Posted on 02/04/2021 2:42:18 PM PST by conservative98
Steve Schmidt, one of the founders of the notoriously anti-Trump Lincoln Project, is a registered member of an ultraconservative political party, voting records show — just weeks after he claimed he was becoming a Democrat.
In a post-election interview on Dec. 15, the longtime GOP strategist who former President Donald Trump once denounced as a “blathering idiot,” announced he was registering as a member of the Democratic Party after almost three decades as a Republican.
“I spent 29 years as a Republican, I’ve spent two and a half as an independent, and later this afternoon I will register as a member of the Democratic Party,” Schmidt told Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe on his podcast.
But Utah state voting records accessed by The Post show that Schmidt is an active registered member of the Independent American Party, a small far-right group which promotes conspiracy theories on its website and whose platform could not be further removed from the Democrats’ liberal bent.
The party has 50,000 members and also endorses many of Trump’s policies as “common sense.”
“Not surprisingly the accusers of Trump have also come forward, again (perhaps funded and pushed by Soros?),” former Utah gubernatorial candidate and party member Gregory Duerden opined in an article published on the group’s website.
It appears that Schmidt’s membership to the group is newfound. When The Post accessed the operative’s voting records on the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s website in July, Schmidt was listed as an inactive voter with no party affiliation — a charge he denied.
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When reached for comment on Wednesday, Schmidt said he had been a public supporter of marriage equality since 2008 and was proud to be a strategist with the ACLU fighting for marriage equality — which the IAP is opposed to. He said he had no idea why he was registered as a member of the party.
A good friend of mine was the precinct chair/election judge in Ross Perot’s precinct in Dallas. She said he always voted democrat.
Utah?
He’s getting mixed up with Pierre and Mister Eggamuffin.
They sponsor a boys sports league and Boy Scout troop, which Steve finds really great.
There is probably another Steve Schmidt.
A tiger doesn’t change his stripes.
Once a traitor, he can’t ever be trusted again.
The Lincoln Project also claimed that none of them had ever met their co-founder and recently exposed pedophile John Weaver.
Gotta love Schmidt’s defense: “I can’t be a bad guy! I support homosexuality!”
Steve Schmidt treated Sarah Palin horribly, after encouraging McCain to choose her. I still haven’t forgotten.
He is still garbage to me.
I’m a big fan of their grifting. It takes away from Democrat campaign ad and GOTV efforts.
Yeah, things like Trump was a magnificent leader, the USA was divinely inspired, we believe in the Constitution, the power of government is derived from the consent of the governed, small government, liberty and freedom. Real wack-a-doodle conspiracy theories.
Do they have lots of young males?
Infiltration, Soros style. Evil that bad shouldn’t be allowed to damage the planet as much as he has. Play nice, we’re told. Sucks.
Ever notice that there are a plethora of far right folks, but no far leftists?
Totally rhetorical question, though, because the DemocRAT party is now the very definition of “far left”.
And I am waiting for us to say, “We’re not taking it”.
And say it in a manner so as to make the January D.C. group appear to be a mere ripple in comparison.
Ebony Bowden @ebonybowden Washington correspondent @nypost . Australian New Yorker. ebowden@nypost.com Washington, DCJoined December 2009
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She's from Australia, mate. Send her an email. I emailed her one time and she didn't reply. But she must have read my message because she fixed the story immediately.
That residence looks totally gay.
He doesn’t look far right—he doesn’t look right at all. ;)
Wait...Weaver is a pedo?
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