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Wow! GOP 'Never Trumpers' Are Paid by a 'Radical' Leftist Billionaire
PJ Media ^ | 07/15/2020 | Victoria Taft

Posted on 07/15/2020 8:37:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

They sound like Leftists. They act like Leftists. And now we learn that the Never-Trumper group called “The Lincoln Project” is funded by a Leftist billionaire, according to a new book on the subject.

And a collective “Oh, it all makes sense to me now!” just spread over the land.

The project features, among others, GOP political strategists Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, the Washington Post’s “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin, former “Weekly Standard” editor Bill Kristol, and disgruntled attorney, George “Mr. Kellyanne” Conway, who spends nearly all of his time trying to ruin his wife’s White House career.

Judging by their antics, the anti-Trump collective is like a latter-day mix of political saboteur Donald Segretti, lawless Yippie Abbie Hoffman, yellow gossip columnist Walter Winchell and political monkey-wrencher Saul Alinsky. Their goal is to do everything they can to cost Donald Trump the White House in 2020 in order to burn the GOP brand. So that’s why they’re supporting Joe Biden.

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In her new book, Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried―And Failed―To Take Down the President, reporter Julie Kelly looks into this group of out of work and out of favor politicos – left on the sidelines after a Trump 2016 victory. She wonders how they got the money to begin their political monkeywrenching operation against Trump after the Weekly Standard, a reliable home for the “Resistance,” went bust.

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Kelly assembled the pieces of the Kristol and company money machine puzzle and winds up with a picture of a Silicon Valley billionaire. She depicts the relationship as one of basically paymaster and servant.

Kristol and most of his NeverTrump cohorts are on the dole of a left-wing philanthropist generously underwriting any cause or influencer committed to ending the Trump presidency.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


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Pierre Omidyar is a very rich man.



Pierre Morad Omidyar (born June 21, 1967) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, software engineer and philanthropist. He is the founder of eBay where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy.
1 posted on 07/15/2020 8:37:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left advances 30 pieces of silver at a time.


2 posted on 07/15/2020 8:41:05 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: SeekAndFind

They just don’t get it! No matter how much they spend attacking Trump, we will vote for him. Maybe not because we like his communications style, but because of his conservative results. He is the only president in my lifetime to actively try to keep his campaign promises, and where he does not receive interference from congress or the courts he has succeeded in keeping them.


3 posted on 07/15/2020 8:46:07 AM PDT by EdgeOfDarkness
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To: SeekAndFind

Wonder if a lawyer could sue for all the damages his payments to the “protestors” caused.......... just asking for a friend.


4 posted on 07/15/2020 8:47:58 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: SeekAndFind

Well they gotta make money somehow.
Read this from MRC:

“Wilson actually flinched when, after the fact that the Lincoln Project spent over 89% of its money on overhead (including salaries) was brought up, one of the cartoon characters noted that “89.3% on overhead sounds like a lot but I can’t get into the right head space to make a ten second ad without wolfing down endangered mollusks in a titanium catamaran with my Bush administration buddies.”

Free money baby.


5 posted on 07/15/2020 8:50:28 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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“Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, the Washington Post’s “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin, former “Weekly Standard” editor Bill Kristol, and disgruntled attorney, George “Mr. Kellyanne” Conway”

What a bunch of losers!


6 posted on 07/15/2020 8:51:34 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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They have to be funded.


7 posted on 07/15/2020 8:53:59 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: SeekAndFind
These dopes were never anything more than just paid propagandists who whore themselves out to donors who think they actually have any principles.

Some of knew better ... YEARS ago.

8 posted on 07/15/2020 8:55:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: SeekAndFind

So glad I seldom use ebay - from here on out, it will be never. And as others have posted, these folks are just pi$$ing into the wind.


9 posted on 07/15/2020 8:56:40 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Presstitutes.


10 posted on 07/15/2020 9:06:31 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: EdgeOfDarkness; Liz; LS; SunkenCiv; a little elbow grease; sickoflibs; bray; britt
They sound like Leftists. They act like Leftists. And now we learn that the Never-Trumper group called “The Lincoln Project” is funded by a Leftist billionaire, according to a new book on the subject. And a collective “Oh, it all makes sense to me now!” just spread over the land.

Not only that, but 89% of the money collected the 'the Lincoln Project' goes to salaries and 'perks' for the deadbeats running the place.

11 posted on 07/15/2020 9:08:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Leo Terrell - Michael Shellenberger - Stephen Hsu - Bari Weiss - "TRUTH" the new HATE SPEECH)
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Yeah, these people are disgusting.

The thing to remember is they have NEVER been “conservatives.”

They adopted front-positions of conservatives as long as they knew they would never have to defend actual legislation or executive orders. As long as their “conservative” positions had no chance of being enacted, they could “espouse” them in their media appearances and cocktail parties, but at the end of the night they could slap shoulders, wink and nod, and KNOW it was all just an intellectual exercise.

Once Trump came in and actual DID something, they had to reveal themselves. Evil spoogemonkey spermsnutcher, bilgepucker, douchesloggers.


12 posted on 07/15/2020 9:14:14 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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Wonder if this includes Romney as well.


13 posted on 07/15/2020 9:27:04 AM PDT by Elkiejg (Democrats/Liberals/progressives are EVIL!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t think “The Lincoln Project” is accurate. I think it is more a homage to the “Lincoln Battalion”. That was the American international communists in the Spanish Civil War.

Just like Antifa is the homage to the radical German Communists who fought the NAZI’s in the 1930’s.

Now it is just the communists vs. America.

(A prefab lie is that it is either one or the other now: Antifa or American NAZI’s

This is what is pushed by the media endlessly. Instead it was 2 very bad actors in WW2-Communists vs. Fascist Socialsts.

America was and is the third option: Freedom of the individual and government subordinate to the citizens.) God Bless America


14 posted on 07/15/2020 9:31:56 AM PDT by Eastern Shore Virginian (I am 100% certain.........but I may be wrong.)
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To: GOPJ; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Pierre Omidyar is a very rich man. Pierre Morad Omidyar (born June 21, 1967) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, software engineer and philanthropist. He is the founder of eBay where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy.
Thanks GOPJ.

15 posted on 07/15/2020 9:56:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: LS
Evil spoogemonkey spermsnutcher, bilgepucker, douchesloggers.

And those are their good qualities.

16 posted on 07/15/2020 10:34:44 AM PDT by JPG (MAGA 2020!)
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Useful article, but poorly written: 6-7 short little one-sentence paragraphs and still no name of the “billionaire”!

eBay, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook .... Do you see any pattern here?


17 posted on 07/15/2020 10:59:54 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: SeekAndFind

Iranian heritage born in Paris. Real name is not Pierre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar


18 posted on 07/15/2020 11:38:57 AM PDT by tinamina
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To: SeekAndFind

Allahu akbar?


19 posted on 07/15/2020 11:42:32 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump


20 posted on 07/15/2020 11:44:25 AM PDT by lowbridge
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