On Tuesday, the group Democracy Partners severed ties with a regional contractor named Scott Foval, who was captured on a secretly recorded video talking about sending people to Donald Trump events to get Trump supporters to "pop off" and hit them, with the purported goal of making Trump look bad. Foval was also fired from Americans United for Change, the group under contract to Democracy Partners, which in turn was hired by the Democratic National Committee. "It's a matter of showing up, to want to get into their rally, in a Planned Parenthood T-shirt, or 'Trump is a Nazi,' you know," Foval is recorded saying. "You can message to draw them out, and draw them out to punch you."
The man who hired Foval, Democratic operative Robert Creamer, said that Foval was engaging in "unprofessional and careless hypothetical conversations" and that "none of the schemes described in this video ever took place." Creamer, who is married to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), also stepped down from his role working with the DNC and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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