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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s win is bad news for The Lincoln Project, a collection of faux-conservative grifters who cashed in on the resistance only to be exposed as some of the “most useless people in America” by voters.

The scandal-soaked group churned out ads smearing Trump and boosting failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, burning through millions of dollars in donor money that was funneled back to companies owned by its founding members.

The Lincoln Project “paid around $7 million to consulting firms led by senior Lincoln Project operatives,” according to the Washington Examiner which cited Federal Election Commission records.

Described by Esquire as “the most useless people in America” after the election, the outlet noted that the group “reeked of grift from the start.”

The Lincoln Project spent $16.2 million this year after raising $15.5 million and came out of the election cycle with over “$630,000 in unpaid invoices, largely in connection to limited liability corporations tied to Lincoln Project personnel,” according to records.

The Lincoln Project was founded in 2019 by a gaggle of former GOP strategists led by John Weaver who left after he was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 young men, including at least one who was underaged. Also among the co-founders are shameless operative Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, and Trump-obsessed lawyer George Conway who had the good sense to get out early.

“A group of people pretending to be conservatives 10 years ago set up a grift operation mostly funded by lifelong Democrats in order to attack conservatives,” said executive director of the conservative Center for Renewing America Wade Miller.

“If you blindly looked at their public communications, you’d think they were Black Lives Matter,”  Miller added.

The Examiner reviewed the federal records and broke down the grift.

The group paid $2.1 to senior adviser Joe Trippi’s Lever Communications media firm, $1.5 million to Third Act Media which lists LP creative adviser Ben Howe as a staff member, and $934,000 to Wilson’s Intrepid Media for “political strategy consulting,” “strategic consulting,” “equipment,” and “travel,” according to records cited by the outlet.

Co-founder Reed Galen’s Summit Strategic scored $758,500 and Stuart Stevens’s Message Mountain was paid $535,000 for “political strategy consulting,” the Examiner reported.

Lincoln Project adviser Tara Setmayer’s firm Veracity Reigns was paid $392,000. Senior adviser Trygve Olseon’s Viking Strategies received $435,000, and adviser  Jeff Timmer’s Two Rivers Public Affairs got $387,000.

Trump may have won the election but that doesn’t mean that the grifters aren’t going to try to wring every last dime out of gullible donors and is now running ads smearing the incoming president’s nominees.

“The GOP is already reaping what they’ve sown. The disorder and ineptitude of these appointments, and the administration itself, is a stain Republicans will wear long after Trump and his lackeys are gone,” the faux conservatives said in a post to X.

“One easy path to financial security seems to be to carry water for the Dengist communists on the Left if you are willing to cast aside your dignity and honor for it,” Miller said of the group and its members.

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