Seven Days in May

Waiting for the Bombshells: O'Keefe, Trump, Alex Jones

James O’Keefe, best known from the muckraking team at Project Veritas until his ouster and now running the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), has broken a lot of big stories as an undercover journalist. That’s what he’d be called if he worked for the mainstream media. Since he’s a conservative and highly effective at his job, he’s often called a conspiracy theorist guilty of selective editing (something 60 Minutes would know nothing about…), working under “false pretenses” (undercover journalism), and being a subservient goon carrying water for Trump. His stories have been described as “stunts.” But over the years, he’s had some big stories. In fact, this is a highly abbreviated list of some of O’Keefe’s more memorable efforts in bringing truth to Democrats.

• In 2007, O’Keefe went undercover and offered to donate to Planned Parenthood under the condition that the donations would be used to abort only minority babies. He said there were “too many Black people in Ohio.” He did this at multiple Planned Parenthood offices, and they all accepted his terms and his money. He got it on video.

• In 2009, he broke a story on Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), catching staffers of guiding people into illegal tax moves and unethical behaviors. Obama had ties to ACORN, all of which he denies, while praising the group. A Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said ACORN did not criminally wrong, because, well, New York is a third world country unto itself.

• In 2010, he exposed the New Jersey Teachers’ Union saying trashy things about public school students and telling a teacher who hurt a student to just “not report it.” The hurt in question was sexual assault. He got it on video and even in liberal-land, some teachers got fired.

• In 2011, there was an expose of Medicaid fraud.

• In 2014, O’Keefe got dressed up as Osama bin Laden (who was already dead at this time) and then crossed the Southern Border into and out of Mexico (both directions) to prove we had open borders. He was never apprehended or even stopped. This “stunt” was mentioned in Congress but got very little media attention. C’mon, it’s funny.

• In 2017, he got proved the CNN was biased in news coverage. OK, I admit this isn’t much of a news story. That’s like saying Jasmine Crockett uses profanity.

• In 2017, he filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against Hillary Clinton alleging a “criminal conspiracy” in the 2016 election regarding financing. You have to admit, O’Keefe is a brave man, coming after Hillary so directly.

• In 2021, his home was raided by the FBI because he was in possession of what was alleged to be Ashley Biden’s diary. It was her diary, and he was in possession of it. The problem is it is not a crime to be in possession of somebody else’s diary if you did not steal it. Contrary to allegations, O’Keefe’s team did not steal the diary. Ashley Biden had abandoned the diary in a halfway house during one of her drug rehabilitation stints. The diary was found and sold to Project Veritas because there is no law that says a person cannot hold the abandoned property of another person. O’Keefe’s team did due diligence to authenticate it. Nothing illegal happened, but the FBI paid O’Keefe a home visit and demanded the diary. One journalist organization called the raid “a dangerous precedent.” Kind of makes the Democrats look like nazis, doesn’t it?

• In 2024, O’Keefe sued the United States Post Office for improper handling of mail-in ballots during the 2020 election. He lost.

This is a cherry-picked list. O’Keefe has been raking muck since 2006. He’s been sued and countersued, threatened, pushed around, and even fired from the very company he founded. He’s been accused of being a hyper-conservative, unethical, unfair, being a purveyor of “entrapment entertainment,” and guerilla journalism.

T-Minus Seven

On April 30, 2025, a somber-looking James O’Keefe in a dark suit made a short video where he announced he was “not suicidal.” He asked for prayers, said he was going dark, and there would soon be a release of what he called a “big story.” Considering what O’Keefe considers to be a routine story, this has to be something pretty shocking.

Controversial podcaster Alex Jones went on air on May 3 and announced that he had the kill switch, meaning that even if something happened to O’Keefe, the documents or videos or whatever he had would be released anyway.

It’s like the old Q-board used to tell us: Nothing can stop what’s coming.

When O’Keefe made his “going dark” announcement, he said, “T-minus seven days.” Seven days puts us at May 7, which is today. James O’Keefe’s team issued a post on social media on his behalf today saying, “It all starts this Wednesday.”

Given that James O’Keefe is an outrageous media-savvy player, good at theatrics, and has always been able to gin up lots of media attentions, maybe this is just one big tease. Or maybe it’s real.

“As Big As It Gets”

Then yesterday, May 6, Donald Trump said he will be making a big announcement soon that is “as big as it gets.” Granted, Trump is no stranger to grandstanding, hype, hyperbole, and working social media. Is this just another tease?

Trump said his announcement would be “one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject.” That’s from the New York Times. In other words, Trump is giving us no hints. This could be about anything. But considering he’s shut down USAID, banned transgenders from military service, changed the name of the gulf to the Gulf of America, argued that Canada and Greenland should become part of the United States, closed the Southern Border, and launched a complicated tariff war, this announcement has to be bigger than that.

Are these two announcements (Trump and O’Keefe) related? I’ve heard a lot of rumors. Maybe it’s the Epstein files, which the government is now gradually admitting might not even exist thanks to paper-shredding technology. Maybe it’s corruption, but uncovering government corruption is getting to be a daily thing. Could it be something about COVID? O’Keefe hasn’t done a story on COVID that I know of. What could be so big that O’Keefe fears for his life?

Seven Days in May

This reminds me of an old movie (1964) called Seven Days in May. Based on an even older novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey from 1962, it’s the story of how an evil general and the military behind him tried to overthrow the U.S. government. An aide to the evil general accidentally uncovers the plot, alerts the president, and the countdown starts. The movie is about white hats trying to save the Constitution from a military dictatorship. Sort of like what’s happening now except instead of Democrats, it’s the military.

This novel reportedly scared John F. Kennedy, who was once asked if such a thing could actually happen. Kennedy answered, “It’s possible.” Ironically, Kennedy was assassinated before the movie came out.

I’m sure O’Keefe realized that May 7 is a date that intersects with that novel and movie (the movie stars Burt Lancaster as the black hat, and Kirk Douglas and Fredric March as the white hats).

While we wait for the world’s biggest news ever (yawn?), let me go through a few ruminations. What if this is a Seven Days in May scenario?

• Trump’s Cabinet is jam-packed with controversial hardliners. But have you noticed that it is Pete Hegseth who is bearing the brunt of liberal rage? Since when do liberals even notice the Pentagon? They did not even realize that Llloyd Austin, the former Department of Defense Secretary (SecDef), absented himself from service and the public eye for weeks to deal with an undisclosed case of cancer. But SecDef Hegseth is scrutinized all day every day. Why? Maybe the black hats (liberals) know that the big scandal they’re hiding is in the Pentagon.

• There’s a whole lot of money missing from the Pentagon and the Department of Defense. It’s one thing to lose a billion here or there; in America, we’re used to that level of thievery among our overlords. But the Pentagon has $4T in assets and they can’t account for 63% of it. They haven’t passed an audit in seven years. Call me a conspiracy theorist or a MAGA cultist, but that seems slightly suspicious.

• Yesterday Hegseth asked that 20% of all four-star generals be cut. We have 38 active four-star general across all branches of service, so this means seven or eight of them have to go. This seems an odd thing to suddenly implement. Beyond that, Hegseth is culling a lot of people out of the upper crust of the military. That may be just business as usual (they say it’s streamlining and reorganization) or maybe it’s a pre-emptive strike.

• In October 2024, General Michael Flynn said that he wanted accountability to come to the military, even including military tribunals, but he said nothing could be done until MAGA was back in the White House. “These people [the military] are already up to no good,” Flynn said while Joe Biden and his autopen were ruining the nation. “So we gotta win first. We win, and … believe me, the gates of hell will be unleashed.” Flynn is a military insider. This sounds like he knows where some bodies are buried. Whether the O’Keefe announcement has to do with the military or not, there are likely military scandals to unfold.

• Trump has donated to O’Keefe’s foundations in the past and they are known as allies. It is very likely that if O’Keefe is doing something this monumental, Trump knows about it.

• There are a few rumors on X that it is not one story O’Keefe is about to reveal but rather two. It is not known if they are connected. It is also not clear if the Trump story and the O’Keefe bombshells have anything to do with each other.

Bombshells Away

Ricochet Café is waiting to hear what O’Keefe has to say. Maybe this is all theatrics for a big fat nothing-burger. As much as we enjoy hype, humor, and hyperbole here, maybe they’re just yanking our chain. However, Trump and O’Keefe have a history of delivering in the past. And most of them are busy men who don’t really have time to fritter away in stupid pranks.

The seven days in May seems sort of like a clue. T-minus seven.

Maybe it will not turn out to be such a monumental deal. But even O’Keefe’s “little stories” would be blockbusters in the New York Times or Washington Post, so maybe it’s beyond huge.

O’Keefe asked for prayers, there’s a kill switch on the story, and we’ve been promised something today. Donald Trump has teased that his announcement is something wonderful while O’Keefe seems to position his story as something that puts him in danger.

We’re waiting.