Lincoln Project Hires Lincoln Project Donors to Investigate Lincoln Project

The disgraced Lincoln Project has just hired Lincoln Project donors to investigate the Lincoln Project.

That sounds like a joke. Well, it is, but it’s a joke that happens to be true, and one that perfectly encapsulates just how rotted, corrupt, and dangerous American institutions have become.

Two lead attorneys at Paul Hastings, an international law firm retained by the Lincoln Project to probe misconduct allegations internally, have donated to the organization before.

h/t James Kirchik, The Tablet (excerpt)

This is the world of shame, repression, and deceit that Republican political operative John Weaver inhabited for 61 years while posing as a truth-teller and a man of conscience.

The former John McCain adviser, co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and married father, last month admitted to sending sexual propositions via text and Twitter to numerous young men over the course of several years, sometimes with promises of jobs and professional advancement attached.

In every case but one—a 14-year-old recipient with whom Weaver did not communicate anything overtly sexual until he was 18—the lurid missives were directed at legal adults.

Regardless, Weaver’s actions were unprofessional and awful—a clear abuse of his position and power.

In the ongoing meltdown of the Lincoln Project, however, it’s not John Weaver whose behavior stands out for being the most morally depraved.

That badge of dishonor belongs to fellow Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt, who, precisely at the moment of his former colleague’s personal and professional ruin, decided to revive the calumny associating gay men with pedophilia.

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