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Disgraced Lincoln Project members reemerge as liberal media forgets group's scandals
Fox News ^ | 5/11/2021 | David Rutz

Posted on 05/13/2021 3:37:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Less than three months after the liberal Lincoln Project publicly imploded over multiple scandals, the disgraced group is getting mainstream media love again.

Co-founder Rick Wilson appeared on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" for a friendly interview on Friday, and senior adviser Tara Setmayer scored appearances Sunday on CNN and Monday on MSNBC, with liberal anchors Jim Acosta and Ari Melber, respectively.

Ex-adviser Kurt Bardella, who confessed to tweeting out hacked messages between co-founder Jennifer Horn and a reporter, continues to be a frequent MSNBC guest.

Their appearances mainly featured blistering criticism of the Republican Party and its continued association with former President Donald Trump, who has continued to stoke false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Last week, Bardella suggested that the GOP has become so "radicalized" that it has become a threat to the nation equivalent to "Al Qaeda, Usama bin Laden," and "the Taliban" as House lawmakers prepare to remove Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from leadership.

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Steve Schmidt, who resigned from the board in February partly over his own stated concern that too many "White men" were involved in Lincoln Project leadership, has also re-emerged, speaking at a widely mocked "town hall fundraiser" for the group last week alongside Wilson, Stuart Stevens, and Reed Gallen. They are all White men.

The group's scandals were not brought up in any of the various media appearances.

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Schmidt and other co-founders reportedly knew about allegations of Weaver's misconduct months before they let on. Weaver left the organization in January, and Wilson, Schmidt and others bitterly denounced him as a liar and a predator.

Stories then followed about shady finances and...

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lincolnproject; rickwilson

1 posted on 05/13/2021 3:37:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Rick Wilson is the most vile of the Bush League Republicans.


2 posted on 05/13/2021 3:38:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Email and call in mass. They think this is their own personal show... They need to be reminded that you do not approve and they represent YOU!


3 posted on 05/13/2021 3:44:46 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Republican Wildcat

The election WAS STOLEN. Everyone involved who perpetuates the lie should hang along with every single person that took part, down to the truck drivers and dock workers.


4 posted on 05/13/2021 3:45:05 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

They were merely on a time out. Child porn/solicitation? Meh! 👹


5 posted on 05/13/2021 3:49:45 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Republican Wildcat

It’s amazing that they can find time with how busy they are schtupping everything that walks upright.


6 posted on 05/13/2021 3:51:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Republican Wildcat

They need to find a new gravy-train scam/grift.


7 posted on 05/13/2021 3:59:36 PM PDT by Paladin2 (.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Twenty-one young men accuse Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver of sending them inappropriate messages offering political career advice in exchange for sex - including one who was just 14

This must become a criminal invest against Weaver and the Lincoln Project immediately, the trigger that the Xiden Admin will use against the Lincoln Project, Rick Wilson's FEC & IRS fraud, and as the Xiden test case to overturn CitizensUnited:


8 posted on 05/13/2021 4:03:24 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Republican Wildcat

An excerpt from Ha’aretz follows. From July 12 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin

“Republican Voters Against Trump is the creation of William Kristol”. end excerpt.

Start my comment: William Kristol is a “never Trumper” a “never ending war neocon” and a closet “Bolshevik”.

“Bill” Kristol can KMA.


9 posted on 05/13/2021 4:40:50 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: Republican Wildcat

Forget = Ignore


10 posted on 05/13/2021 4:45:56 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Worse than Steve Schmidt?


11 posted on 05/13/2021 5:12:19 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: sauropod

By a hair.


12 posted on 05/13/2021 5:18:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I’d hate to be an elected, mainstream, Republican with this bunch running around. They think they’re only hurting Trump (as if Trump is running for office), but it spills over, everywhere.


13 posted on 05/13/2021 6:14:15 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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