None of us will soon forget the complete and utter toddler-esque tantrum that Donald Trump recently pitched all over Twitter as a result of an anti-Trump ad that came from The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump PAC run by Republicans and founded in part by none other than Kellyanne Conway’s husband, George Conway.
And to make the whole matter that much more delicious for those of us on this side of the political and moral fence, a new deep-dive from Politico seems to have discovered that part of the source for the Trump-enraging ad was derived from a conversation George had with his wife… Who happens to work for and admire Donald Trump.
Speaking on the ad that got under Trump’s skin in the best sort of way, Reed Galen, who partnered on The Lincoln Project with Conway and GOP strategists Rick Wilson and John Weaver, claims that he and his fellow partners knew that they were hitting the proverbial jackpot of driving Donald Trump insane when the president began to complain about their group on his Twitter account.
Part of their master plan to get Donald’s goat came in the form of ensuring that they bought up air time on Trump’s beloved Fox News Network, where the president was guaranteed to see them.
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“He’s always gonna be watching Fox News at night in the residence,” Galen stated.
During an interview with Politico’s Tina Nguyen and Elena Schneider, Galen recollected:
It’s not just pissing off Donald Trump. Anybody could do that. It’s, to what effect? Like, why are you doing it? And the point is to take him off his game and take his campaign off their game, strategically and tactically, so that the Biden campaign and Joe Biden can have the freedom of movement and the green air to do the things that they need to do.
Politico’s report claims that the birth of the project that eventually produced the ad to drive Trump bonkers came from a conversation that founder George Conway had with his wife, Kellyanne:
Galen had co-founded the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump PAC run by Republicans, with the goal of convincing Americans to vote against him in November. In May, the group thought Trump’s response to the pandemic had created the perfect opportunity to both make their case. Off of a brainwave that cofounder George Conway had during a conversation with his wife, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, Galen and his small team guessed Trump would be particularly enraged by an in-the-moment ad that portrayed the president as making Americans ‘weaker, sicker and poorer’ than ever before.
Democratic donor Robert Wolf added that any assistance from scorned Republicans is more than welcome.
“I love seeing their stuff. Their recent ad is my pinned tweet,” he stated. “All the Democrats love watching what they’re doing, but I’m not sure yet if they are preaching to the choir or actually moving Republicans away from Trump to Biden. Either way, it’s still a net positive.”
Galen states that the midst of Trump’s weakness after his bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic felt like the perfect time to go after the president.
“We already had a plan in place which was, prosecute him, prosecute him, prosecute him,” he explained. “The difference is that he became a much weaker defendant, all on his own, because of his own faults.”
Fellow founder Rick Wilson says he’s been very satisfied with the way they have managed to anger Donald Trump.
“No other group in the space has been able, at any point, to drive Trump’s behavior as we’ve been able to do, and we think there’s an enormous value add on that,” Wilson stated.
I can only imagine that both Kellyanne and Donald Trump himself will be more than a little furious about this revelation.
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