Mid-year FEC report shows at least some donors have forgiven the Lincoln Project for the pederasty-enabling and the wholesale grifting in the pursuit of generational wealth transgressions, contributing $4.8M to the scandal-plagued group.
While Lincoln Project brought in $4.8M, the operating expenses of $8.5M suggest there might be an incipient panicked rush for the exits, with everyone involved grabbing everything that isn't nailed down on the way out.
Lincoln Project spent $1.37M on non-political media buys, spent $1.12M on its streaming services, and paid over $964K on legal fees and $610K on communication consulting as it struggled to repair its battered reputation.
Outside of the media buys and streaming, the biggest recipient of Lincoln Project cash was Impartial Partners, an anonymously-registered Albany, NY LLC that formed in May that is probably definitely not a vehicle for someone wishing to accumulate generational wealth.
Other outlays:
$410K Summit Strategic (Reed Galen)
$324.7K TUSK (Ron Steslow)
$248.4K Third Act Media (Ben Howe)
$173.8K (Nate Nesbitt)
$115K Message Mountain (Stu Stevens)
$89K Veracity Reigns (Tara Setmayer)
$55K Kurt Bardella
$50K Joe Trippi
$25K Steve Schmidt (SES Strategies)
It remains unclear how many more Benjamins are flowing through the Franklin Project, the dark money offshoot formerly known as 'Project Yellowstone'.
While Lincoln Project was very adept at shielding the cash transfers to some of its more problematic members by routing the payments through intermediaries, public tax records suggest that the Lincoln Project members probably made out OK.
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(With John Weaver's $1.4 million mortgage paid off 27 years early, he probably doesn't need to worry about having to move and the reintroducing himself to the new neighbors that would entail).
While its political spending track record was mixed at best, Lincoln Project excelled at persuading its audience of #Resist donors to part with $99.6M of their money, burning through $47.1 million on operating expenditures and independent expenditures supposedly totaling $49.7M.
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