Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES

.@JayCaruso I asked you a question hours ago. What are the names of the men who made complaints to @ProjectLincoln? Why can’t you name them.? Why can’t you name the people who were ignored? You know why? Because it’s a smear and it’s all BS. I can name the people who made

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Complaints against Trump. Why can’t you do it against @ProjectLincoln? I can name the women that made complaints about Andrew Cuomo. Why can’t you do this simple thing? Are you a journalist? For months you have made ad hominem attacks alleging a coverup. What are your facts?

Names, dates, places, people? What does your General Counsel think about that? What about your superiors? How about your colleagues?

Or has all pretense of reporting reality and facts just completely disappeared? Is that what conservatism is too you? What is it that you do for a living exactly? The job of the Managing Editor of the Washington Examiner is smearing people who oppose Trump with

Ad hominem, guilt by association attacks that lack any facts? Is that the job? Does the “Conservative Media” issue a double 00 license to smear to the Managing Editor of the Washington Examiner? I’d like you to take down your posts or lay down your cards. You’ll do neither.

The reasons for that are two fold. First, you are happily dishonest. Second, you are not in fact what you claim to be. A Journalist seeks truth. You are a propagandist for the worst cause in this country since the Confederacy and Jim Crow. Here are the facts. No person ever

Filed an allegation against John Weaver with @ProjectLincoln. The Hastings Law firm conducted an independent investigation of the matter and concluded that the organizations General Counsel handled the matter properly with regard to the conclusion that there was no credible

allegation. Please try and tell me what it is that happened that gives you license to say the things you’ve said.? I have a feeling that I’m going to be waiting. @brianstelter @EricBoehlert @ErikWemple . The media coverage around this issue has been beyond slovenly.

The dishonesty of the Conservative media and the Fox smear machine on this matter are appalling. I’d like to add a personal note. If there are no people who filed complaints against John Weaver with @ProjectLincoln and John Weaver was never ever physically present with any human

being involved in @ProjectLincoln and all of the allegations of sexual advances occurred before the Lincoln Project existed, why is Weavers conduct my fault and responsibility? Why is it the fault of @ProjectLincoln? What gives @JayCaruso the right to incite insanity towards my

children, my home and my person by calling me a Pedophile enabler? What gives @JayCaruso the right to use Q anon conspiracy words in his attacks on me? Does he consider it hunting? Is he hoping that one of the crazies that has been triggered to make a threat of violence against

me online or send bags of human excrement to my children’s door step will take it further? @JayCaruso In your fantasy are you hoping for a gun? A knife? Has the FBI ever been to your house Jay? Have they ever been there to tell you that you were found on a list made by a Biden

Bomber? I’m guessing the answer is no @JayCaruso. The only bombers seem to be associated with the man you smear for, Trump. That’s what brought the FBI to the door my son answered. What gives Jay the right to smear me or the @ProjectLincoln is the First Amendment and as

Disgusting as I find @JayCaruso I will be the first in line to defend his right to use it to defame me and even create danger for my family as a result. The First Amendment is that sacred. What is broken, it seems to me is a media culture that lacks the ability to connect the

dots. It isn’t about the @ProjectLincoln and @JayCaruso doesn’t even matter. It’s about the intimidation, the intimations of violence and extremism that is spreading like a hemmoraghic fever. It’s about the School Boards and the citizens who volunteer to serve who are being

threatened with death by political extremists egged on by a former President and the GOP Leadership of the country. It’s about members of Congress who are threatened and intimidated as well as journalists who seek truth. It’s about fascist organizations like the Proud Boys who

are an open air part of the GOP emblazoning Kyle Rittenhouse on sweatshirts with dead black Americans at his feet. I’m proud of the role the @ProjectLincoln played in 2020. I’m sad that the organization has done such a bad job of communicating the facts around the Hundreds of

thousands donated to Stacey Abrahams or millions spent on grass roots activity with great leaders and activists like @Michael_Nutter and Reverend Tyler in Philadelphia. The Lincoln Project threw no low blows. I stand behind every ad and challenge someone to tell me what ad is

factually errant. There are none through the Georgia specials when I was running the strategy. Either way it doesn’t matter. The only thing that does is this. I am an American and it is my birthright to speak out and fight back against authority including and especially against

a President as awful as Trump. In the United States no person should be smeared for speaking up and out. If it can happen to me and @ProjectLincoln it can happen to anyone. How much longer does anyone think it will be before people start thinking twice about being involved

in a groups like Planned Parenthood or the NAACP or a thousand others that draw the gaze of hatred, extremism and menace. I called out @JayCaruso because he deserves it and because cleaning up this cesspool has to start with saying enough.

Politics is a tough business and it should be. The stakes are high. In this country it shouldn’t be a lethal business. It’s heading there because of men like @JDVance1, Trump, @rupertmurdoch, @GOPLeader, @TuckerCarlson and a thousand nodules of interwoven puss.

venom and misinformation. It is there that @JayCaruso lives, in the cesspool, inciting violence and smearing the enemies of the man who tried to be an American dictator.