Financial records from The Lincoln Project, the ostensibly conservative anti-Trump group touted and monetarily supported by the establishment, reveal that the group funneled over $10,000,000 to fatten the wallets of its founders through their communications and consulting firms.
Since its founding in 2019 for the purpose of “defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box,” the Lincoln Project has routinely funneled the millions it has raised to its founders and advisors.
For example, co-founder Reed Gallen’s Summit Strategic Communications LLC took in $6,160,664.99 in 2020 in what was the highest-paid entity by The Lincoln Project.
Then there’s fellow founder and advisor Ron Steslow, whose “Tusk Digital” firm received $4,014,913.24.
Another Lincoln Project Founder, Mike Madrid, took home $61,000 for his “Grassroots Lab” firm.
Communications Advisor Ryan Wiggins’s Full Contact Strategies got $41,000 from the Lincoln Project, Senior Advisor Trygve Olson’s Viking Strategies received $49,003.81, and Senior Advisor Jeff Timmer’s Two Rivers Public Affairs firm received $50,000 from two transactions.
The National Pulse reports:
Dan Barkuff, who appeared in an anti-Trump advertisement for the group, saw his “Veteran for Responsible Leadership” group earn $150,000.
And Executive Director Sarah Lenti took home a six-figure salary of $173,549.40 along with Press Secretary Nathaniel Nesbitt, who received $68,247.80.
The financial filings also reveal $16,461.71 spent on Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO) expenses, $57,897.20 on Getty Images, and $9,030.17 itemized as a “rental property” in Park City, Utah.
The news comes mere days after Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver admitted to sending sexually inappropriate messages to young men and had sex with younger men after promising them job opportunities that never materialized.
Weaver ultimately came out as “gay” and parted with the organization.
“The truth is that I’m gay. And that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place,” Weaver wrote.
“To the men I made uncomfortable through my messages that I viewed as consensual mutual conversations at the time: I am truly sorry. They were inappropriate and it was because of my failings that this discomfort was brought on you.”
Of course, Weaver didn’t leave before taking one last shot at Donald Trump.
“While I am taking full responsibility for the inappropriate messages and conversations, I want to state clearly that the other smears being leveled at me by Donald Trump’s enablers as a way to get back at the Lincoln Project for our principled stand for democracy are categorically false and outrageous,” he wrote.
The Lincoln Project spent a good chunk of its time intimidating the law firms representing the Republican case alleging voter fraud in the 2020 election by running advertising campaigns against them and pressuring the firms’ clients to drop them.
The organization even lied about the John Birch Society (JBS), the parent organization of The New American magazine, referring to it as an “extremist” group and lumping it in with “anti-semitic fascists” and the Ku Klux Klan. In reality, JBS is a constitutionalist organization open to patriotic Americans of all races and religions.
The Lincoln Project wants to turn its anti-Trump version of GOP politics into a media empire, complete with movies, books, and shows. Will they get much of an audience?
It’s no wonder the group has received praise from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) dedicated an entire op-ed to the Lincoln Project, heralding it as “a leading voice in the online political crusade against Trump” and “gaining particular attraction in the anti-Trump camp.”
“Taken together, the one-minute clips are nothing short of a psychological warfare campaign, some laced with extremely personal messages aimed at provoking Trump’s deepest insecurities,” the piece added.
Sadly, the supposed conservatives at the Lincoln Project got their wish and have now installed Democrat Joe Biden as president of the United States, leaving the American people open to a full-frontal socialist assault made possible by the simultaneous Democrat takeover of the Senate.
Biden has made clear he wants to attack Americans’ Second Amendment-guaranteed rights, increase the size and scope of government, place onerous regulations on businesses, and create programs that will necessitate major tax hikes — all of which should be anathema to conservatives.
But so long as that “rude” Donald Trump is out of office, it’s apparently all worth it for the RINOs at the Lincoln Project.
