
John Weaver, one co-founder of The Lincoln Project Super PAC, signed a deal in 2019 with a Russian state-owned company to advocate for its interests — but ultimately rejected the contract once he was accused of hypocrisy for his years of calling President Donald Trump a pawn of Vladimir Putin.
Weaver, a career political consultant who started The Lincoln Project to defeat President
Donald Trump’s reelection bid, signed an agreement on May 10, 2019 with Tenam
Corporation, “a subsidiary of Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy
company,” Politico reported at the time.
According to the contract, which Weaver was required to file with
the Department of Justice because he was acting as a foreign agent,
he was tasked with lobbying the Trump administration and Congress
on “sanctions or other restrictions in the area of atomic (nuclear)
trade, or cooperation involving in any way the Russian Federation.”
The Russian government-owned company was to pay Weaver
$350,000 “plus expenses” for six months of work. If Russia wanted
to continue utilizing Weaver beyond that term, Tenam was required
to pay him $40,000 a month, according to the agreement.
The contract stipulated that if Trump signed a bill imposing
sanctions on Russia, Weaver could be fired.
Just three years earlier, Weaver wanted “sanctions from Hell”
placed on Russia.
That needed to be done to Putin “so that he and his KGB cronies can’t move their stolen money around
In an interview with Politico, Tenam President Fletcher Newton would not say who recommended
“I’m rejecting the contract,” he told CNBC reporter Brian Schwartz.
“My only focus is the replace[ment] of Donald Trump as ‘president’ and his low traveling minions,”
Weaver, a former consultant for John McCain and John Kasich’s presidential campaigns, now wants
Weaver recently told NPR his group’s strategy was to give Joe Biden’s campaign breathing room to be
The Lincoln Project bought airtime on Fox News in Washington, D.C., theorizing Trump would see
“When we were able to buy time in Washington on one of the president’s favorite propaganda shows
Weaver said the group is raising money to be spent on “positive ads about Vice President Biden” in
While the Lincoln Project has become one of the most infamous political groups in this year’s election
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