The Lincoln Project is facing intense backlash and potentially major legal troubles after the controversial anti-Trump group tweeted screenshots of private messages from one of its co-founders – but Twitter doesn’t seem to mind.
Jennifer Horn, who left the Lincoln Project last week amid the John Weaver scandal, has had a public feud with the anti-Trump group since her departure. But the Lincoln Project escalated tensions on Thursday night with tweets that appeared to be an exchange she had with 19th News correspondent Amanda Becker.
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Lincoln Project co-founders Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, George Conway and John Weaver.
“Earlier tonight we became aware that @ 19thnews’ @AmandaBecker was preparing to publish a defamatory work on the Lincoln Project with the help of @NHJennifer,” the Lincoln Project began a long thread. “You hear a lot of talk about hit jobs in journalism, but you rarely get to see their origin story. Enjoy it.”
The tweets were immediately condemned, including by one of the co-founders, conservative lawyer George Conway.
“This appears to be a violation of federal law and should be removed immediately,” warned Conway – who left the group last year.
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Horn herself later responded to the controversy, warning Twitter that the Lincoln Project was denied permission to publish its private messages. “Hey @Twitter @jack @TwitterSupport I have not consented,” Horn wrote.
It is unclear how the Lincoln Project obtained screenshots of Horn’s private messages or, if so, how the group got access to Horn’s Twitter account. The messages were eventually deleted.
The Lincoln Project did not respond to Fox News’s multiple questions, including why it chose to delete the Twitter thread and its responses to Horn and Conway’s responses.
Twitter stated that the tweets were fine as far as the social media platform is concerned.
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The tweets referenced are currently not inconsistent with the Twitter Rules, A spokesman told Fox News, noting that the tweets are not considered a violation of Twitter hacked materials policy and they don’t conflict with it privacy policy
While Twitter appears to have sided with the anti-Trump group, the decision brings back memories of the social media platform’s controversial decision to censor a damning story about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election, when the company called the same ‘hacked content’ policy. as the cause of the blackout.