Matthew Tyrmand is one of the Project Veritas board of directors, which on Monday made a series of allegations about the conduct of the organization’s founder and now-former CEO James O’Keefe.
According to tax-exemption filings with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2019, Tyrmand is listed as a director of Project Veritas, along with Colin Sharkey and John K. Garvey. More recent records are not listed.
George Skakel was identified by Intelligencer as another long-serving board member. He is not listed on recent IRS filings for Project Veritas, but is listed as a director on filings for Project Veritas Action, a related organization, along with Joseph Barton.
Many angered by the departure of O’Keefe on social media have blamed Tyrmand.
Michael Swartz, found of frat gear providers Old Row, claimed Tyrmand was the “ringleader” in a “coup” that led to the ousting of O’Keefe. Tyrmand was also fingered as leading the alleged coup by Alex Bruesewitz, a conservative political strategist.
Tyrmand has worked for Breitbart. On social media, he jocularly describes himself as a New York City “public school survivor” and “Deputy Minister at Ministry of Sillywalks.” According to his LinkedIn profile, he attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, before studying at the University of Chicago.
After spending time at several finance firms in the noughties, from 2012 he has provided consulting for companies and think tanks through Matthew Tyrmand LLC, listed as being located in lower Manhattan.
In September 2013, Tyrmand published a book about his life as the son of Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jewish novelist from Warsaw who published Zły (The Man With White Eyes, in English), a bestseller, and was active in the Polish jazz scene as well as being described as an anti-communist.
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Conservatives on social media have also been critical of his recent comments about Donald Trump. Speaking on the Patriot Talk Show at a Florida’s Voice panel on February 7, Tyrmand said Trump “does not belong in this [2024 presidential] race,” accusing the former president of “flailing around” and showing “total clown behavior.”
