The Lincoln Project, Part 1

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Lincoln Project launched in late 2019 with an op-ed in The New York Times under a headline that made the group’s identity and intentions clear: “We are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated.” Since then, the group has established itself as a leading force in the fight against Trumpism, becoming a household name in the process. Led by an array of lapsed Republican operatives including Heilemann’s guests this week, Jennifer Horn and Rick Wilson, the Lincolners have raised tens of millions of dollars, cranked out a stream of memorable ads and viral videos, and waged a devilish campaign to get inside Trump’s head. In this two-part episode, Heilemann talks with Horn and Wilson about Trump’s role in one of most terrible weeks in modern American political history, in which the US Capitol was stormed by far-right insurrectionists; the move to impeach him for a second time or remove him from office via the 25th Amendment; his banishment from Twitter (news that broke while the episode was being recorded); and the clear and present danger he poses to the country in final days as president. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, John Heilman here and welcome to Hell in High Water. My podcast from the
0:14.6	recount and I Heart Radio with big ups to the one and only Rizza for our dope theme music.
0:20.9	For anyone who believed that we had hit bottom with Donald Trump or that the edge of our
0:25.4	McGueddon vibes of 2020 were behind us as we sailed into 2021. The past 10 days have
0:31.4	been a bracing corrective or a howling wake up call or a punch in the gut and a kick in
0:37.0	the balls and an ominous and frankly terrifying portent that even more divisive and destructive
0:42.1	times may be yet to come. To talk through the attempted coup staged by Donald Trump and
0:46.7	his Republican abet horrors, the deadly horror show of riotous insurrection that played
0:51.4	out last week in Washington DC from the White House to the US Capitol and what might happen
0:56.6	in the final days in office of a wildly delusional, utterly demented, profoundly damaged and deeply
1:01.7	dangerous sitting president of these United States. We rang our friends at an organization
1:06.9	you might have heard a few things about the Lincoln Project and asked them to send
1:11.3	over a couple of their co-founders to join us on the pod. And voila, here they are.
1:17.8	The first former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party and former co-chair of the New
1:20.9	Hampshire Law Cabin Republicans and two time Republican Congressional candidate Jennifer
1:25.4	Horn.
1:26.6	The state of the Republican Party is destroyed. The party after what happened on Wednesday
1:33.1	at the Capitol has lost all integrity, all character, it has lost its foundation, it
1:39.2	has lost its ability to advocate for anything meaningful and what's worse, it has become
1:45.5	a part of the effort to destroy democracy as we know it in America.
1:50.8	And second, longtime Republican political strategist, notorious negative admaker, daily
1:55.3	beast editor at large and author of the entirely aptly titled bestselling book, Everything
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