Thread by @crabcrawler1

I'm a curious crab. Maybe i'll poke around and see who enabled the Lincoln Project to abuse their power...

https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1361724935341813760

If we use March 2020 as a starting point, there's your classics.

HuffPost. CNN.

It was really a different world 11 months ago!

Ah yes, Mother Jones too! you get the point. Leftist MSM/blogs were willing to use the Lincoln Project as their political puppets

David Corn gets a special "HALL OF SHAME" note for advertising the Lincoln Project so heavily.

^ That's what we're really looking for. The blatant stuff.

Last note before we move on to April.

The Lincoln Project went after Trump's wife and kids pretty severely. If you recall. But they were allowed to get away with that, because politics.

> Endorses Biden
Can't miss that.

April 2020: "Ex-GOP Group "The Lincoln Project" Endorses Biden, Launches Brutal Ad Hitting Trump For Golfing During Pandemic" realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/…

LOL. April 2020: Washington Post allows John Weaver and The Lincoln Project to publish an op-ed.

That's fantastic. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

April 2020: Sophia Nelson (self-described CNN pundit) announces stepping down from Lincoln Project because they used "the "R" word"

Given the controversy surrounding The Lincoln Project now? this is laughable.

But it's not like the members of the Lincoln Project had any genuine standards to begin with.

EVEN BACK THEN, in April 2020, there were clear signs that The Lincoln Project was funneling money back to THEMSELVES.

But Orange Man was bad so it's fine

> $5000 for just one ad targeting Trump directly
> made $1.4 MILLION in the aftermath

YEAH I think The Lincoln Project was one heck of a grift

May 2020
> Mitt Romney's former strategist joins Lincoln Project washingtonpost.com/politics/forme…

Another Lincoln Project enabler

Sad!

WEW. This aged poorly.

"I’m not running for anything but if I were I would hire all the people from [The Lincoln Project] immediately" -- Preet Bharara. archive.is/Nvw62

Runner-up goes to Wajahat Ali.😂

June 2020: The American Prospect enables John Weaver with an interview about The Lincoln Project. Boooo. prospect.org/politics/grand…

Look at all that Lincoln Project enablement

No wonder why John Weaver felt so free to go after little boys

Oh there's embarrassment for sure

What I'm learning from this retrospective is that the Lincoln Project pushed a lot of empty rhetoric and hot air into our already hostile political climate.

This being one example of many.

Another example. When there was massive unrest last Summer, The Lincoln Project took advantage of our national instability.

Trump was by no means perfect but at least he had SOME foresight

AGAIN the Washington Post propped up The Lincoln Project

Disgusting! washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Alas, in July 2020 we started to see more behind the Lincoln Project's curtain.

"Lincoln Project founders have ties to Russia and tax troubles, docs reveal" nypost.com/2020/07/21/lin…

SHAME to Michael Steele.

FLASHBACK to last year when people began catching on. "BUSTED: The Lincoln Project fabricates racist Trump supporter" thepostmillennial.com/busted-project…

The abrasiveness of the Lincoln Project's attacks was what they WERE most known for, until.... the John Weaver stuff came out

"Whatever you think of The Lincoln Project, their ads are damn good." -- MSNBC talking head.

Were they, though?

Was it worth it, in the end?

OH YEAH and The Lincoln Project started peddling fake news and were deleting tweets by August 2020

So there's that, too

"Sometimes the stories are true."

YA DON'T SAY lol

Joy Ann Reid was a HUGE Lincoln Project cheerleader. This tweet being one example of MANY months of her support for the controversial group.

Suburban Women wsj.com/articles/anti-…
Latinos mifamiliavota.org/news/the-linco…

All just political NOISE NOISE NOISE

Special shout out to the fact at least SOME folks saw the Lincoln Project's grift

So who can we blame for The Lincoln Project? CNN. A lot of CNN. And NBC. Axios. The Daily Beast too.

"Demi Lovato, the Lincoln Project Partner for Election Ad Campaign" rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

The Lincoln Project disgusts me

They made society worse

A pox on every media outlet who put The Lincoln Project up on a pedestal.

And, as a reminder, The Lincoln Project didn't go away after election day 2020.

In fact, they made the aftermath of sorting that out WORSE.

MUCH MUCH WORSE.

The fact Twitter still allows The Lincoln Project to have an account speaks VOLUMES, given the group's notoriety

And really that's all I have to say about that, for now. Any other tweets re: Lincoln Project from here on out are mostly gonna be add-ons.

But the moral of the story is the 2020 election season enabled terrible people to support terrible things

YOU CANT HIDE FROM THE HALL OF SHAME, Kurt Bardella.

Kurt was a part of Project Lincoln. Never forgetti.