An undercover video released Tuesday by Project Veritas reportedly shows a national security correspondent for The New York Times saying the media coverage of the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot was “overblown”.
In the video, correspondent Matthew Rosenberg claims that “there were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the capitol”.
“I know I’m supposed to be traumatized,” Rosenberg said, “but like, all these colleagues who were in the (Capitol) building and are like, ‘Oh my God it was so scary!’ I’m like, ‘f**k off!'”.
According to Project Veritas, Rosenberg previously said the event was “a violent interruption to the transition of power,” but explained “It was like, me and two other colleagues who were there outside and we were just having fun”.
Rosenberg said his workplace is “not the kind of place where I can tell someone to man up,” but added “I kind of want to be like, ‘dude come on, you were not in any danger'”.
He also called out two of his colleagues for pushing the experience as “traumatic”. “These f**king little dweebs who keep going on about their trauma … Shut the f**k up. They’re f**king b**ches,” he said.
At one point the undercover Project Veritas reporter and Rosenberg discuss the narrative that the left has pushed about Jan. 6.
“The left’s reaction to it, in some places, was so over the top,” Rosenberg said, adding that “They were making it too big a deal”. “They were making this some organized thing that it wasn’t”.
During the video, Rosenberg also mentions that “There were a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol”.