{"id":126940,"date":"2021-02-13T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=126940"},"modified":"2021-02-13T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T20:27:55","slug":"meghan-mccain-distances-family-from-the-lincoln-projects-steve-schmidt-john-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-mccain-distances-family-from-the-lincoln-projects-steve-schmidt-john-weaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan McCain Distances Family From The Lincoln Project\u2019s Steve Schmidt, John Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeghan-mccain-distances-family-from-the-lincoln-projects-steve-schmidt-john-weaver%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=126940&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MegCain.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Meghan McCain distanced herself and her family Friday from Steve Schmidt and John Weaver, both cofounders of The Lincoln Project, amid the fallout from sexual misconduct allegations against Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been very hesitant to comment but since my deceased father keeps getting invoked I will say this,\u201d McCain began in a three-tweet thread addressing the controversy. \u201cJohn Weaver and Steve Schmidt were so despised by my Dad he made it a point to ban them from his funeral. Since 2008, no McCain would have spit on them if they were on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. I&#8217;ve been very hesitant to comment but since my deceased father keeps getting invoked I will say this:<\/p>\n<p>John Weaver and Steve Schmidt were so despised by my Dad he made it a point to ban them from his funeral. Since 2008, no McCain would have spit on them if they were on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1360396300114669570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy heart goes out to the victims of John Weaver, it\u2019s abhorrent and evil \u2013 everyone who knew that this was going on deserves to be held accountable,\u201d McCain continued. \u201cI hope that anyone who covered up for this never works in politics ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2. My heart goes out to the victims of John Weaver, it&#8217;s abhorrent and evil \u2013 everyone who knew that this was going on deserves to be held accountable. I hope that anyone who covered up for this never works in politics ever again.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1360396382650183682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat disgusts me so much is that anyone who would engage in such awful and potentially illegal behavior would use their media associations with my father to gain opportunities. My dad was betrayed by you, hated you for it, and we all know it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3. What disgusts me so much is that anyone who would engage in such awful and potentially illegal behavior would use their media associations with my father to gain opportunities. My dad was betrayed by you, hated you for it, and we all know it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1360396679581728770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Schmidt, a former Republican campaign strategist who worked on the late Sen. John McCain\u2019s (R-AZ) 2008 presidential campaign, resigned from The Lincoln Project on Friday amid allegations that his fellow cofounder Weaver allegedly exhibited sexually predatory behavior toward young men in exchange for career advancement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/lincoln-project-co-founder-resigns-ad554687-f2d1-4b7c-ac0c-5aa555fb312f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a lengthy statement regarding his resignation, Schmidt talked about how he had also allegedly been molested. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/steve-schmidt-resigns-from-the-lincoln-project-releases-statement-claiming-he-was-molested-at-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cIt was just a touch \u2014 a light one \u2014 and it lasted for only a moment,\u201d Schmidt began in a lengthy statement given to journalist Miranda Green. Schmidt went on to recount in detail how, when he was a 13-year-old Boy Scout, a camp medic named Ray allegedly molested him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Schmidt went on to claim his experience \u201cimmolated\u201d his Catholic faith, especially since he claimed it was disgraced Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to whom he reached out to tell his story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA touch on a table at age 13 that lasted seconds has been a defining event in my life,\u201d Schmidt wrote. \u201cIt never went away. That moment bequeathed me the three companions of my life that are always close and often present: anger, shame and depression.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Schmidt went on to use his own experience as a springboard to comment on the allegations against Weaver.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson in August, former vice presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/sarah-palin-steve-schmidt-sabotage_n_5f3eac6ec5b697824f95d434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Palin blasted Schmidt<\/a> as \u201ca piece of work\u201d and accused him and Nicolle Wallace of being \u201cyahoos\u201d and \u201cwolves in sheep\u2019s clothing\u201d who sabotaged her 2008 campaign with McCain. \u201cBut look where they are today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, those of us who were kind of victims of what they\u2019re capable of, it\u2019s kind of vindication for us,\u201d Palin added. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018See, told you so! They were never on our team to begin with.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker Carlson gives Sarah Palin an opportunity to lash out at Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace. She says there was a lot of sabotage going on there. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mw6QCmX3uH\">pic.twitter.com\/Mw6QCmX3uH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1296242504237342721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/steve-schmidt-resigns-from-the-lincoln-project-releases-statement-claiming-he-was-molested-at-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Schmidt Resigns From The Lincoln Project, Releases Statement Claiming He Was Molested At 13<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan McCain distanced herself and her family Friday from Steve Schmidt and John Weaver, both cofounders of The Lincoln Project, amid the fallout from sexual misconduct allegations against Weaver. \u201cI\u2019ve &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893381,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6662,3881,3668,4145,6661,6235],"class_list":["post-126940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-distances","tag-family","tag-from","tag-lincoln","tag-mccain","tag-meghan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}