Anti-Trump Lincoln Project Directed 1/3 Of Funds To Firms Controlled By Its Leaders: Report

According to a new report, roughly one-third of funds spent since 2023 by the Lincoln Project, the PAC  founded in 2019 mostly by former Republicans to oppose the re-election of President Donald Trump, went to companies controlled by leaders of the PAC.

More than $4 million of the $12.8 million spent since this election cycle was directed to companies owned by members of its leadership, the Daily Caller reported.

Lever Communications, formerly known as Joe Trippi & Associates, collected almost $1 million. Trippi acts as a senior advisor for the Lincoln Project. Intrepid Media, the firm owned by Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, received $664,000 from the PAC, while the Lincoln Project paid Wilson’s son, Andrew, $105,750 for “corporate campaign management.”

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Summit Strategic Communications, owned by Lincoln co-founder Reed Galen, received $531,000 from the PAC;  Message Mountain Productions, owned by senior advisor Stuart Stevens, received $410,000. The Katz Watson Group, run by Lincoln Project finance director Fran Katz-Watson, received was paid $384,000,” and Veracity Reigns, owned by former senior advisor Tara Setmayer, received $372,000.

“Viking Strategies, which is run by senior advisor Trygve Olson, and Two Rivers Public Affairs, a ‘political advocacy company’ where Lincoln Project senior advisor Jeff Timmer serves as a partner, both took in hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting as well,” The Daily Caller reported.

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“Their whole schtick is ticking off Donald Trump, and that’s what they sell,” Capital Research Center Senior Investigative Researcher Ken Braun told The Daily Caller.“They’ve really come up with a unique way of weaponizing negative campaigning against their own donors, and that’s a lot easier of a thing to raise money [off of] than actually being effective. You can show your donors, ‘Look, we said this nasty thing about Donald Trump, don’t you like that? Here, give us more money!’ … I’ve got to hand it to them in a very cynical way, they’ve come up with a really effective way to raise money, without really being effective.”

Of the eight founders of the Lincoln Project, six (George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, Jennifer Horn, Mike Madrid, and Rod Steslow) have left the organization; only Wilson and Galen remain.