The ad apparently infuriated the president.
“A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, ‘Morning in America’, doing everything possible to get even for all of their many failures,” Trump wrote Monday, just before midnight.
“You see, these loser types don’t care about 252 new Federal Judges, 2 great Supreme Court Justices, a rebuilt military, a protected 2nd Amendment, biggest EVER Tax & Regulation cuts, and much more,” the president continued.
Trump went on to assert that he “didn’t use any” of the group’s founders or affiliated advisers in his own presidential campaigns “because they don’t know how to win,” and argued that “their so-called Lincoln Project is a disgrace to Honest Abe.”
“I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad,” Trump wrote of George Conway.
Trump similarly targeted political strategists John Weaver, who the president said “lost big” advising then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s 2016 White House bid; “Crazed” Rick Wilson, who “lost for Evan ‘McMuffin’ McMullin,” a 2016 independent presidential candidate; and Steve Schmidt and Reed Galen, who both advised former Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The president also homed in on Jennifer Horn, a former New Hampshire GOP chair and two-time congressional candidate, who, Trump wrote, was “thrown out” of the state’s Republican Party.
“They’re all LOSERS, but Abe Lincoln, Republican, is all smiles!” Trump concluded.
The president tore into the group again Tuesday in remarks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, calling George Conway a “stone-cold loser” and boasting that “every one of them I either defeated or they lost by themselves.”
“They should not call it The Lincoln Project. It’s not fair to Abraham Lincoln, a great president,” Trump said. “They should call it the losers project.”
Meanwhile, The Lincoln Project’s leaders gleefully embraced the president’s inadvertent promotion of their ad, sharing social media posts mocking Trump from early Tuesday morning into the afternoon.
“I guess we know what keeps the president of the United States up at night. It isn’t the Americans who are dying once every 45 seconds of covid-19,” George Conway tweeted.
“Just to be clear, we at @ProjectLincoln won’t be intimidated,” added Weaver. “We are proud to partner with our Constitution loving friends on the Democratic side as we help build the Army of the Decent to route @realDonaldTrump & his enablers in the GOP.”
Source: politico.com
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