Lincoln Project's political future in peril after controversies wound group

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Couldn't happen to a group of nicer grifters.  The hypocrisy was always there, but a lot of folks fell for their message.  I really like the fact that they had all their employees sign NDAs, didn't they preach against that when it came to Trump?

 

Lincoln Project's political future in peril after controversies wound group

 

The Lincoln Project has raised roughly $90 million since its launch, but has spent only a third of that money on TV and digital ads. The remaining money was spent on related expenditures, such as production and overhead costs , as well as fees paid to consulting firms controlled by members of the Lincoln Project. And that’s raised questions about the group’s finances.

 

Many Republicans aren’t shedding tears over the Lincoln Project's current troubles.

 

"There are a lot of Republicans who are enjoying watching the Lincoln Project’s implosion not because of their views toward Trump, but the sanctimony, smugness and self-righteousness with which they have conducted themselves," a veteran GOP strategist told Fox News.

 

The strategist, who also asked for anonymity, argued that "raising millions of dollars, most of which went into their own pockets for consulting fees, using NDA’s (non-disclosure agreements) to silence former employees, attacking anyone in the media who raises questions – the Lincoln Project may claim to despise Trump, but they borrow a lot of tactics straight out of his playbook. My sense is this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the chickens are coming home to roost. They are about to get torched by Republicans and Democrats alike."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lincoln-project-political-future-wounded-controversies

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They're reaping what they've sown.

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Glenn Greenwald as usual is spot on.

 

The Lincoln Project, Facing Multiple Scandals, is Accused by its Own Co-Founder of Likely Criminality

 

From the start, it was obvious that this disgraceful collapse was the inevitable end for this group. The very idea that this freakish hodgepodge of life-long D.C. Republican consultants were men of profound conscience defending the Republic was a complete and total joke. They are life-long grifters, responsible for some of the most grotesque and amoral attack ads in the modern era, with a very long and recent history of advocating the exact opposite values of what they claimed to represent once they opportunistically identified the optimal Trump-era profit model: namely, relentlessly fleece scared and gullible #Resistance liberals of their cash by posturing as brave and principled warriors against Trumpism.

But their lucrative scheme could never have succeeded without the knowingly fraudulent cooperation of liberal networks such as MSNBC and CNN. Over and over, those Democratic Party spokespeople masquerading as TV journalists — knowing exactly who these bottom-feeding GOP operatives have always been — encouraged their misguided and trusting viewers to regard the Lincoln Project as a selfless and noble bulwark against Trumpism rather than the scamming, grifting, lowlife con it so obviously was from the start.

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.
 

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