{"id":1468067,"date":"2022-05-08T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468067"},"modified":"2022-05-08T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:59:38","slug":"lincoln-project-co-founder-attacks-meghan-mccain-in-twitter-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-project-co-founder-attacks-meghan-mccain-in-twitter-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Project Co-Founder Attacks Meghan McCain In Twitter Meltdown"},"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\">18<\/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%2Flincoln-project-co-founder-attacks-meghan-mccain-in-twitter-meltdown%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=1468067&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1346298421.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the scandal-plagued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lincoln-project\">Lincoln Project<\/a>, unleashed a late-night Twitter attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/meghan-mccain\">Meghan McCain<\/a> Saturday, describing her as a \u201crotten person\u201d and blasting her dad for cozying up to Russian operatives in his 2008 run for president.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveSchmidtSES\/status\/1523108447088128001\">16-part thread<\/a>, the former campaign manager for Sen. John McCain unleashes on the late senator\u2019s daughter, calling her \u201cthe singularly most rotten person I have ever met.\u201d Schmidt claims the senator\u2019s presidential campaign was cleaved by two factions, including one led by Paul Manafort, who he said was in the pocket of Russian President Vladimir Putin via Moscow\u2019s ally, then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Father tolerated his campaign chairman being in business and working for Putin through His association with Yanukovych,\u201d Schmidt wrote. \u201cSAME AS TRUMP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of American corruption in Ukraine starts here. It starts in John McCain\u2019s operation, not Trump\u2019s,\u201d Schmidt added in the tweetstorm.<\/p>\n<p>The other faction in the McCain campaign, according to Schmidt, was led by John Weaver, the longtime McCain aide who co-founded The Lincoln Project and then left in disgrace amid allegations he sexually harassed more than 20 young men, many of whom worked for the PAC. Weaver, according to Schmidt, was horrified that McCain would allow Russian operatives to influence his campaign.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1adg3ll r-1ny4l3l\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n\">\n<article class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1panhkp r-1loqt21 r-18u37iz r-1ut4w64 r-1ny4l3l r-1udh08x r-1qhn6m8 r-i023vh r-o7ynqc r-6416eg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"article\" aria-labelledby=\"id__pmsyhyt0kqq id__api5gaqjs6t id__jxsghi4cn7c id__4tr9p8ys5fh id__uyt243dag5m id__4ljq6yl927d id__ywamf57if4 id__892cqglwneu id__q07a3dtju5n id__klnrfbx8eal id__9o4xtc02ujj id__j98f5c7kx5 id__mjecpupo6p id__v45obehz8kp id__u4woqo0coir id__fmo3i35xwra\" data-testid=\"tweet\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-eqz5dr r-16y2uox r-1wbh5a2\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-16y2uox r-1wbh5a2 r-1ny4l3l\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I had no interest whatsoever in running a Presidential Campaign in 2008. One of my closest friends was running John McCain\u2019s campaign and John Weaver was the chief strategist. There were two factions in the campaign. There was a pro-democracy faction and there was<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveSchmidtSES\/status\/1523108447088128001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As McCain\u2019s bid for the 2008 GOP nomination foundered, Schmidt said he was summoned to right the ship. After siding with Weaver, what Schmidt labeled \u201cthe pro-democracy faction\u201d steered McCain to the nomination, setting him up to lose to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to painting himself as the campaign\u2019s savior, Schmidt absolves himself of any blame associated with the choice of Sarah Palin as McCain\u2019s running mate. That, he blamed on Manafort, the longtime campaign operative who would later briefly serve as Donald Trump\u2019s campaign chairman in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin\u2019s guy, the one who was Victor Yanukovich\u2019s henchman was in charge of ALL of the DUE DILIGENCE around Palin,\u201d Schmidt wrote.\u201d I wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up thread, Schmidt renewed his attack on Meghan McCain by accusing her of leaking the names of her father\u2019s associates who were not invited to his funeral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\">@MeghanMcCain<\/a> I want you to know that was the greatest act of cruelty I ever experienced,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt was for all of us that you targeted. It was humiliating and shaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCain had not responded on Twitter, but the attack appears to have been sparked by her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveSchmidtSES\/status\/1523066929883205632?s=20&#038;t=wHEzrV78x340s1A7dSwdCA\">like of a Twitter reply<\/a> baselessly claiming that Schmidt had been \u201crunning a pedo racket,\u201d as well as years of bad blood.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAfter 14 years of abuse and attacks, today is the day I have decided to respond,\u201d Schmidt said in the ferocious Twitter thread.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The controversial Lincoln Project, formed by once and former Republicans to stop Donald Trump\u2019s re-election, has since broadened its opposition to Republicans across the nation, including mainstream Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. It\u00a0also made news this week when it blasted Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s leaked draft decision overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. But most of its emphasis has been on political races.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project was established in 2019 by a group of conservatives, including Weaver, Schmidt, and George Conway, husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. It raised tens of millions of dollars, but questions were raised about how it spent the money after it was revealed some $50 million went to longtime Republican operatives, including Rick Wilson and Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Scandal followed when\u00a0Weaver, \u00a0a married father of two, was accused in early 2021 of sending sexually charged messages to male teens. More than <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/21-men-accuse-weaver-of-online-harrassment\">20 men<\/a> came forward in accusing Weaver of harassing them online.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver is no longer associated with the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project, unleashed a late-night Twitter attack on Meghan McCain Saturday, describing her as a \u201crotten person\u201d and blasting her dad for cozying up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1482030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468067","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}