.MaddowBlog: The Lincoln Project has gotten Pres. Trump's attention
There's ample evidence that Donald Trump is very popular among Republicans, but the president's support within his party is not universal. There's still a sliver of GOP voices who not only recoil in response to Trump's many failures and abuses, they also take great offense to what he's done to their party.
With this in mind, the Lincoln Project took shape late last year, led by a group of prominent Republican critics of the incumbent president, including George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, Jennifer Horn, and Rick Wilson. They're all lifelong GOP insiders, who bring a degree of credibility to the broader effort to rescue the GOP from Trump and his enablers.yesterday, which was quite brutal.
"There's mourning in America. Today, more than 60,000 Americans have died from a deadly virus Donald Trump ignored. With the economy in shambles, more than 26 million Americans are out of work -- the worst economy in decades. Trump bailed out Wall Street, but not Main Street. This afternoon, millions of Americans will apply for unemployment. And with their savings run out, many are giving up hope. Millions worry that a loved one won't survive COVID-19.
Evidently, the video crossed the president's radar. In fact, at nearly 1 a.m. this morning, Trump publishedlashing out at the Lincoln Project's leaders as"losers." He took particular aim at George Conway, who's married to White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, writing,"I don't know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad.
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