The Lincoln Project, you sanctimonious snake oil salesmen, how long must we endure your preening, parasitic parade of political failure before the nation finally exorcises your stench from the public square?
Exploiting Fear and Spreading Conspiracies:
The Lincoln Project’s modus operandi is a simple game of persuasion and fear-mongering. They prey upon low-information voters, creating an atmosphere of constant threat and paranoia. By exaggerating the actions of the so-called “MAGA extremists” and painting them as a grave danger, they manipulate vulnerable individuals into believing everything they hold dear is under attack. This fear-driven approach allows the Lincoln Project to position itself as the saviors, fighting against an imagined enemy and urging supporters to contribute financially to their cause.
Early in the timeline of Project Lincoln’s existence, Stephen Kruiser recognized the blatant hypocrisy of the so-called “Principled Conservative” schtick put out by the LP prophets of sleaze…
As we are all painfully aware, the Never-Trump crowd has laughably been blathering on and on about their principles since 2016. If milking as much money as you can while crapping all over 9/10ths of the people you sided with for most of your career is a “principle,” then they have a case. I’m not opposed to anyone making money legally, but I will shoot your high horse if you’re a petty sellout pretending to occupy a position of moral superiority.
The Lincoln Project has rapidly distinguished itself as the worst of the worst. Sure, they bark about principles like all the Nevers do, but they’re so transparently awful that I doubt even they believe their own b.s. Over in Never-Trump Grifterland, the Lincoln Project makes the writers at The Bulwark look like the American Conservative Union.
The major players in the Lincoln Project continue to portray themselves as principled anti-Trump Republicans or — in Schmidt’s case — independents. In reality, they are all advocates for the Democrats now. It’s not just Trump who they want to defeat, it’s any Republican currently running who didn’t disavow Trump and join their pathetic little reindeer games.
Once heralded as conservative saviors turned Never Trump crusaders, Project Lincoln’s hollow empire has devolved into a circus of grift, hubris, and spectacular collapse, leaving a trail of betrayed donors, squandered millions, and public ridicule in their wake. Their 2020 betrayal of conservatism, as the Patriot Post exposed in November 2020, was a shameless cash grab—promising to topple Trump with viral ads and tiki-torch stunts, only to crash harder than a lead balloon at a clown convention, achieving nothing but a $67 million fundraising fiasco that enriched the inner circle while delivering zero electoral impact.
The Patriot Post: Lincoln Project Betrayed Conservatives, but Failed
There are some who out of firm conviction and commitment to their stated principles play the game fairly, win or lose. Then there are those who seek to use underhanded tactics to defeat their opponents irrespective of the standards, all while justifying their behavior by insisting on the “righteousness” of their cause. The latter defines the fallaciously named “Lincoln Project,” a group of anti-Trump self-proclaimed “Republicans” that ran a well-funded ad campaign against President Donald Trump and Republican senators. The ads were, according to the left-wing Atlantic, “personally abusive, overwrought, pointlessly salacious, and trip-wired with non sequiturs.” Fortunately, the betrayal was largely a failure.
The truth is that the members of The Lincoln Project are not really Republicans at all. They are political grifters who have taken advantage of the Left’s hatred of Trump to rake in millions. As the Washington Examiner notes, “After the election, the [Lincoln Project] plans to expand its brand into a new media network, recently signing with United Talent Agency to build Lincoln Media.” These charlatans not only fail to stand on any principles even remotely consistent with conservative values, but they’re actively opposing those principles. They are better described as traitors to the conservative cause and the Republican Party.
Washington Examiner: Twitter removes Lincoln Project post that doxxed lawyers representing Trump
Twitter removed a post from the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump PAC, on Tuesday in which it provided the contact information for two lawyers representing President Trump and told its followers to “make them famous.”
A spokesperson for Twitter told the Washington Examiner that the tweet violated the social media platform’s rules on abusive behavior.
“The account owner will be required to delete the violative tweet before regaining access to their account,” the spokesperson said.
“Here are two attorneys attempting to help Trump overturn the will of the Pennsylvanian people,” the Lincoln Project tweeted, providing both the phone numbers and email addresses to doxx the lawyers. “Make them famous.”
Merriam-Webster defines doxxing as publishing “private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge.”
The two lawyers work for the Porter Wright Morris & Arthur law firm’s Pittsburgh location. That firm and the Ohio-based Jones Day law firm are representing the Trump campaign in a federal lawsuit filed on Monday alleging voting irregularities in Pennsylvania, according to the American Bar Association Journal.
In recent months, the fragile edifice of The Lincoln Project’s financial empire collapsed spectacularly into public view, exposing a laughable operation teetering on the brink of insolvency and drowning in its own excesses. Internal documents and whistleblower accounts, detailed in our scathing exposé published on February 3, 2025, revealed a staggering pattern of mismanagement: millions of dollars squandered on exorbitant salaries for founders and staff—some pulling in six-figure paychecks despite the organization’s nonprofit status—while frivolous spending on flashy TikTok campaigns, viral video productions, and over-the-top social media stunts drained the coffers dry.
These theatrics meant to recapture the fleeting buzz of their 2020 anti-Trump ads, instead became a parody of relevance, with cringe-inducing dance routines and hashtag-driven pleas for attention that mocked their own credibility. Labeled “financial fools” by critics and former donors, the group’s once-lofty promises of saving democracy from Trumpism were reduced to pathetic begging for scraps from a dwindling pool of gullible supporters—many of whom, burned by past donations, now view the Project as little more than a grift masquerading as a movement. The exposé painted a picture of a group so blinded by hubris that it failed to see its own implosion, leaving behind a trail of unpaid bills, disillusioned backers, and a legacy of fiscal recklessness that shattered any remaining pretense of fiscal responsibility.
Then came Resolute Square, [Grifter Project 2.0] August 2024 rebrand—a desperate, hucksterish ploy to squeeze more donations from a base they already bled dry, a pathetic pantomime of relevance so transparent it screams desperation from the rooftops. And let’s not forget, co-founder Rick Wilson, the smirking jester of their court, whose sneering quips about “childless cat ladies” and “rubes” in May 2024 turned him into the laugh line that keeps on giving—a walking parody of elitist scorn, alienating even their dwindling fanbase.
Queue up MediaBiasFactCheck.com…
RESOLUTE SQUARE: These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information reporting that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.
It seems there are a variety of ways to package “Grift.”
Rick Wilson has a new grift, same as the old grift, but with “military-grade” nomenclature and new big bads to get the marks to fork over their money https://t.co/KIGQgrmyFR
— Andrew Donaldson (@four4thefire) November 20, 2024
There is a limit to how much Trump Derangement rhetoric will be tolerated.
PF Media: Rick Wilson Suspended From X for Promoting Violence Against Tesla
The radical left’s latest target in its crusade against free speech and successful American businesses is Tesla and its owners. Leading the charge is none other than Rick Wilson, the unhinged former Republican strategist turned resistance grifter who co-founded The Lincoln Project.
Wilson, who recently published what I can only describe as a call to violence against Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and owners, has now been suspended from X.
“Tesla is no longer just a car company; it’s a bank for fascists,” Wilson ranted in his deranged post on his Substack, describing the innovative American automaker as a “goose-stepping hedge fund.”
Now that his violent rhetoric has gotten him suspended from X, Wilson is desperately trying to backpedal, claiming he wasn’t advocating for more violence.
Let’s not forget that Wilson used violent rhetoric against Donald Trump back in 2015, when, during an appearance on MSNBC with Chris Hayes, said “The donor class can’t just sit back on the sidelines and say, ‘Oh, well, don’t worry, this will work itself out.’ They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”
Could this be the final, flaming straw? “Kill Tesla, Save the Country” caps their legacy of absurdity with a violent, unhinged crescendo, proving their rocket-fueled hubris always ends in self-destruction. From grifters to pariahs, The Lincoln Project’s reign of failure is a cautionary tale—and Wilson’s ban is the deafening thud of irrelevance hitting rock bottom. Can America finally wake up to this charade, or will they keep peddling their poison until the last sucker signs up? The evidence screams: it’s time to shut this circus down!
And no discussion of Rick Wilson would be complete without these choice words offered by Tim Young at The Washington Times, “How is the Lincoln Project still in business?” –– For people who have willingly given their money to Lincoln Project grifters, the word ‘sucker’ doesn’t go deep enough.
When they’re not pocketing cash, they’re busy being some of the most blatant hypocrites in American politics. When founder Rick Wilson wasn’t busy being mislabeled as an accurate representation of a conservative on CNN and MSNBC, he spent most of his last year attacking President Trump and the GOP for ‘being racist.’ Unfortunately for the sloppy Mr. Wilson, he forgot to clean up piles of tweets disparaging Mexicans and Muslims — and pictures of his ‘South will rise again’ Confederate Flag cooler before going on his long-winded rants.
And lest there be any doubt that there has been a highly suspicious turnaround in his politics, the following real posts by Rick Wilson are presented without comment…
“Never-Trump” has run its course, as he was just one guy. The transport trucks hauling that hatred are bogged down in the mud. It’s time to “create” a new common foe and realizing they can’t really create a “common vision,” they must invent something that the mob mentality will naturally gravitate to … someone or a group of people upon which to focus a new mutual hatred. Group psychology 101.