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From Lincoln Project filing. You have to keep a close eye on donors - Pierre Omidyar‘s project - registered Russian agent

2020-07-16

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

From Lincoln Project filing. You have to keep a close eye on donors. Sometimes a refund is in order. https://t.co/eoIYz3gK0G pic.twitter.com/8FsMmXRmVx
— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 15, 2020

GOP 'Never Trumpers' Are Paid by a 'Radical' Leftist Billionaire
[PJMedia] The Never-Trumper group called "The Lincoln Project" is funded by a Leftist billionaire, according to a new book on the subject.

The project features, among others, GOP political strategists Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, the Washington Post’s "conservative" columnist Jennifer Rubin, former "Weekly Standard" editor Bill Kristol, and disgruntled attorney, George "Mr. Kellyanne" Conway, who spends nearly all of his time trying to ruin his wife’s White House career.

In her new book, Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried―And Failed―To Take Down the President, news hound Julie Kelly looks into this group of out of work and out of favor politicos — left on the sidelines after a Trump 2016 victory. She wonders how they got the money to begin their political monkeywrenching operation against Trump after the Weekly Standard, a reliable home for the "Resistance®," went bust.

Kelly assembled the pieces of the Kristol and company money machine puzzle and winds up with a picture of a Silicon Valley billionaire. She depicts the relationship as one of basically paymaster and servant.

Kristol and most of his NeverTrump cohorts are on the dole of a left-wing philanthropist generously underwriting any cause or influencer committed to ending the Trump presidency. This billionaire benefactor has tried to stop Trump since 2016; he’s buying off so-called conservatives to create the illusion of broad intra-party disgust with Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, an illusion that does not exist but that NeverTrump is paid — handsomely — to represent.

Pierre Omidyar is a very rich man.

Kelly reports that Omidyar is the founder of eBay and the publisher of "The Intercept." He was a billionaire at the age of 31 and is throwing around his money like his idol, George Soros

...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...

The tech titan runs an extensive operation of nonprofits through the Omidyar Network, based in Silicon Valley. In 2017 alone, his foundation donated roughly $85 million to a variety of causes around the world. As one would expect from a Bay-area billionaire, Omidyar is anything but conservative. He, along with like-minded tycoons such as George Soros and Tom Steyer, promotes a far-left radical agenda.

Kelly reports that Kristol and other Trump haters have created or run several groups, including Defending Democracy Together and the Niskanen Center, which also receives Soros funding and which is full of well known Republicans.

Niskanen houses a who’s who of NeverTrumpers. Gabe Schoenfeld, author of a hit piece on Victor Davis Hanson, and writer Linda Chavez are senior fellows. Its advisory board includes ~~Egg McMuffin~~ Evan McMullin,

...I’d been wondering what he was doing with his clever self...

Mindy Finn, David Frum and Tom Nichols. In December 2018, Niskanen hosted a daylong seminar entitled ’Starting Over: The Center-Right After Trump’. Panelists included conservatives-turned-lefties Jennifer Rubin, David Frum and Bill Kristol.

ANTI-TRUMP TROLLING FOR DOLLARS
Rick Wilson announced that the anti-Trump group raised nearly $17 million to this quarter to continue their Trump hate programs. And now they’re working to get rid of Republican Senators, just like the Democrats.

Consider this group a force-multiplier for the Democrats.

The Never-Trumpers are making a splash this week after apparently orchestrating the outrageous USA Today "fact" check that floated the idea that the American eagle used on a Trump t-shirt was a Nazi symbol. That’s right, an American eagle. Worse, as I reported here, the people who "first noticed" the "similarity" were an antifa murderous Moslem in one Facebook post and — wait for it — "The Lincoln Project." That troll dove-tailed with a laudatory Washington Post story and several others predicting that the group of Trump haters would be a force to be reckoned with this election. So it looks like that billionaire money is paying off in free media.

Lincoln Project Co-Founder Registered as Foreign Agent of Russia
[Bongino] One of President Donald Trump’s greatest critics has been exposed as having more Russian ties than they allege he has.

After a video of Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson being humiliated in an interview on “Inside the Hill” began circulating Twitter yesterday, Mike Cernovich pointed out that the group’s other co-founder John Weaver is a registered foreign agent for Russia.

Weaver’s registering as a foreign agent was reported by Politico in May of 2019.

Weaver later cancelled the contract when it was made public and reported on.

Posted by:Fred

#5 "I was turning my life around...tomorrow"

Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-16 16:08

#4 ^I have a friend who's a police detective. According to him, he never met a criminal who believed himself a criminal.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-16 15:46

#3 Actually, G(r)rom, I think it's 'Ricola'. Swiss banks and all.
The sad part is not that they're hypocrits, but that they're mad that they got caught.

Posted by: ed in texas 2020-07-16 15:36

#2 ^I can even say Rico.

p.s. Why isn't it RICOA?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-16 07:47

#1 Can you say 'collusion' boys and girls

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-16 07:34

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