Breitbart News reported Wednesday, Feb. 3, that several influential left-wing first-tier male stars, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Sam Elliott and Martin Sheen, all campaigned in last year’s election for the anti-Trump The Lincoln Project is a political action committee.
The Lincoln Project is a political action committee established by several influential Republicans and former Republicans in late 2019. The Lincoln Project aims to stop Trump from being re-elected in the 2020 election. The Lincoln Project announced its support for Biden in April 2020 after Joe Biden became the Democratic nominee-in-waiting. The Lincoln Project announced that the project’s mission was completed at 11:26 a.m. local Time on Nov. 7, 2020.
Attorney George Conway, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, began as an anti-Trump celebrity in 2018, and his wife, Kellyanne Conway, worked for Trump from 2016 to 2020.
Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the Lincoln Project and longtime Republican strategist, is registering as a Democrat after nearly 30 years in the Republican Party.
John Weaver, Lincoln Project co-founder and U.S. political consultant, known for his work on John McCain’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns.
Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, is an American political strategist, media consultant and author. A former member of the Republican Party, he has produced television political ads for governors, U.S. Senate candidates, super PACs and corporations.
Jennifer Horn, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, Republican and Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.
Ron Steslow, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and political strategist who hosts The Lincoln Project podcast.
Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, independent political strategist, author and campaign veteran.
Mike Madrid, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, Republican political consultant specializing in Latino voting trends/analysis.
Founded by anti-Trump Republicans, The Lincoln Project has attracted the support of high-profile Democrats who share a common goal between them to elect Trump down.
George Conway, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, often criticized Trump when his wife, Kellyanne Conway, was an adviser to President Trump, gathering the support of many left-wing celebrities. For example, on Sept. 11, 2020, Conway declared Trump “the greatest threat to the safety and security of Americans.
But now the Lincoln Project is facing unprecedented criticism and skepticism as another Lincoln Project co-founder, John Weaver, faces allegations from 21 men that Weaver sent them pornographic messages and, in some cases, engaged in sex trafficking. One plaintiff said he began receiving messages from Weaver as a teenager.
The constant anti-Trump rhetoric spewed by the founder and supporters of the Lincoln Project continues to appeal to influential progressive figures. While some of Hollywood’s most prominent figures and most influential executives have donated large sums of money to the Lincoln Project, other stars have used their voices to endorse political ads for the four-faced group, including some of Hollywood’s best-known actors.
Harrison Ford, star of “Indiana Jones
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill
Tombstone actor Sam Elliott
Martin Sheen, who played President Joshua Butler in “The West Wing
On the day before the 2020 presidential election, the Lincoln Project released an ad featuring Harrison Ford, who praised Dr. Anthony Fauci for his “tireless, honorable and selfless service to the American people. The ad also features Trump supporters shouting, “Remove Fauci,” with Trump putting his finger in front of his mouth and asking for secrecy, “Don’t tell anyone [we’re removing Fauci], wait a little while after the election.”
Finally a picture of Trump and Fauci appeared at the same time, at which time Ford said in a voiceover, “Tomorrow, you can only fire one of them. The choice is yours.”
Actor Mark Hamill of “The Ultimate No Access Zone (Corvette Summer)” also voiced an ad for the Lincoln Project that focused on opposing the rule advocated by Trump that mail-in ballots received after Election Day cannot be counted.
“If Trump’s wishes were to come to fruition, many of the people who voted with absentee ballots, their votes would not count,” Hamill says in the ad, “which would deny thousands of soldiers serving overseas their most sacred right to vote, denying the men and women in our military the service and sacrifice they have used to defend freedom.” The nearly two-minute ad can be seen on TVs in every Home and on oversized screens in downtown.
Sam Elliott, who also joined the Lincoln Project ad last October, narrates the ad that talks about the bond between father and son and disparages the Trump regime’s response to the Chinese coronavirus.
Elliott’s low voice says in the ad, “Our fathers weren’t perfect, but they did their best to make us better, more honorable, men of Family and faith, but most importantly, they taught us to face ourselves when we did something wrong.” He concludes the ad by urging people to “vote for Biden.
On Election Day, the Lincoln Project also released another ad narrated by Martin Sheen.
“Good morning. Today is the first day of the rest of America’s Life. This is the day that will somehow change the way this country feels about itself. One last push to get the train back on track,” Martin Sheen says in the ad.
“This day can’t erase the last nine months or the last four years, but it can clear the way for a thousand more better days ahead. This is a day when America walks on a tightrope. This is a day when the world is watching America,” he said, urging Americans to “come on.
“This is the day that will unfold before our eyes, hour after hour, ballot after ballot, history on the shoulders of this day. This is the day that will change our lives forever. That day is November 3, 2020 in America. We finally have that day,” the actor, who stars in “Badlands,” said.
The Lincoln Project played innocent to Weaver’s accusations, arguing that Weaver “led a secret life based on deception on every level” and describing him as a “predator, liar and abuser.
“Our deepest sympathies go out to those targeted by Weaver’s abhorrent and predatory behavior,” the Lincoln Project said in a statement. “Weaver’s deception is beyond anything any of us could imagine, and we are shocked and sickened by it. Like many others, we have been betrayed and deceived by John Weaver. John Weaver will not now appear before any member of the Lincoln Project, and we are truly grateful for that.”
In a remarkable move, political consultant Ryan James Girdusky called the Lincoln Project’s statement “an absolute lie.”
George Conway, another co-founder of the Lincoln Project, denied knowing Weaver well, knowing that the two co-founded the Lincoln Project and co-wrote the Op-ed in December 2019.
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