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Toxicity is how one would describe the Lincoln Project. It seems that not only are all the founders toxic, the work environment was toxic.
It wasn’t just the ads that many felt were sexist, it was the language regarding gender and sexuality, plus the derogatory terms used in the workplace as well.
The founders spent a lot of time raking in the dough and then squabbling over who got what piece of the pie. When Mike Madrid left last month, he was given a handout of $1.4 million. Ron Steslow walked away with $900 K. Reed Galen and his firm have gotten over $27 million since The Lincoln Project’s inception. Steve Schmidt has gotten over $1.5 million and is now working to offload his $2.9 million home in Utah that he bought at some point after The Lincoln Project got underway.
WHOA! Reed Galen is an owner of “Summit Strategic Communications” and the Treasurer of @ProjectLincoln.
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) February 12, 2021
Before 2020, his company was paid only $12K in Federal-level campaigns.
Last cycle it was paid $24,818,273 and all of it from TLP.
Again: $24 mill from TLP; $0 elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/Z3WbJnvhpg
The toxicity of their workplace played out big time in the last couple of days and weeks with the news of Jennifer Horn’s leaving. First, they did their best via responses to media inquiries to paint her as the grifter. Secondly, they published multiple tweets from Jen’s private Twitter that contained info between her and Amanda Becker who was in the process of crafting the 19th article detailing The Lincoln Project’s toxic work environment.
Interestingly, the publishing of those tweets isn’t against Twitter’s standards. Which is wrong because The Lincoln Project (TLP) had to have figured out how to hack both Jen and Amanda’s Twitter accounts. Why? Because Jen Horn was never issued a laptop or phone from TLP.
This whole thing came about because of John Weaver. A guy who has preyed upon multiple young men and attempted to groom many.
“But in early January, Weaver, a longtime GOP strategist who previously worked on the presidential campaigns of John McCain and John Kasich, was accused in an American Conservative piece of making unsolicited sexual advances to young men, including one as young as 14.”
Per the New York Times, the sheer numbers of those he tried to groom, twenty one or more, is sickening.
“Mr. Weaver sent overt sexual solicitations to at least 10 of the men and, in the most explicit messages, offered professional and personal assistance in exchange for sex. He told one man he would “spoil you when we see each other,” according to a message reviewed by The New York Times. “Help you other times. Give advice, counsel, help with bills. You help me … sensually.”
Weaver’s excuse is that he wasn’t “out.” Yeah. No. Meanwhile those at TLP are doing massive backflips and offering laugh worthy excuses as to how they didn’t know he was a sexual predator! Which is very interesting given that Weaver wrote an op-ed for The Atlantic along with Reed Galen and Rick Wilson last March.
Like rats deserting a sinking ship, people are leaving The Lincoln Project in droves. Especially when several KNEW that John Weaver was a predator. Last night Steve Schmidt ran away from The Lincoln Project with one of the most manipulative statements I’ve ever read.
Steve Schmidt’s full statement, given to me:
— Miranda Green (@mirandacgreen) February 12, 2021
1/3 pic.twitter.com/wWPNMIApYg
Steve Schmidt knew months ago that Weaver was a complete slime ball. The toxicity of those associated with The Lincoln Project is jaw-droopingly ugly.
Meghan McCain weighed in last night on John Weaver. Why? Because he’d worked on at least one of McCain’s campaigns.
1. I've been very hesitant to comment but since my deceased father keeps getting invoked I will say this:
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) February 13, 2021
John Weaver and Steve Schmidt were so despised by my Dad he made it a point to ban them from his funeral. Since 2008, no McCain would have spit on them if they were on fire.
Keep in mind, this is a group of people who were and are so anti-Trump that their hair was constantly on fire. This is a group of people who purported to be all about conserving conservatism. Yet their ads were atrocious, their behavior on social media was enough to make people hurl, and the toxicity of their work environment is one for the books.
Glenn Greenwald puts it succinctly.
“What this sorry episode reveals above all else is that much of American liberalism, including its all-but-official arm in corporate media, replicated, in the name of combatting Trump, every unethical tactic, every deceitful method, and every toxic assault on basic decency that they insisted Trump singularly represented. They allied with the most amoral societal actors, venerated the most corrupt factions, and vouched for the sleaziest operatives in the name of uprooting amorality, corruption and sleaze. The claimed Trump acted without limits or respect for normalcy and truth while proudly relinquishing all boundaries, principles and constraints of truth in order to fight him.
In doing so, they became everything they claimed they were fighting. And unlike Trump, who is now gone, these unholy alliances and ethic-free habits that define them will remain and fester forever. That is why when American liberals, including in the media, look in the mirror, what they see staring back is Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt and John Weaver. That is the perfect reflection of what they have become, of who they now are.”
The Lincoln Project declared that THEY were the best conservatives EVER! Better than up every conservative out there who dared vote for or work for President Donald J. Trump. They arrogantly KNEW how to right the ship. And they did so by using the heinous liberal intimidation tactics that their brand of conservatism supposedly abhors. The toxicity of The Lincoln Project was obvious from the start. The depth of it is mind-boggling.
Feature Photo Credit: poison old medicine bottle via Pixabay, cropped and modified
RCPete says: I saw a link to this thread about funding on Gab. If it’s true that Mark Elias associated with major donors, it kind of makes sense with the Lincoln Project being a Democrat front. Elias did a bunch of the lawsuits that mysteriously opened the voting floodgates for Democrats…
Gab link to twitter thread and a screenshot in case Jack takes it down:
https://gab.com/Guild/posts/105721736409706037
Quentin Q Quill says: Who would-uh thunk it? A group with Republican operative Rick Wilson as a central member had a “toxic” work environment and was likely unethical in how they used their money. This is no surprise. Rick Wilson is intelligent and witty, but he always impressed me as being a sleazy opportunist. And is anybody surprised that a Republican operative was a closet case? I’m not saying that Democratic organizations don’t also have their problems. They certainly do, but the collapse of The Lincoln Project is no surprise. They were a group comprised of a lot of political operatives, and political operative on both sides of the aisle are known for being unethical.
Some little known information about Glen Greenwald – A young man who was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives had a troubling past, including putting revenge porn on the internet when he was in middle school other allegations of demeaning women, and threatening violence against people. The young man was only 19 when elected. Greenwald defended the young man, saying that he should be given a chance because he was so young when the incidents happened. This was a well meaning response by Greenwald. Not long after Greenwald interviewed this newly elected representative, recent allegations about him came out. This young representative is a Democrat. The Kansas Democratic Party backed a write in campaign against him in the primary election which failed. They also tried to expel him from the legislature but this also failed because Republicans in the legislature didn’t go along with expelling him, if I remember correctly. After the recent allegations against this young man became public, Greenwald didn’t revisit the topic as far as I know, and instead remained silent. As people pointed out, Greenwald didn’t contact anybody in Kansas who’d had negative experiences with this newly elected representative and instead seemed impressed by the young man’s difficult life story. Greenwald was well meaning, but he failed to do any investigation, and when the facts turned against Greenwald’s position, he didn’t revisit his previous stance. Greenwald does some good work, but in this case he became what he despises – a sloppy reporter.
Quentin Q Quill says: I made a mistake, the Kansas Democratic Party backed a write in campaign against the young representative in the general election.
Taylor says: Rick Wilson is a foul mouthed sleaze bag and he’s got the intelligence of an ashtray.
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