RI’s Richest Man Donated $100,000 to Embattled Anti-Trump Lincoln Project
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RI’s Richest Man Donated $100,000 to Embattled Anti-Trump Lincoln Project
Currently, the Lincoln Project is locked in a series spiraling controversies. First, the organization's co-founder John Weaver was forced to resign due to his sexual harassment of men and boys.
Now, employees are demanding to be released from restrictive non-disclosure agreements in order to tell of other abuses.
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Nelson Biggest Political Donation
Nelson, who is worth $1.8 billion according to Forbes, donated $100,000 to the Lincoln Project on October 28, 2020, according to the non-profit transparency group Open Secrets.
The Lincoln Project was led primarily by Republican operatives who opposed Trump’s second term -- it was a fundraising and targeted ad machine developing hundreds of anti-Trump ads.
The New York Times reported Friday, "The crisis engulfing the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project deepened on Friday when Steve Schmidt, a co-founder, resigned abruptly from the board and former employees renewed demands to be released from nondisclosure agreements in order to provide more information about the organization’s handling of harassment allegations against another co-founder, John Weaver."
Schmidt ran the late John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008.
Jennifer Horn, another co-founder of the Lincoln Project has issued a scathing statement about the organization and its handling of the harassment allegations. "That problem is too important to ignore - that too many young people are finding themselves victims of powerful, sexual predators in the world of politics and no one is doing anything about it. These young people who reached out to me are victims, not tattle-tales. They deserve the respect of being believed and the security of being able to tell their stories without worry about losing their jobs or their reputations. Victims deserve to be – and must be - heard."
She is also in a legal dispute with The Lincoln Project.