{"id":999709,"date":"2021-11-11T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999709"},"modified":"2021-11-11T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:29:17","slug":"watch-lincoln-project-founder-slams-recklessly-stupid-neo-nazi-cosplay-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-lincoln-project-founder-slams-recklessly-stupid-neo-nazi-cosplay-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Lincoln Project Founder Slams \u2018Recklessly Stupid\u2019 Neo-Nazi Cosplay Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fwatch-lincoln-project-founder-slams-recklessly-stupid-neo-nazi-cosplay-stunt%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=999709&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\/11\/lincoln-project-bald.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div readability=\"29.223140495868\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">(Which he had absolutely nothing to do with because he&#8217;s very smart and just here for the paycheck)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\" class=\"flex-video widescreen op-interactive  lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 November 11, 2021 4:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"71.284346378018\">\n<p>The Lincoln Project&#8217;s neo-Nazi cosplay <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/terry-mcauliffe-tiki-torch-scandal\/\">stunt<\/a> in the final days of the Virginia governor&#8217;s race was &#8220;recklessly stupid&#8221; and &#8220;showed appalling judgment by the day-to-day management and leadership of the Lincoln Project,&#8221; according to Steve Schmidt, a founding member of the Lincoln Project&#8217;s leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought the action was recklessly stupid, it was dishonest and cheap,&#8221; Schmidt said during a virtual conversation with Democratic strategist Bob Shrum. &#8220;It was exactly the wrong way to approach the fight against a real fascist movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project colluded with Democratic activists to send a squad of interns dressed in white shirts and khakis to hold unlit tiki torches in the rain outside an Oct. 29 Glenn Youngkin campaign event. Journalists and members of Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe&#8217;s campaign staff amplified the disinformation campaign by promoting it on social media. A backlash ensued, prompting the McAuliffe campaign to condemn the stunt and the Lincoln Project to claim responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-deleted-tweet\/2021\/02\/12\/aaf5e036-6d7f-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> from the Lincoln Project&#8217;s board in February amid reports that the super PAC had enabled cofounder John Weaver&#8217;s predatory sexual behavior toward young men, but he is still listed on the group&#8217;s website as one of its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolnproject.us\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaders<\/a>. He claimed to have had no knowledge of the neo-Nazi cosplay stunt and downplayed his Lincoln Project affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I learned about it on the news like everybody else, and had no involvement with it,&#8221; Schmidt said, insisting he was not actively involved in the super PAC&#8217;s operations. He considered denouncing the stunt publicly but didn&#8217;t want to create a &#8220;distraction&#8221; for McAuliffe, whom he as a recently registered Democrat wholeheartedly supported.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt, a former Republican consultant whose most notable accomplishment is persuading John McCain in 2008 to select Sarah Palin as a running mate, has <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2021\/02\/lincoln-project-toxic-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> the Lincoln Project as a vehicle for &#8220;generational wealth.&#8221; It remains to be seen if wealthy liberals will continue to donate large sums of money after the super PAC humiliated itself in Virginia, which was merely its most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/biggest-losers-lincoln-themed-liberal-super-pac-goes-0-7-in-key-senate-races\/\">failed attempt<\/a> to get a Democrat elected.&nbsp;The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> has formally <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/lincoln-project-endorsement\/\">endorsed<\/a> the Lincoln Project ahead of the 2022 midterms in light of this impressive track record.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics (Which he had absolutely nothing to do with because he&#8217;s very smart and just here for the paycheck)  Andrew Stiles \u2022 November 11, 2021 4:20 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999709","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\/999709","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}