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21 Men Accuse Lincoln Project Co-Founder of Online Harassment
NY Times ^ | Jan 31 | By Maggie Astor and Danny Hakim

Posted on 01/31/2021 8:01:46 AM PST by RandFan

John Weaver, a longtime G.O.P. operative who advised John McCain and John Kasich, made sexual overtures to young men, sometimes offering to help them get work in politics.

John Weaver, a longtime Republican strategist and co-founder of the prominent anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project, has for years sent unsolicited and sexually provocative messages online to young men, often while suggesting he could help them get work in politics, according to interviews with 21 men who received them.

His solicitations included sending messages to a 14-year-old, asking questions about his body while he was still in high school and then more pointed ones after he turned 18.

These messages from Mr. Weaver, 61, who helped run John McCain’s presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2008 and John Kasich’s in 2016, did not lead to physical encounters except in one consensual case, and none of the men accused Mr. Weaver of unlawful conduct. Rather, many of them described feeling preyed upon by an influential older man in the field in which they wanted to work, and believing they had to engage with his repeated messaging or lose a professional opportunity.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: georgeconway; johnkasich; johnmccain; johnweaver; lincolnproject; perverts; rickwilson; steveschmidt
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1 posted on 01/31/2021 8:01:46 AM PST by RandFan
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That is probably okay since they are anti Trump people.


2 posted on 01/31/2021 8:03:49 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: RandFan

“advised John McCain and John Kasich, made sexual overtures to young men”

That seems to add up.


3 posted on 01/31/2021 8:04:27 AM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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To: RandFan

“John Weaver, a longtime G.O.P. operative who advised John McCain and John Kasich, made sexual overtures to young men, sometimes offering to help them get work in politics.”

How is that unusual for these political creeps?


4 posted on 01/31/2021 8:12:08 AM PST by dljordan
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To: RandFan

I guess there are a LOT of homosexuals looking to get into government whore positions.


5 posted on 01/31/2021 8:14:28 AM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: RandFan
Good. All these RINO poseurs and Never-Trumpers are about to be on the outs with everyone. They'll never again be trusted by conservatives. And we all know the Left will want nothing to do with them after they served their purposes.

Trump's biggest accomplishment was blowing up the facade two-party system in which Republicans were controlled opposition, supported by PACs, strategists, columnists, and think-tanks that hoodwinked conservatives every four years.

6 posted on 01/31/2021 8:24:20 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: RandFan

I think we are beginning to see some of the reasons why the “lincoln project” hates people like us and DJT- they are crooks and perverts.


7 posted on 01/31/2021 8:33:13 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: RandFan

It winds up that the ‘Lincoln Project’ was just a giant bath-house. That’s how they kept the discipline there.


8 posted on 01/31/2021 8:36:10 AM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: RandFan

So is this the Lincoln Log Cabin Republican Project?


9 posted on 01/31/2021 8:54:58 AM PST by RatsDawg
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To: RandFan

Why are there so many perverts in politics?

Is it the ‘Scum always drifts to the top’ principle?


10 posted on 01/31/2021 9:06:14 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: RandFan

He’s a real dirtbag.

Everyone of those elitist Lincoln Project clowns are dirtbags. Trump was beneath their dignity. Meanwhile, look at these clowns. George Conway’s daughter is an excellent example.


11 posted on 01/31/2021 9:07:57 AM PST by boycott
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ha ha- Creeps?

I wonder if Dennis Hastert was helping with the finding of
under age boys? always remember- Dennis was THE LONGEST
SERVING REPUBLICAN SPEAKER of the house- and know one
knew what a piece of scum he was- he led the the charge
of rino’s - he helped set up the various slush funds in congress- to PAY for MALE prostitutes- and was probably STILL using these “funds” after retiring - man are we screwed


12 posted on 01/31/2021 9:08:50 AM PST by mj1234
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MAN, I wish Trump was still tweeting against his enemies.

The one’s against the Lincoln Project would be EPIC.


13 posted on 01/31/2021 9:15:31 AM PST by PGR88
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To: RandFan

The other hilarious thing about this - Democrat donors gave these pervert / scam artists $60 million to do their thing.


14 posted on 01/31/2021 9:18:11 AM PST by PGR88
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To: RandFan

Lincoln Project gay men bathhouse get seduced. Seems par for the course for anti-Trumpers.


15 posted on 01/31/2021 9:19:08 AM PST by VeniVidiVici ( )
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Lincoln Project are all Log Cabin Republicans.....


16 posted on 01/31/2021 9:22:22 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RandFan

Of course the “revelations” about Lincoln Project leadership come out AFTER the elections.

Hopefully, the POS traitors in the LP will go down one at a time for their various acts of degeneracy. Few humans are lower than these war-mongering, corporate-whore, grifters.


17 posted on 01/31/2021 9:26:39 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: RandFan

So now the media is going to emphasize that these guys are labeled as “Republicans” or “GOP” now that they are in a scandal vs. the Leftists and Democrat supporters that they are. When Susan Collins is too conservative/right-wing for you, you are far from being in the Republican mainstream.


18 posted on 01/31/2021 9:32:21 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: RandFan
John Lennon - Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
19 posted on 01/31/2021 10:11:08 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: RandFan

RINOs are SO GAY!


20 posted on 01/31/2021 10:42:45 AM PST by House Atreides
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