What did Rick Wilson do with the $64,766 he raised for a film he never released? – IOTW Report

What did Rick Wilson do with the $64,766 he raised for a film he never released?

Techno Fog:

The Profits of Never Trump.

It’s early in the Biden Administration and the media coverage is fawning, a preview of a four-year honeymoon. You won’t find reporting on the Hunter Biden investigation or whether John Durham will be allowed to continue as Special Counsel. But we have seen pieces on Kamala’s Converse All Stars and the White House dogs, and we’ve heard from reporters asking if President Biden will change the color scheme of Air Force One.

This stands in stark contrast to the media’s allegations in the early part the Trump Presidency. Claims that they colluded with Russia, that Trump was installed by Putin, that a reckless maniac with control of the nuclear codes was in the White House. Even those on the right believed the early reporting and were convinced that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. Some will never be convinced otherwise.

The hot air of controversy – a creation of the press and their allies in the government – continued for the entirety of the Trump Presidency, and presented the perfect opportunity for a political grift. It’s easy to fundraise when your opponent is an an alleged fascist controlled by a Cold War enemy.

One of the most successful of all the grifts is the Lincoln Project, a super PAC co-founded in late 2019 by “conservative” political operatives Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver (and others). Playing off an unhinged media, they (along with anti-Trump lawyer George Conway) announced the Lincoln Project’s formation in a December 2019 New York times opinion piece, appealing to “American values” and promising to help defeat “the scourge of Trumpism.”

Moderates, disaffected conservatives, and many on the left took the bait. The Lincoln Project was a financial juggernaut. According to OpenSecrets.org, the Lincoln Project raised just over $87 million from 2019-2020. They raised money from billionaires and small donors, from corporations and members of the government. Business was good. Apparently it still is, despite the troubling allegations against John Weaver, one of their founders recently accused of sending suggestive messages to a 14 year-old boy.
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13 Comments on What did Rick Wilson do with the $64,766 he raised for a film he never released?

  1. Rick Wilson- Protecter of a pedo???

    You know they all had to know including Mister Kelly Ann Conway.
    If Karl Rove knew, McCain knew, Kasich prob knew too!

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  2. Rick “The Dick” Wilson. Mr. Magoo. He doesn’t like that shit. A physical and facial freak. Face it, the mother fxckers deformed. He doesn’t like that shit either. I think that was my second permanent expulsion from twitter,.

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