Trump Lashes Out At ‘Loser’ Anti-Trump GOP Group For Attack Ad

TOPLINE

President Trump lashed out on Twitter Tuesday morning at the Lincoln Project — a group of anti-Trump Republicans — for an attack ad they made criticizing the president’s response to the coronavirus. 

KEY FACTS

Key background

The Lincoln Project is a Super PAC launched in December of last year by disaffected conservatives looking to “defeat Trump and Trumpism” in 2020, even at the expense of electing Democrats. “Electing Democrats who support the Constitution over Republicans who do not is a worthy effort.,” the group’s mission statement on its website reads. 

Crucial quote

“Our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line,” Conway, Weaver, Wilson and Steve Schmidt, another member, wrote in a New York Times op-ed announcing the formation of the PAC in December 2019. 

Tangent

In a prolonged interview with Fox News Sunday night at the Lincoln Memorial, Trump criticized the “hostile press” before pointing up at the memorial and saying that he has been treated “worse” as president than was Abraham Lincoln, who was, of course, assassinated.

Further reading

Trump slams “loser” Lincoln Project Republicans for new coronavirus attack ad (Axios)

Trump Says He’s Been Treated ‘Worse’ Than Lincoln (Forbes)

President erupts at George Conway for ‘Mourning in America’ video, about the ‘deadly virus Trump ignored’ (Washington Post)

Foiled in 2016, ‘Never Trump’ Republicans launch new super PAC in effort to oust Trump in 2020 (Washington Post)

We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated (New York Times)