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What To Do When Your Idiots Are No Longer Useful
When former heroes of the cause decided to throw in with Progressives in their quest to oust Donald Trump from the White House there were plenty of folks that told them whatever support they were getting was ephemeral. It would be a mere wisp of smoke rings that would dissipate into the ether as certain as a bad Saturday night of partying leads to a Sunday morning hangover. But they didn’t listen. No, you couldn’t tell the people at The Lincoln Project (or their devotees) anything.
Maybe they couldn’t listen. It was reported that more than a few of them were in financial trouble. John Weaver had a $313,655 federal tax lien against his home in Texas. Likewise with Rick “Stars ‘n’ Bars” Wilson and his Florida abode – to the tune of $389,420. This was an opportunity that presents itself once in a lifetime.
But now that the election is over and Orange Man Bad has been sent packing to Mar-A-Lago, the knives are out. Not just the long ones, either. The short ones, the rusty ones, the butter knives, and any handy object that can be turned into a prison shiv. They’re all out and looking for blood.
As far back as 2004, Karl Rove was trying to tell reporters that John Weaver was a sexual predator. They laughed it off. Weaver, they knew, had tried to weasel his way into the GW Bush re-election campaign and Rove wanted no part of him. Reporters liked Weaver. An acolyte of John McCain’s he would happily squeal and dish against his fellow Republicans. Why mess with that? In the end, he telegraphed future moves by consulting with the campaign of Bush’s opponent, Senator John Kerry.
This past summer it started to catch up with him. He was sending lewd texts full of homosexual imagery to LP interns. Some were targeted to boys as young as 14. When The New York Times reported on it in January, the rest of the LP honchos expressed their shock and dismay. But this week the Associated Press reported “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.” It was, like Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Jeffrey Epstein, and Charlie Rose before him, just one of those open secrets nobody really talked about. He was useful. Until he wasn’t.
Then there’s Jennifer Horn. A co-founder of the group, she recently tried to negotiate a new contract. According to the Huffington Post, Horn demanded the group “properly address the Weaver issue publicly and issue a call to action to take on sexual harassment and power imbalance/exploitation issues.” When they would not agree to that she walked, prompting the LP to put out a statement aimed at her destruction. Again, the HuffPost:
The Lincoln Project said last week that Horn had requested “an immediate ‘signing bonus’ payment of $250,000 and a $40,000 per month consulting contract.” She earlier demanded “a board seat on the Lincoln Project, a television show, a podcast hosting assignment, and a staff to manage these endeavors [to] establish immediate and long-term financial security,” the group added.
As if that wasn’t enough, they got wind of another unflattering piece that was to be penned by reporter Amanda Becker. Rick Wilson then tweeted out a screenshot that came from Becker’s direct messages from her Twitter account with the ominous-sounding phrase: “Abe hears things.” This was not the content from Horn’s company phone, it was from Becker’s account. In their haste to intimidate a member of the press, Wilson accidentally revealed that someone had been illegally hacking into Twitter.
That was too much even for George Conway, who seems to have hated Donald Trump more than he ever loved his own wife.
Wilson may not only be guilty of hacking but there are rumblings that he could be in trouble for wire fraud. He started a GoFundMe page with author Ben Howe promising that they would be producing a “major motion picture documentary” titled “Everything Trump Touches Dies.” Trump must of touched that, too, because it died like a 106-year-old man in an Andrew Cuomo nursing home. As late as February of last year, Wilson promised that the film was still happening and almost done. No one has even seen a rough cut. They also haven’t seen anything of the $65,000 he took for it.
What we do know is that some people have been looking at LP’s financials and that they stink like yesterday’s nappy bag. There are huge consulting fees paid to the companies run by the Lincoln people. Ron Steslow, who hosts the LP podcast and Steve Schmidt raked in at least $45M. Reed Galen, son of long-time GOP strategist Rich Galen, also reportedly raked in millions.
I hope they saved and invested wisely. Because now they are toxic. Donors are fleeing and the FBI is knocking. If they thought their new political friends would save them, they have another thing coming.
But we told you so, didn’t we?
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As an extra bonus: What did she know and when did she know it?
She is an insider, they know.
What you wrote in your post and the bonus comment has struck me for a long time as exactly the kind of information in the possession of what may be called the “deep state bureaucrats” which would include non-elected political appointees. Those in the intelligence agencies and law enforcement would become very powerful. The abuses of the security classification process and the measures taken to prevent declassification point to the possible use of these mechanisms to avoid disclosures to protect reputations rather than national security. Who knows who is held hostage by this process.
But they are all, all honourable men. Just ask . . . oh wait, if I mention this member’s name it would be construed as a violation of the CoC. But his name is another open secret.
Today The Citizens Free Press published a list of donations given to the Lincoln Project. 90 million was given. [redacted]
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Exactly.
“I hope they saved and invested wisely. Because now they are toxic. Donors are fleeing and the FBI is knocking. If they thought their new political friends would save them, they have another think coming.“
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks. Why do I feel like there are more where they came from.
Axios is now reporting Steve Schmidt has resigned. And what’s today? February the 12th? Oh, Abe… happy birthday!
People …
It’s Trumps moral failings – Trump’s moral failings – that are at question here. Pay no mind to the fact that the Lincoln Project is shadier than the Black Forest. What’s a little sexual and financial chicanery when the feelings of our moral betters have been trammeled?
Priorities, people.
Oh is that the guy with 400 donations to Democrats and 34 for Republicans?
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I think Rick Wilson and Reed Galen are the only two rats left on that sinking ship.
The mass abandonment tells me something big is about to break.
Funny how our political class keeps proving that the Q people might be right about all the pedophiles operating in Washington.
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Now that the Lincoln Project is toast, Nemesis needs to set her sights on The Bulwark and The Dispatch.
😂😂😂
EJ,
Those are some quality similes there:
“died like a 106-year-old man in an Andrew Cuomo nursing home” and
“stink like yesterday’s nappy bag”.
I’m impressed. You should be proud.
Tim
I’m trying to imagine something bigger that doesn’t involve finding a dead body.
Fang Fang wasn’t a Lincoln Project intern, was she?
My god I hope not.
I hear this stuff about pedophiles everywhere and I shake my head – this can’t be true.
But then I must admit I lead a sheltered life – I’m an ordinary American.
Pedophilia is so other-worldly abominable to me – I can’t get my head around it. Is it possible that it is more widespread than I can believe? If so, why would it be particularly a Washington DC and Hollywood . . . thing?
Kinsey hypothesized that the people with the lowest sexual mores were the very poor and the very rich. The poor can’t afford middle class amusements and the rich are bored by them very quickly. For the powerful sex isn’t usually hard to get. It can be purchased either through money or favors. Any fetish can be easily indulged – except one. And that gives them a thrill. They aren’t bothered in the least that while they’re having a thrill they’re destroying a young life.
Isn’t a great deal of the risk you are pointing to an end process of approval of The Patriot Act? Where we were made to give up access to information that is deemed valuable in the name of stopping terrorism.
Now it is an every day matter that people who support Trump are “domestic terrorists.” There was a time not too long ago that simple requests using the Freedom of Information Act would allow an individual to ascertain what was going on behind closed doors.
Well, that’s just it. We’re ordinary Americans. We have difficultly believing such things happen.
And then we get the news that it’s happening, and we’re just shocked. How is it possible that these people who move in elite circles have such perversions? How did they get away with it for so long?
Powerful people can buy silence with money or fear.
What’s the line about being caught with a dead girl or a live boy? Achievement: unlocked!
Isn’t it possible that these people had skeletons in closets, in addition to unpaid tax bills?
That powers in the background essentially took advantage of grifting, greed, need, secrets and hate, and TDS, and got these fools to work for them?
Of course, they are now expendable, and getting their just reward.
Do not underestimate the depth, width, and pervasiveness of depravity. It exists. It must be stopped, in it’s beginning stages. We must be vigilant. We must pray for discernment.
Reminds me of Bill Clinton and his widely known and frequent trips on Epstein’s Lolita Express private jet. Every time I happen to catch Watter’s World it seems he’s breaking new information on the Epstein scandal. On various episodes he’s had interviews with private detectives and pilots, who through examination of flight logs state that Clinton was on the plane with Epstein at least 27 times, some trips with his secret service detail and other times not, and many of those flights had underage women onboard dressed as candy stripers. Wider media reaction? Crickets.
The picture that you put on your post alone, was worth a Like !