{"id":556832,"date":"2021-06-08T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556832"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:50:29","slug":"lincoln-projects-weaver-settled-300k-tax-bill-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-projects-weaver-settled-300k-tax-bill-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Project&#039;s Weaver Settled $300K Tax Bill on Election Day"},"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\">20<\/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-projects-weaver-settled-300k-tax-bill-on-election-day%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=556832&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\/06\/GetFile-389.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A disgraced founder of the Lincoln Project, John Weaver, is back in the news for having settled a $313,655.80 tax lien on Election Day of all dates.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver, the founder of the anti-Trump group who allegedly made sexual advances on a 14-year-old boy, resigned from the group earlier this year, but <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/john-weaver-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> reported that was after Weaver was released from a $313,655.80 tax lien from unpaid taxes since 2011 against his Austin, Texas, home.<\/p>\n<p>The Free Beacon reported Weaver was not the only former Lincoln Project founder to use the money he earned from Democrat, never-Trump, and dark-money donors\u00a0to settle debts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/31\/us\/politics\/john-weaver-lincoln-project-harassment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times reported<\/a> Feb. 5 on Weaver&#8217;s history of inappropriate sexual advances on young boys, and five days later Rick Wilson paid off his $200,000 mortgage 16 years ahead of schedule, according to the Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/rick-wilton-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Beacon reported<\/a> Wilson was also released from $389,420 tax lien against his Tallahassee, Florida, home in April.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project, claiming to be Republicans concerned about the party led by President Donald Trump, raised $100 million from liberal activists and &#8220;dark money,&#8221; according to the Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/lincoln-project-weaver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times exposed<\/a> the anti-Trump group&#8217;s shady finances this spring, after it spent nearly $12 million to back Democrats in seven Senate races in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats lost all seven races to Republicans, and the Free Beacon trolled the losses, writing: &#8220;In fact, Weaver&#8217;s tax settlement was one of the Lincoln Project&#8217;s most impressive achievements on Election Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even never-Trump husband of former Trump White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, George Conway, has admitted the Lincoln Project was a financial mess.<\/p>\n<p>George Conway <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gtconway3d\/status\/1368995084402913281?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted after the Times<\/a> report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;.@ProjectLincoln should shut down, absent full disclosure of its finances. As this detailed story shows, there&#8217;s simply too much money that hasn&#8217;t been accounted for, and, I fear, never will be.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Lincoln Project hired the Paul Hastings law firm to conduct a &#8220;comprehensive review,&#8221; but critics noted several of that firm&#8217;s\u00a0senior partners were actual donors to the project, an obvious conflict of interest,\u00a0according to the Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disgraced founder of the Lincoln Project, John Weaver, is back in the news for having settled a $313,655.80 tax lien on Election Day of all dates. 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