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‘Lincoln Project’ Co-Founder John Weaver Signed Six-Figure Deal with Russia, Pulled Out After Backlash
Breitbart ^ | June 15 2020 | KYLE OLSON

Posted on 07/15/2020 12:27:25 PM PDT by knighthawk

John Weaver, one co-founder of The Lincoln Project Super PAC, signed a deal in 2019 with a Russian state-owned company to advocate for its interests — but ultimately rejected the contract once he was accused of hypocrisy for his years of calling President Donald Trump a pawn of Vladimir Putin.

Weaver, a career political consultant who started The Lincoln Project to defeat President Donald Trump’s reelection bid, signed an agreement on May 10, 2019 with Tenam Corporation, “a subsidiary of Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company,” Politico reported at the time.

According to the contract, which Weaver was required to file with the Department of Justice because he was acting as a foreign agent, he was tasked with lobbying the Trump administration and Congress on “sanctions or other restrictions in the area of atomic (nuclear) trade, or cooperation involving in any way the Russian Federation.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreignagent; johnweaver; lincolnproject; nevertrump; politicalconsultant; rinos; russia; superpac

1 posted on 07/15/2020 12:27:25 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

One of their social media guys had to resign the other day after past tweets offensive to women were found.

This is really the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.


2 posted on 07/15/2020 12:28:22 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: knighthawk

HAS the Lincoln Project EVER criticized a Democrat?


3 posted on 07/15/2020 12:30:48 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: knighthawk

Would be willing to bet George Conway was involved one way or the other too.......


4 posted on 07/15/2020 12:42:06 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Buckeye McFrog
This is really the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.

Everything they do reveals them as entitled, elitist, deep-state, DC-swamp RINOs.

5 posted on 07/15/2020 12:51:54 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: knighthawk

Pretty clear the Dims and the anti Trumpers are in bed with Russian and Chinese Communists, Iran, Saudi, et al

And of course, always with each other

They’re being EXPOSED as HIV+


6 posted on 07/15/2020 1:13:12 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (See St George's Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
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To: PGR88

They are part and parcel of the deep state swamp or the beltway bubble.

Seriously.

The economy of DC revolves around government workers and government contractors/think tanks/lobbyists. Trump is perceived as a threat to both groups - he is talking about moving more government jobs out of DC to other locales AND he has seriously threatened the gravy train for the latter.

Just ask yourself where all of these people live and work. They are better labeled the Beltway Republicrats than the Lincoln Project. Lincoln would have hung them all.


7 posted on 07/15/2020 1:19:52 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

Perhaps during Trump’s second term he could ‘redistribute’ these offices throughout the country. Like the Bureau of Land Management Headquarters moved to Colorado and the USDA offices of the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) moved to Kansas City, MO


8 posted on 07/15/2020 2:00:28 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: griswold3

I think breaking the government out of DC would be one of the best changes he could make. The DC bubble is a mess right now.


9 posted on 07/15/2020 2:12:24 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

pING!!!!!!!


10 posted on 07/15/2020 5:13:51 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: bitt

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/there_are_lies_damn_lies_and_then_there_is_the_lincoln_project_.html

July 13, 2020
There are Lies, Damn Lies, and then There is the Lincoln Project.


11 posted on 07/15/2020 5:17:07 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: volunbeer

Considering the DC area has the nations highest median income, call it “area median income redistribution”.


12 posted on 07/15/2020 5:33:05 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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13 posted on 07/15/2020 7:25:00 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: LeonardFMason

Lincoln Project reports raising $16.8 million for anti-Trump efforts

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/507510-lincoln-project-reports-raising-168-million-for-anti-trump-efforts


14 posted on 07/15/2020 7:26:31 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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