Lincoln Project that Worked Mightily Against Trump Is Now Entangled in Sexual and Financial Scandals

The Lincoln Project was founded by four Republican Party consultants who became wealthy in 2020 from anti-Trump online messaging. Now they are facing two major scandals. The first involves the funding of the Lincoln Project, which raised $90-million, with more than $50-million of it going to firms controlled by its founders, while only $27-million went toward its official goals. The Lincoln Project, masquerading as a moral authority, produced ads for liberals. However, with Trump vanquished, the Lincoln Project is dispensable, and the protective shield it enjoyed may become subjected to real journalistic scrutiny. Tucker Carlson said that, rather than focusing on Trump’s policies, the Lincoln Project instead threatened Trump’s attorneys and spread filth about his aides. One Lincoln Project executive bragged: “We are constructing a database of Trump officials and staff that will detail their roles in the Trump administration & track where they are now … They will be held accountable.” Lincoln Project co-founder Steven Schmidt has resigned from the group’s board, saying that the organization has too many middle-aged white men, and he painted himself as a victim by claiming he was sexually abused at age 13.

The other scandal involves claims that co-founder John Weaver harassed and sexually solicited 21 young men, including a 14-year old boy, while the Lincoln Project knew about it. Despite the group’s emphatic denial of knowledge, six employees have asked for waivers from their non-disclosure contracts, accusing the Lincoln Project of having “protected” a “predator status.”

From ZeroHedge:

Update (1900ET): Shortly after completing this post, news broke, via Axios, that Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt is resigning from the group’s board amid a series of scandals.

As a reminder, here is what he said earlier:

“The Lincoln Project will be delighted to open its books for audit immediately after the Trump campaign and all affiliated super PACs do so,” Steve Schmidt said in response to inquiries about how much of the donations went into their personal bank accounts rather than ads designed to defeat Trump.

Maybe he didn’t like what he saw when ‘he’ opened the books?

In his statement he claims he was molested as a 13 year old. Because when all else fails, just fall back to #MeToo.

The group of life-long Republican Party consultants who, under the name “The Lincoln Project,” got very rich in 2020 with anti-Trump online messaging has spent weeks responding to numerous scandals on multiple fronts. Despite the gravity of those scandals, its conduct on Thursday night was in a whole new category of sleaze. It not only infuriated their long-time allies, but also constituted the abuse of Twitter’s platform to commit likely illegal acts.

That the primary effect of the Lincoln Project was to personally enrich its key operatives by cynically exploiting the fears of U.S. liberals has long been obvious. Reporting throughout 2020 conclusively demonstrated that the vast majority of the tens of millions of dollars raised by the group was going to firms controlled by its founders. One of its most prominent founders — GOP consultant Rick Wilson — personally collected $65,000 from liberals through GoFundMe for an anti-Trump film he kept promising but which never came; to this date, he refuses to explain what he did with that money.

study conducted after the 2020 election found that the group’s effect on the election’s outcome was trivial to non-existent — not surprising given its penchant for spending money on ads that aired in electorally irrelevant places such as Washington, D.C. or which circulated almost exclusively in liberal cable news and social media venues, and thus had no purpose other than to enable its consultants to take large commissions from the ad spending. They were producing ads solely for liberals, with the overriding intent not of defeating Trump but inflating their net worth. And it worked: until they were no longer needed.

Heading into the 2020 election, most of the U.S. media was uninterested in, if not outright hostile to, any reporting that might have helped President Trump’s re-election bid. As a result, the Lincoln Project continued to enjoy media veneration even as the magnitude of its scam became increasingly obvious. But with Trump now safely vanquished, the Lincoln Project is dispensable, and the protective shield it enjoyed against any real journalistic scrutiny is — like its reputation and prospects for future profiteering — rapidly crumbling.

On Monday, the Associated Press published a comprehensive exposé with new facts about two of the group’s growing scandals. It reported that “in June 2020, members of the organization’s leadership were informed in writing and in subsequent phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against co-founder John Weaver, including two involving Lincoln Project employees” — directly contradicting the group’s emphatic denial that it knew nothing about Weaver’s misconduct until the New York Times reported on them at the end of January. As AP delicately put it, these new materials “raise questions about the Lincoln Project’s statement last month that it was ‘shocked’ when accusations surfaced publicly this year.” The gay news outlet The Washington Blade on Tuesday published emails and other correspondence similarly demonstrating the high likelihood that the group’s denials regarding its past knowledge of Weaver’s misconduct were false, as did New York Magazine.

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White House Announces Schools Will Open One Day Per Week. Rampant Fraud at Teachers’ Unions & Among Democrat Donors Exposed

The White House has set a goal of reopening 50% of schools across the US for a minimum of one day per week. Students are falling behind scholastically, and Atlanta is requiring mandatory summer school. Jesse Watters’ report reveals that over $100-billion has been spent to reopen schools, but the biggest school districts are still closed due to pressure from teachers’ unions. (Teachers are paid even when they don’t teach.) In Chicago, there were about 2,000 cases of fraud last year, including billing fraud, payroll fraud, and even pre-school fraud. Vacation homes were traded for fat contracts. The Chicago Public School CEO is under house arrest pending resolution of charges of steering contracts and pocketing $2-million in kickbacks. An official with the union is accused of funneling $1-million to politicians who lobbied to keep schools closed. Companies run by Democrat donors were awarded lucrative contracts. Chicago announced that schools were ready to open in November, but they are stilled closed. -GEG




Israel Threatens to Abandon America and Ally with China And Russia after Securing $40B In US Aid

Last week, Israeli Knesset member Ayoob Kara, who is part of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, threatened that Israel is prepared to abandon America and ally with China and Russia if Biden “reneges on America’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and signs a nuclear deal with Iran.” In 2019, President Trump officially recognized Israeli sovereignty over the occupied oil-rich Golan Heights that was seized from Syria in 1967, despite international opposition. _GEG

America “crumbles to the ground”).

“If the United States does not continue to recognize Israel’s sovereignty in the Golan Heights and drastically changes Trump’s Iran policy, Israel will have to consider building a stronger relationship with Russia and China,” Kara said, tweeting out a picture of himself with former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.

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Michigan Senate Majority Leader Says Capitol Takeover Was ‘Staged’ and a ‘Hoax’


Michigan State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was recorded on camera telling officials from the Hillsdale County Republican Party that the Capitol takeover was “staged” and a “hoax.” He said: “That’s been a hoax from day one, that was all pre-arranged,” asserting that the violent component of the group “went in on separate buses, that were all arranged by somebody that was funding everyone.” Shirkey said that Mitch McConnell wanted it to “be a mess” so he could secure a Trump impeachment conviction. Shirkey later issued an apology for his comments but, in a subsequent statement, he said, “I frankly don’t take back any of the points I was trying to make. Some of the words I chose I do regret.” -GEG

Michigan State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was caught on camera telling officials from the Hillsdale County Republican Party that the Capitol takeover was “staged” and a “hoax.”

“It was all staged,” Shirkey says during the secretly recorded lunch meeting on Feb. 3.

In the footage, which is over an hour long, Shirkey also says that Mitch McConnell “was part of it… They wanted to have a mess” so that they could impeach Donald Trump.

The video was posted on YouTube by Hillsdale County Republican Party Secretary Jon Smith, who is upset with Shirkey for repeatedly caving to Democrats.

During the conversation, Shirkey says that the January 6 protest “wasn’t Trump people.”

“That’s been a hoax from day one, that was all pre-arranged,” Shirkey adds, asserting that the people “went in on separate buses, that was all arranged by somebody that was funding everyone.”

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New York Times Invented Story that Capitol Police Officer Was Killed by Trump Supporters

The media story that Officer Sicknick died from an attack with a fire extinguisher by a MAGA mob was the cornerstone of the impeachment charges against Donald Trump and it is the excuse for new domestic-terror laws proposed by Democrats. Tucker Carlson points out, however, that Sicknick died from a stroke, and there were no signs of trauma to his body. It was all a lie. -GEG

Summary by JW WIlliams

An article by Revolver.news states that the New York Times is the source of the narrative that MAGA supporters rioted and killed Sicknick. The New York Times wrote, “Then on Wednesday [January 6], pro-Trump rioters attacked the citadel of democracy, overpowered Mr. Sicknick, 42, and struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials. With a bloody gash on his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support. He died on Thursday evening.”

However, law enforcement officials now tell CNN that there was no fire extinguisher blow, no bloody gash, and no blunt force trauma to Sicknick’s body when he died.

Here is a list of how events unfolded, according to the Revolver article:

•  The New York Times created the ‘riot’ narrative with this headline “He Dreamed of Being a Police Officer, then He Was Killed by a Pro-Trump Mob”

•  Hours after the protest had already concluded, Sicknick texted his own brother Ken that very night he was basically fine, other than being “pepper sprayed twice,” confirming he was safe and “in good shape.”

•  The next afternoon, Thursday January 7, the Sicknick family was informed, not by law enforcement or a hospital, but by the media, that Brian Sicknic was dead.

•  Nearly an hour later, the Capitol Police Department issued a statement refuting the media’s declaration that Sicknick was dead. However, at 9:30 that night, the department finally reported that Sicknick has passed.

•  The Capitol Police reported that Sicknick died from injuries sustained in the riot attack the previous day. The source of their information was, not the hospital or doctor, but the New York Times!

•  The events from the time that Sicknick was in his office on Wednesday night leading up to his death by stroke are unknown.

•  A month after Sicknick’s death, zero information has been disclosed by the DOJ, the FBI, the US Capitol Police, the DC medical examiner, the hospital that cared for him, or the treating physicians.

•  No autopsy has been released. There is no death certificate. No announcements have been made by authorities about the investigation.

•  Sicknick’s body has been cremated. That means no further forensic analysis can be done to establish the cause or time of Sicknick’s death!

•  As it became clear that the MAGA mob did not kill Sicknick, the narrative moved to conflate the issue by saying he died after injuries incurred while physically engaging with protesters.

•  The New York Times retracted its claim that Sicknick died from being beaten by a Trump supporter with a fire hydrant on February 14, following the expose by Revolver

Read full article by Revolver:   https://www.revolver.news/2021/02/maga-blood-libel-why-are-they-hiding-the-medical-report/