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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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Text of a tweet from Schmidt, via Hot Air:
It might be time to iron out the justifications and alibis too.
He’s suffering, man!
With all that “other money” too. How terrible!
He’s been giving me pain since 2008.
It is 2021. Victim narrative is king.
We’ll know his story is true if he donates all of his money to a legitimate organization that prosecutes child molestation, and provides support to real victims.
That is actually no small task. Because, you see, he already used his power to cover up for evil in the past.
So who would believe him.
Not I.
Useful idiots have no value once they’ve lost their usefulness to their socialist masters.
Former members of Lincoln Project should open a pizzeria
Remember George Will? neither do I