Packer OUR VIDEO REPORT 29—The Grand Jury Investigation

This is the story of how attorneys for the Utah anti-child-sex-slavery nonprofit—Operation Underground Railroad (OUR)—were able to kill a federal grand jury criminal investigation that was probing the organization and its founder, Tim Ballard. Ballard’s attorneys were paid more than two million dollars from donor funds to stop the probe even before FBI agents had completed their work. In the meantime, the Utah film distribution company Angel Studios bought the rights to Ballard’s movie Sound of Freedom. Angel premiered the film in sold-out theaters across the United States over the July 4th holiday. The film’s main storyline portrays Ballard’s dramatic rescue of Honduran girl who had been kidnapped and sold to a Colombian pedophile drug lord. However, as detailed in this report, the Sound of Freedom’s key plot is bogus. No girl was kidnapped and sold into sex slavery. Ballard never risked his life freeing the girl from the clutches of her captor. Ballard, the movie’s producer Eduardo Verastegui and the actor who plays Ballard, Jim Caviezel, ran a publicity campaign running up to the film’s premiere, a campaign targeted to MAGA and QAnon moviegoers. Caviezel used the marketing blitz opportunity to rehash his adrenochrome conspiracy theory while Ballard repurposed the kitty-litter-boxes-in-schools hoax as a right-wing response to schools that adopted protections for transgender students. This report runs 41 minutes.