The Lincoln Project fundraising scam is attacking Governor Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida because they have refused to impose China-Virus mask mandates.
The governors are a threat to children, avers the latest misleading ad from the group. That’s not true, of course, but the project itself is a proven threat to kids.
Project leaders protected a homosexual pervert who co-founded the group and was caught soliciting and grooming a minor and stalking young men. And while the homosexual-stalker went after a kid, the group’s principals went after the millions it raised to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020.
“Something Mentally Wrong”
The misleading ad features a little girl at a school desk with a mask, then another child in a hospital bed on a ventilator.
“If you prevent this, wouldn’t you?” the ad says. “Wouldn’t anyone?” Then comes grainy footage of Abbott and DeSantis. “First they asked you to sacrifice your grandparents for the economy, now it’s your children,” the tweet over the ad says.
The suggestion that the China Virus will kill children who don’t wear masks is false. It rarely harms children unless, like older adults, they suffer serious comorbidities.
Aside from that sly misrepresentation for the benefit of the group’s gullible contributors, another problem with the ad is that project leaders didn’t care enough about kids to stop a homosexual predator from stalking them.
That predator was John Weaver. Power players in GOP circles knew Weaver was a boy chaser for at least 20 years. As well, LP founders were well aware of Weaver’s activities. He used his post at the project as cover. A tweet about Weaver accused him of rape.
Project founder George Conway said the group’s leaders lied when they claimed they knew nothing of Weaver’s outrageous solicitation of young men.
But now, critics observe, the project positions itself as a defender of kids.
“[Y]ou guys probably shouldn’t be making videos with kids in them,” a tweet about the ad says.
“How were they able to film in a school?” another replied. “I thought they had to be at least 500’ away.”
Seth Mandel, executive editor of the Washington Examiner called the ad deranged:
That Lincoln Project ad is psychotic even for the Lincoln Project. Also they should probably shy away from accusing others of not protecting children.
“In fairness, the Lincoln Project has far more expertise in endangering children than in successful electoral politics,” commentator Drew Holden tweeted.
Tweeted commentator David Harsanyi, “There is something mentally wrong with this group.”
Liberal media critic Glenn Greenwald zeroed in on the project’s naive donors who have poured millions into the pockets of the group’s founders:
You have to give credit where it’s due: they understand how the minds of the weakest and most pathetic liberals function, which is how they’ve been able to fleece so much money from them in exchange for nothing of value, and continue the scam even after all they got caught doing.
But “after their various scandals,” he continued, “the Lincoln Project should probably avoid telling people how to keep kids safe.”
Frighteningly, the group has created a subsidiary scam, the Franklin Project, to push a school “curriculum” that focuses on “civility” and “democracy.”
The project’s commitment to “civility” is manifest. Its leaders have called Trump supporters rubes and hillbillies. And, of course, “DeSantis is a public health threat.”
Millions Collected
But the Weaver cover-up isn’t the group’s only scandal. News reports about the project’s finances suggest that it’s been a money-making scam from the start, when it announced that it was compiling a blacklist to financially and professionally ruin former Trump administration staffers.
Early this year, the Associated Press reported that the group’s founders pocketed tens of millions of dollars.
“Of the $90 million Lincoln Project has raised, more than $50 million has gone to firms controlled by the group’s leaders,” the AP disclosed.
Of a sudden, founder John Weaver paid a $313,000 tax bill, while founder Steve Schmidt purchased a $1.4 million mountain hideaway in Utah. Schmidt joked that he was creating “generational wealth.”
Founder Rick Wilson paid off a $200,000 mortgage right after the New York Times revealed that Weaver had stalked 21 men.
H/T: Fox News, Ace of Spades
