Confederate Coolers and Grifters: ABC Promotes Anti-Trump Lincoln Project

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 2, 2020
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In a segment sponsored by an anti-Trump political ad from Americans for Limited Government, ABC’s This Week spent a portion of Sunday’s show swooning for the anti-Trump/pro-Biden political group The Lincoln Project. Celebrating how they and other former Republicans were “waging war against the President of their own party,” fill-in host Martha Raddatz and chief congressional correspondent Mary Bruce were beaming as they discussed how it helped the Biden campaign.

Of course, there was no mention of The Lincoln Project’s controversies like a certain Confederate cooler, their grifter co-founders, and ties to Russia.

After teeing herself up with a soundbite of Dr. Jill Biden (PhD.) dubiously claiming she’s spoken to “a lot” of Republicans who were secretly going to vote for her husband, Raddatz cheered how “Several Republican groups are hoping for the same, waging war against the President of their own party.”

Bruce kicked off her report with a soundbite from a Lincoln Project ad. “Blistering ads targeting President Trump but not by Democrats but from a group of Republicans intent on taking down the leader of their party. Many using the President's own words against him,” she boasted.

Her report was flush with soundbites from an interview she did with Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen.

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