The Lincoln Project

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ph1l · Feb 12, 2021

Would Honest Abe approve of this?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lincoln-project-steve-schmidt-home-utah

Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt bought million-dollar Utah house as operatives got rich
Only $27M of the $90M that The Lincoln Project has raised since 2019 went toward advertising
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News

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Steve Schmidt, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, bought a million-dollar Utah home as the PAC raked in huge profits.

The Lincoln Project saw significant financial success leading up to the November election, raising $90 million in total since its creation in 2019, but the organization has spent more than $50 million on consulting firms controlled by the group's leaders.

Schmidt purchased a $1.4 million "Mountain Modern" custom home in Kamas, Utah, with five bedrooms, seven baths and a "stunning" view of the Uinta Mountains, according to property records and real estate listings. He is currently trying to resell the home for more than $2.9 million.

The house, built in 2013, sits on 1.65 acres of land with "unobstructed views of the beautiful Tuhaye fairways," a listing on Realtor.com says. Home prices in the surrounding area range from about $500,000 to more than $2.5 million.

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"We fully comply with the law," Schmidt said of the PAC's financial practices. "The Lincoln Project will be delighted to open its books for audit immediately after the Trump campaign and all affiliated super PACs do so, explaining the cash flow of the nearly $700 million that flowed through their organizations controlled by Brad Parscale and Jared Kushner."

Steve Schmidt Utah home (Credit: Fox News screenshot / Google Maps)

Other Lincoln Project members used the money earned during their time with PAC to refinance homes.

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It is unclear how much other members of the group were paid because the Lincoln Project adopted a strategy, much like the Trump campaign they criticized, to mask how much money they earned.

Schmidt collected a $1.5 million payment in December but quickly returned it.

While several firms linked to the PAC's members did collect payments, co-founders John Weaver and Rick Wilson are not listed in publicly available records. They were likely paid as subcontractors to those firms, an arrangement that avoids disclosure.

Only $27 million of the $90 million The Lincoln Project raised in total were paid directly for broadcast, cable and digital advertisements that aired during the 2020 campaign, according to an analysis of campaign finance disclosures and data from the ad tracking firm Kantar/CMAG.

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That leaves tens of millions of dollars that went toward expenses like production costs, overhead — and exorbitant consulting fees collected by members of the group.

Journalists and political pundits have criticized the Lincoln Project in recent weeks after reporters revealed inappropriate communications between co-founder John Weaver and various young men, which the PAC did not publicly comment on or take action against until this year, despite prior warnings about his conduct.

There is no evidence that the Lincoln Project buried the allegations against Weaver for business reasons. But taken together, the harassment allegations and new revelations about spending practices raise significant questions about the management of one of the highest-profile antagonists of Trump. The revelations threaten the stature of not just the Lincoln Project but the broader coalition of establishment-oriented Republican groups hoping to pool their resources to excise Trump from the party.

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Schmidt insisted that he and the rest of the group's leadership were not aware of any internal allegations of wrongdoing involving Weaver.

"No Lincoln Project employee, intern, or contractors ever made an allegation of inappropriate communication about John Weaver that would have triggered an investigation by HR or by an outside employment counsel," Schmidt said. "In other words, no human being ever made an allegation about any inappropriate sexualized communications about John Weaver ever
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smallfil · Feb 12, 2021

Hypocritical asswipes caught with their pants down again. If the FBI and DOJ were only doing their jobs, these clowns would be charged and locked up already.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media...t-nayyera-haq-resigns-amid-multiple-scandals/

Tony Stark · Feb 12, 2021

ph1l said:
Would Honest Abe approve of this?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lincoln-project-steve-schmidt-home-utah
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Good for him.He did great work and deserves it.

newwurldmn · Feb 13, 2021

ph1l said:
Would Honest Abe approve of this?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lincoln-project-steve-schmidt-home-utah
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zero of the 200mm of the donations to Trumps election fight fund went to fighting the election.

would honest Abe approve of that?

(trump has compared himself to Lincoln many times).

newwurldmn · Feb 13, 2021

Tony Stark said:
Good for him.He did great work and deserves it.
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they were scary effective with only 27mm worth of advertising!

wrbtrader · Feb 13, 2021

newwurldmn said:
zero of the 200mm of the donations to Trumps election fight fund went to fighting the election.

would honest Abe approve of that?

(trump has compared himself to Lincoln many times).
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I never understood any of those lame comparisons he made to Lincoln...completely different times.

Yet, he should have made comparisons to other Presidents in his own century...resulting in him seeing he'll go down in history as one of the worst Presidents...much of it due to his own doing and mismanagement of the oval office.

wrbtrader

newwurldmn · Feb 13, 2021

wrbtrader said:
I never understood any of those lame comparisons he made to Lincoln...completely different times.

Yet, he should have made comparisons to other Presidents in his own century...resulting in him seeing he'll go down in history as one of the worst Presidents...much of it due to his own doing and mismanagement of the oval office.

wrbtrader
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he should only compared himself to Harding and Nixon. Those were the most apt.