In response to reports alleging a connection between the videos and the Trump campaign, a spokesperson for Project Veritas stated, "We have a multi-million dollar budget and the cost of this video series alone is way up there.
In an email to Associated Press, Foval said he had been set up and that, "[D]espite our attempts to redirect the conversation and actions towards positive, results-oriented, legal and ethical political organizing, O'Keefe's crew of impostors continued to walk down a path of deception and manipulation."[REF][REF][REF][REF]