Fake AI Biden Call Was Dirty Trick By Dem Rival’s Operative — Who Admits He Did It In Stunning Non-Apology

An operative for longshot President Joe Biden rival Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) admitted he commissioned the fake Biden AI robocall in a stunning non-apology via NBC News correspondent Alex Seitz-Wald.

Last week, a magician named Paul Carpenter claimed he was paid $150 by  Steve Kramer  — a consultant for Dean Phillips  — to create a robocall that encouraged New Hampshire voters to stay home in their state’s primary using an AI-generated version of Biden’s voice.

Phillips denied knowledge of Kramer’s actions and threatened legal action if the claim proved out.

Over the weekend, Kramer admitted he did the deed — but in an interview with Seitz-Wald, stunningly painted himself as a hero:

Kramer claimed he planned the fake robocall from the start as an act of civil disobedience to call attention to the dangers of AI in politics. He compared himself to American Revolutionary heroes Paul Revere and Thomas Paine. He said more enforcement is necessary to stop people like him from doing what he did.

“This is a way for me to make a difference, and I have,” he said in the interview. “For $500, I got about $5 million worth of action, whether that be media attention or regulatory action.”

Kramer said he came up with the idea for the hoax entirely on his own and that it had nothing to do with his client, Biden’s long-shot primary challenger, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn. Phillips had paid Kramer over $250,000 around the time the robocall went out in January, according to his campaign finance reports.

Biden won New Hampshire overwhelmingly. Despite not being on the ballot due to the state’s defiance of the Democratic National Committee’s decision to move South Carolina up to be the first-in-the-nation Democratic primary, Biden got nearly two-thirds of the vote thanks to a write-in campaign. Phillips almost cracked twenty percent, while Marianne Williamson garnered four percent.