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Lincoln Project Crumbles After Intelligencer Report on Sexual Predator

The Lincoln Project, a supergroup of “Never Trump” Republican campaign veterans, imploded Friday following Intelligencer’s report that the Lincoln Project was accused of protecting co-founder and sexual predator John Weaver.

Steve Schmidt, the most visible face of the Lincoln Project, resigned from the organization he helped found on Friday evening. Earlier that day, the company’s chief spokesperson Kurt Bardella also stepped down. The night before, the Lincoln Project descended into civil war: Schmidt tweeted from the Lincoln Project’s account private messages from a recently departed co-founder, accusing her and a reporter of preparing a “hit job” on the political action committee. George Conway, another co-founder, called on the Lincoln Project to launch an independent investigation after Intelligencer’s “disturbing and appalling” report. Through it all, multiple former employees and associates demanded the Lincoln Project release them from nondisclosure agreements so they may speak openly about the company and Weaver.

On Thursday, Intelligencer reported that the Lincoln Project was warned last June by an employee that Weaver — a co-founder and two-time campaign aide to John McCain — had preyed on a man inside the company and may be using his position to groom new victims by dangling job opportunities to young men he sent sexually explicit messages to without their consent. (The Associated Press was the first to report on the complaint.) Two men told Intelligencer they were offered jobs by Weaver following the warning to the company, including one who said Weaver continued to prey on him after he started as an intern last summer.

Though the Lincoln Project and it’s co-founders deny any knowledge of the accusations against Weaver until this year, the warning in June was sent to co-founder Ron Steslow who shared it with co-founder Reed Galen and the company’s corporate counsel. Weaver went on “medical leave” in August, but reappeared inside the company in October — and appeared on a 60 Minutes segment about the group. By that time, former employees told Intelligencer, the accusations against Weaver were an open secret inside the Lincoln Project; co-founders Rick Wilson and Schmidt were quoted at a staff party disparaging Weaver and saying it’s “being taken care of.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/steve-schmidt-quits-lincoln-project-amid-john-weaver-scandal.html

This article was published on Abraham Lincoln's birthday. I'm just glad I never supported The Lincoln Project.