Lincoln Project Ex-Employees Want Out From Non-Disclosure Agreements [Update: Schmidt Resigns]
Also: “The Lincoln Project is facing intense backlash and potentially major legal trouble after it was accused of publishing screenshots of private Twitter direct messages belonging to one of its co-founders, Jennifer Horn.”
Hailed as heroes who were taking a principled Never Trump stand by the Democratic Party’s unofficial media activist arm, the Lincoln Project is quickly going the way of Michael Avenatti; having served their anti-Trump purpose, the media that built them up is busily tearing them down.
And as with Avenatti, the damage to the Lincoln Project is self-inflicted; now that the election is over, the second sham impeachment circus wrapping up, their vileness is no longer being ignored, buried, and/or spun by a TDS-afflicted media willing to embrace any scourge to score points against President Trump.
The New York Times, who recently reported on the alleged sexual predation of Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver—a story first reported by Ryan Girdusky, reported Thursday that six former Lincoln Project employees want to be released from their non-disclosure agreements in order to publicly discuss Weaver and the allegations against him.
Leaders of the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump media venture, came under fire on Thursday night from six former workers demanding to be released from nondisclosure agreements in order to talk about John Weaver, a co-founder who harassed young men online.
. . . .The six former employees and associates called on the Lincoln Project to waive nondisclosure agreements, writing in an open letter — which was provided to The New York Times — that they wanted to be allowed to disclose information “that would aid the press, public and our donors in answering questions relevant to the public interest.”
While the Lincoln Project leaders said Thursday night that current and former employees should contact them directly for a release from nondisclosure agreements, the six signatories to the letter said they were not comfortable doing so. They cited comments that Steve Schmidt, another co-founder, had made about Jennifer Horn, a former partner and co-founder, and Mr. Schmidt’s repeated denials that he had any knowledge of Mr. Weaver’s actions before last month.
“Expecting victims and those close to victims to contact and engage the people and organization accused of protecting the very predator at issue is absurd, unreasonable and insensitive,” the former employees wrote in the letter. While they did not sign their names to the letter, their identities are known to The Times.
They have a point. Not only did the Lincoln Project respond to co-founder Jennifer Horn’s decision to leave the organization by pettily disclosing on Twitter internal discussions related to compensation, but they also tweeted—and then deleted—her private direct messages with a reporter.
The Lincoln Project is facing intense backlash and potentially major legal trouble after it was accused of publishing screenshots of private Twitter direct messages belonging to one of its co-founders, Jennifer Horn.
Horn, who left the Lincoln Project last week amid the John Weaver scandal, has had a public spat with the anti-Trump group ever since her departure. But the Lincoln Project escalated tensions on Thursday night with tweets that appeared to be an exchange she had with 19th News correspondent Amanda Becker.
1. Lincoln Project tweeted out a thread that appeared to contain screenshots from their former partner @NHJennifer's account
Unclear how they got access to them
These exchanges were with journalist @AmandaBecker
They have deleted the thread but here are screenshots
(Cont) pic.twitter.com/ddkbtFNlVg
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) February 12, 2021
3. One more screenshot of the deleted Lincoln Project thread. pic.twitter.com/dsMWmS8JNt
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) February 12, 2021
Rick Wilson couldn’t resist crowing about the tweeting of Horn and the reporter’s private messages, and his tweet highlights questions about how they were obtained.
Well there goes your "We were hacked" excuse pic.twitter.com/OmhiAuixKc
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 12, 2021
Given the unscrupulous, unethical nastiness of these people, it’s small wonder the former employees prefer not to deal directly with anyone associated with the Lincoln Project.
Everything scummy, dirty, unethical, dishonest and scamming about @ProjectLincoln was completely known and obvious over the last 18 months.
Journalists and others in liberal politics are willing to admit it now only because, with Trump vanquished, there is no more use for them.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 12, 2021
The tweets disclosing the private messages between Horn and the reporter were so problematic that Kellyanne Conway’s Never Trump husband warned they could be a violation of federal law.
They deleted this right after George Conway tweeted this.
The Lincoln Project is on a full meltdown pic.twitter.com/EvUrADeBAb
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 12, 2021
Needless to say, Horn pointed out that the messages were made public and tweeted without her consent.
Hey @Twitter @jack @TwitterSupport I did not give consent. https://t.co/eyXw9CMMtw
— Jennifer Horn (@NHJennifer) February 12, 2021
But Twitter apparently hasn’t got the memo that the left has decided it’s time to cut the Lincoln Project loose.
NEWS
Twitter spox tells me that the Lincoln Project tweet thread containing DM's from @NHJennifer's account (which she says were obtained without consent) do NOT violate Twitter rules
I'm also told by Twitter that the tweets are NOT a violation of their hacked materials policy https://t.co/667wnn4TaM
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) February 12, 2021
This is absurd on its face. Twitter’s insane rationale for locking the New York Post’s account after its bombshell report on Biden family influence peddling was that it violated their hacked materials policy. Further, Twitter locked my account claiming that my tweet sharing a link to an article about election fraud was that I had ““privately produced/distributed intimate media of someone without their express consent” (and of course that was ridiculous).
It’s not clear if the Lincoln Project deleted the tweets because of Conway’s warning, because they were concerned about Horn’s assertion that she did not consent to her private messages being made public on Twitter, or because they were cowed by the massive backlash from both the left and the right.
Whatever the reason, this mean-spirited unethical stunt provides yet another glimpse of the depraved nature of those at the Lincoln Project who sold themselves to a gullible, grasping left as the principled, ethical antidote to Orange Man Bad’s mean tweets.
So often, the people and methods used to oppose Trump were at least as deceitful, unethical and destructive as he was claimed to be. @ProjectLincoln is just one illustrative example. Look how many charlatans were promoted, immoral factions venerated. lies told for this Cause.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 12, 2021
Having reportedly been told in June of last year of Weaver’s alleged predatory behavior towards young men and boys, the Lincoln Project waited until February 2021—after the proverbial excrement hit all the fans—to announce that it has hired an outside group to investigate Weaver’s behavior.
NEW: The Lincoln Project is hiring an outside group to investigate John Weaver's tenure there, and six former employees and associates are calling on LP to release them from their nondisclosure agreements. Their letter is in the next tweet. w/ @dannyhakim https://t.co/IgPpDDP4Go
— Maggie Astor (@MaggieAstor) February 12, 2021
The FBI is also reportedly investigating the allegations against Weaver.
The Lincoln Project is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.
It’s so bad that even die-hard Never Trumper Tom Nichols has decided to jump ship.
I'm glad @ProjectLincoln is hiring outside counsel for this. I've always been transparent about all my affiliations, as I am now: I told TLP leadership yesterday that I'm stepping down as an unpaid adviser as they sort this out and decide their future direction and organization. https://t.co/xi5Nw348JN
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 12, 2021
He won’t be the last.
UPDATE 7:25 p.m. by WAJ
Fuzzy predicted it, more rats are fleeing the sinking ship. And this was one of the biggest, meanest rats of all: Steve Schmidt has resigned, joining spokesman Kurt Bardella who also resigned today.
The Lincoln Project is over….
Steve Schmidt. who I’m told has maintained control of the group in the last couple months, has resigned. @lachlan scoops https://t.co/hn7edS5P6x
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) February 12, 2021
The Lincoln Project may have imploded, but it achieved its top goal: Steve Schmidt got his Park City mansion, Sub-Zero appliances, and a sweet new boat.
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) February 12, 2021
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George Conway, supporter of perverts. Apparently, his associates buggering of little boys wasn’t a concern at all.
Think of this guy’s poor daughter, and what she must have endured with this freak Conway as a father.
Kellyanne: get the hell out of that marriage. A world of wonderful awaits you after you do.
What about the children who were raped because if Conway facilitated in covering up the crimes of the child molester that headed the Lincoln Project? Because of any Hollywood idiots’ contributions knowing a child molester that headed the Lincoln Project? (Jennifer Aniston gave generously.) Because of the contributions of rino sh-t to the Lincoln Project knowing a child molester used it to conspire to rape children?
You poor kids: hire Lin Wood. You’ll soon be rich kids.
Here’s a list of the hollywood idiots contributing:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-02-09-list-celebrities-support-pedophile-ridden-lincoln-project.html
We need to find a right-wing Banksy to install a giant bucket of popcorn on Abe’s lap at the Lincoln Memorial.
Trumpenfreude.
So the Sinkin’ Project is… sinkin’.
The leftwing fascist ruling class is purging allies of convenience it no longer needs or wants. People and organizations it now considers liabilities. Or potential political embarrassments and/or liabilities with no further redeeming value.
Andrew Cuomo has recently discovered he falls into this category.
Look for more ‘new revelations’, that have been known for awhile by insiders, about people and organizations the leftwing fascist ruling class no longer finds useful and wants to distance itself from or get rid of.
China Joe will eventually be targeted. At which point the lefties will suddenly find Hunter’s foreign financial shenanigans and Slow Joe’s involvement, along with his mental decline, ‘concerning’ and ‘troubling’.
Then the First Slut will take office. All hell will break loose.
But, no talk of secession: we wouldn’t want to deprive our new Maoist overlords of their good time picking us off, one by one, then hundreds by hundreds, then thousands by thousands, then millions by millions.
Let’s stay in the new Junta-ruled America. Let’s rejoice in living under the thumb of Communist Chinese racists, who hate everyone except the Chinese.
Rejoice everyone. The sane among us will continue to explore getting the hell out – and taking what’s ours with us.
“China Joe will eventually be targeted. At which point the lefties will suddenly find Hunter’s foreign financial shenanigans and Slow Joe’s involvement, along with his mental decline, ‘concerning’ and ‘troubling’.”
I believe the word that would be used by the REAL POTUS candidate who couldn’t get more than a few percent is “Problematic.”
Slow Joe is the inert ingredient in the mix……..
Newsom recall petition now has 1,500,000 signatures. Even Democrats are calling for Cuomo’s head for how he handled the Wuhan virus and nursing home patients. The Lincoln Project has imploded is reportedly being investigated by the FBI. Reports are the New York Times is in turmoil.
Champagne anyone?
You don’t get it. JHogan does, but you don’t.
What’s going on is not to be celebrated. It’s more like The Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler consolidated his power.
The Radical Leftists are moving faster than I expected. I would have thought that after so brazenly stealing the election, they would have laid low for a while and let Americans’ short memories go to work.
It’s almost as if they WANT another Civil War.
schmidt probably transferred all the money to his personal account before he quit
Exactly as predicted.
You were always just Useful Idiots to the liberals.
Now the Useful part is gone.
Gifters and crooks.
Notice that the entrenched left wingers in the DOJ went after the crippled veteran and Bannon over the fund to build the wall on the border. They were nominally allies of Trump or at least aligned in ideology.
These anti-Trump clowns are allowed to misuse funds with impunity. Once again, those opposed to Trump or conservative ideals and actions are immune from prosecution.
A two tiered legal system is not a justice system.