Blind Date

“They matched on Tinder shortly after the November presidential election, shared their mutual disappointment about Donald J. Trump’s victory and agreed to meet for a drink. Sitting at a table at Licht Cafe, a bar on Washington’s U Street corridor, Brent Efron and his date, Brady, talked a bit about home and hobbies. But Brady — or at least that’s the name he used — repeatedly steered the conversation back to Mr. Efron’s job at the Environmental Protection Agency. ‘It was a boring date,’ Mr. Efron, 29, recalled. ‘He just wanted to talk about work.'” But this was no ordinary, boring date. “Brady left after about an hour and Mr. Efron said he barely thought about the date again. Until a video of him appeared on the website of Project Veritas, a right-wing group known for using covert recordings to embarrass political opponents. Brady, who had posed as a politically liberal commercial real estate agent and recent transplant to the capital, was actually a Project Veritas operative with a hidden camera. NYT (Gift Article) with a pretty incredible story, even by today’s standards: An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life.