Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES

.@ProjectLincoln should either be professionalized and reformed or shut down. I founded it. i left it a year ago. The @Showtime documentary documents some of the most despicable and unethical behavior I have ever seen.

I would like to see the following things happen.

1. @reedgalen must step down from the @ProjectLincoln board because his lie and coverup destroyed the organization as much as @madrid_mike @ronsteslow and @madrid_mike @JenniferHorn did with their fame seeking and narcissism.

2/ The Galen lie cost millions of dollar of @ProjectLincoln money and bankrupted the organization. There is only one other place in America where such conduct is acceptable. Maro Lago, home of MAGA. @stuartpstevens and @JoeTrippi should constitute a new, professional and diverse

3/ @ProjectLincoln Board of Directors that follows best practices and operates at the highest ethical standards. I have complete confidence in the integrity, competence and judgement of @JoeTrippi and @stuartpstevens. LP donors can also. I wouldn’t give a penny while Galen is in

4/ charge.

I want to see complete and total financial transparency around the organization. This means the following:

1. An independent CFO
2. A financial oversight Board made up of @ProjectLincoln donors
3. Quarterly public financial reports.
4. Salary caps for all

5/ I want this organization, that I founded, to operate at the highest ethical standards. The reason I left @ProjectLincoln was because I gave them an ultimatum. @reedgalen or me. Galen had appointed himself chair of the Board and controlled all the bank accounts that I told him

6/ to open. I wanted to beat Trump. @reedgalen wanted to be famous and important. There is a shocking and delusional scene at the end of the @ProjectLincoln documentary where Galen says he is the leader of a movement of millions. That makes him as deluded as Trump and MTG

7/ @TheRickWilson is a brilliant ad maker who clearly should never have any leadership or management responsibilities whatsoever in an organization. His talents should be properly directed. There is another issue that I found troubling and was a big factor in my departure from

8/ the @ProjectLincoln. Before the organization started @TheRickWilson set up a GO Fund me to make a movie 🎥 about Trump. He raised tens of thousands of dollars 💵 and never made the movie. I asked him about it 500 times. No movie. I was not comfortable with this. It is a big

9/ deal. Ethics matter. Integrity matters. I urge @TheRickWilson to find a way to return that money and make this right. No one is perfect and Rick has a lot going on. I have never met anyone who works harder. He has to fix this. I hope the donors to @ProjectLincoln will demand

10/ reform. They should. I tried and when it didn’t happen. I left. @ProjectLincoln played an enormous role in helping defeat MAGA in 2020. It has become a self interested shell of that organization under the selfish and dishonest management of @reedgalen.

11/ I would like to see the @ProjectLincoln taken down to the studs after the midterms and made ready for the great fight ahead. I won’t be on board but for those that are they deserve competence, honesty, integrity, transparency and leadership. That means @reedgalen must leave