Project Veritas reporter James O’Keefe was suspended from Twitter the night before he planned to release two undercover videos expected to disadvantage the Hillary Clinton campaign.
O’Keefe, who had already released two videos earlier in the week showing Clinton staffers condoning voter fraud, received a notification from Twitter on Wednesday evening that his account had been locked because administrators determined it violated the rules of the social media site.
The notice said O’Keefe "must delete the tweets that are in violation of our rules, which prohibit: harassing other users, threatening other users, disclosing other users’ private information."
"This is devastating to our operation," O’Keefe said in a statement Thursday. "Just like the big two presidential candidates, I rely on social media to bypass the media and directly reach the public. And it just so happens that in the last 36 hours, an extra 30,000 people decided that they wanted to hear from me."
O’Keefe said he had planned to post a "bombshell" video to Twitter before his suspension.
In one of the video’s released Wednesday, a Clinton campaign staffer said it was "fine" to rip up voter registration forms so long as the individual is a Republican. The New York Board of Elections commissioner also detailed in the video how politicians are able to commit voter fraud in the state.
The second video revealed another Clinton campaign staffer bragging that he would have to "grab ass" twice before he would be fired.
O’Keefe did release another video Thursday through the Drudge Report while he remained locked out of his Twitter account. The video showed Democratic Senate candidate Russ Feingold of Wisconsin telling donors at a fundraiser that the Democratic nominee might issue an executive order on guns.