporting. Hope it spreads. nt

[Paladin]

19. I'll damn sure do my part. (nt)

[Prairie Gates]

18. Reimbursed by the Kremlin: A Love Story

She's a skunk.

[wolfie001]

21. Seems like her whole existence in politics is to help donald dump

via the russki disinformation highway. She's just a conduit. One of many. Everything else about her is a facade.

[Paladin]

23. How remarkably unsurprising. (nt)

[truthisfreedom]

26. If I recall, Steve Kramer has an interesting story.

If you haven’t studied exactly who he is and what he did, please do. He’s not pure evil. He may have had Joe’s best interests at heart, but judge for yourselves.

[Blue Owl]

27. K&R for exposure

[Historic NY]

28. She should be charged