The Lincoln Project—an anti-Trump PAC—is again reporting stunning overhead costs compared to actual election spending. U.S. federal election records show the group, accused of being a scam PAC, has spent $11.7 million on overhead and just $437,000 on actual election spending since January 1, 2023.
High overhead spending with little actual money flowing into election activities isn’t an aberration for The Lincoln Project. The National Pulse reported the group engaged in a similar spending pattern—pouring donor money into vendors, media buyers, and consulting firms connected to the PAC’s founders—during the 2020 election. A total of around $10 million was funneled through vendors back into the pockets of The Lincoln Project‘s founders during the last presidential election cycle.
Founded in 2019 by a group of ‘Republican’ consultants who had been frozen out of work in the party because of their opposition to then-President Donald J. Trump, The Lincoln Project has consistently spent unusually high amounts of donor dollars on overhead costs compared to actual electioneering. Even more troubling, The Lincoln Project was embroiled in controversy in early 2021 after it was revealed that one of its co-founders, John Weaver, was shown to have sent inappropriate messages to young men and boys in an attempt to sexually groom them.
The National Pulse reported this past April that The Lincoln Project paid out $35,000 to hackers who had posed as vendors for the PAC and sent fraudulent invoices.
In addition, the group poured $42,000 into the far-left, anti-Trump MeidasTouch organization. MeidasTouch, a former Democrat PAC, now serves as a Democrat media platform. It hosts the likes of serial perjurer Michael Cohen and pushed the infamous “bloodbath” hoax against former President Trump.
lol…Lincoln Project has "spent $437K in the 2024 Presidential race"
(and $11.7M on overhead and other operating expenditures since January 1, 2023) https://t.co/CQYb6KJJaV pic.twitter.com/dMfgoLtZu3
— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) August 12, 2024
