Democrats orchestrated a viral hoax at the behest of the Lincoln Project during a Glen Younkin event. Youngkin is 8 points ahead of his democrat opponent Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia elections.
Five people dressed in Khaki's holding Tiki torches set Twitter ablaze as they stood in front of a Youngkin event trying to convince people they were supporting Youngkin.
The images of people holding tiki torches were intended to invoke a visceral response to Younkin's event, and it temporarily did. Christina Freundlich, McAuliffe spokesperson tweeted "The Unite the Right rally was one of the darkest days in the Commonwealth's history. this is who Glenn Youngkin's supporters are," Her tweet was later deleted.
The internet was quick to identify who was behind this stunt. Lauren Windsor - who describes herself as 'Agnostic. Bisexual. Fashionista. Hapless romantic. Progressive pugilist 'swamp-slayer' - took credit for organizing the stunt on Friday evening.
Camden Layton, finance director for Virginia Young Democrats.
Camden is claiming that despite the likeness in the photo, it was not him.
Colleen Wachenfeld, another Virginia Democratic employee whose background on Twitter was a picture of McAuliffe at a campaign event.
The Lincoln Project issued a statement about the event they participated in.
“Glenn Youngkin has said: ‘President Trump represents so much of why I am running.’ Youngkin proves it every day by trying to divide Virginians using racial code words like Critical Race Theory and supporting a ban on teaching the works of America’s only Black Nobel laureate.
“The Lincoln Project has run advertisements highlighting the hate unleashed in Charlottesville as well as Glenn Youngkin’s continued failure to denounce Donald Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides.’ We will continue to draw this contrast in broadcast videos, on our social media platforms, and at Youngkin rallies.
“Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it.
“The Youngkin campaign is enraged by our reminder of Charlottesville for one simple reason: Glenn Youngkin wants Virginians to forget that he is Donald Trump’s candidate.
“We will continue to hold Glenn Youngkin accountable. If he will denounce Trump’s assertion that the Charlottesville rioters possessed ‘very fine’ qualities, we’ll withdraw the tiki torches. Until then, we’ll be back.”
Despite the Claims the Lincoln Project has made regarding President Trump, Wecu has uncovered evidence that no less than 38 times Trump has denounced racism and white supremacy. Perhaps the Lincoln Project needs to print a retraction regarding their nescience on the issue.
The Lincoln Project has been plagued with serious accusations. The most serious is the accusation that the co-founder, John Weaver had texted sexually charged inappropriate messages to young men. Dangling job opportunities while propositioning the young men for sexual favors.
Media figures have referred to the Lincoln Project as grifters. "One of the most impressively successful grifts in US politics in years: a bunch of failed, washed-up, discredited GOP lifers — many responsible for some of the worst sleaze of the Bush/Cheney era — re-branded themselves as #Resistance liberals and made themselves rich off them," The Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald reacted.
Whatever the case, this super PAC has engaged in one of the most vitriolic self-aggrandizing stunts in modern history. Attempting to enrage the people in Virginia into not voting for a man who had nothing to do with the people who attended the Charlottesville rally where a young woman was killed.
If they would engage in such antics what is to say that they have not engaged in other highly charged political stunts?
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