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   Scammer alert: Lincoln Project’s Disgrace   
   Last summer, donations to the Lincoln Project rolled in “by the   
   tens of millions,” as “the group tried to claim a higher moral   
   ground in an effort to purge Trump from the GOP,” recount Steve   
   Peoples and Brian Slodysko at RealClearPolitics. Yet multiple   
   sources now claim that harassment allegations against cofounder   
   John Weaver were “repeatedly raised inside the organization,   
   long before leaders acknowledged them publicly in late January.”   
   Through it all, “the group took no action against Weaver and   
   pressed forward with its high-profile work” — much of which   
   involved funneling donations to firms controlled by Lincoln   
   Project principals. The group denies all this. Still, the   
   cascading accusations “threaten the stature of not just the   
   Lincoln Project, but the broader coalition of establishment-   
   oriented Republican groups hoping to . . . excise Trump from the   
   party.”   
      
   Pandemic journal: Get Vaccinated ASAP   
   At USA Today, five members of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-   
   19 Advisory Board warn against waiting to be vaccinated: “Take   
   whatever vaccine is offered to you. Right now, all of the   
   vaccines are the ‘best.’?” ­Reports of varying effectiveness in   
   the different vaccines “miss the most important point”: that   
   they “were all 100 percent effective in the vaccine trials in   
   stopping hospitalizations and death.” Any variation in efficacy   
   rates applies only to “mild forms of COVID-19 illness,” and “we   
   don’t vaccinate to prevent a minor case of the sniffles.” Time   
   is ultimately “the most important factor” when it comes to   
   getting vaccinated, because ­every day that passes “is a day   
   where you have a higher risk of getting ­infected, becoming   
   seriously ill and dying.” So just get it done.   
      
   >From the right: Biden Smeared Capitol Police   
   What stood out most in the presentation from House impeachment   
   managers last week was the “heroism” of the Capitol Police,   
   notes The Washington Post’s Marc A. Thiessen. But President   
   Biden’s reaction ­immediately following the riot was to accuse   
   “the heroes who saved our elected representatives of bigotry,   
   saying they would have treated black protesters differently.”   
   The evidence “clearly shows that police failed to stop the mob   
   not because of the color of their skin, but because the officers   
   were overpowered.” For Biden to suggest that “the officers who   
   risked and gave their lives to defend Congress failed to ‘carry   
   out equal justice’ is a calumny.” The president promised to   
   unite the country, but “at the very moment when Americans of all   
   political stripes were united in outrage, he sought to divide   
   us.” Biden must rectify his injustice: The president “owes the   
   Capitol Police an apology.”   
      
   Union watch: Speak Out for Schools, GOP!   
   President Biden “is not going to pressure teachers unions to   
   reopen schools and get kids back into the classrooms,” sighs   
   Stephen Miller at Spectator USA, notwithstanding his campaign’s   
   “pro-science mantras.” This has led even “Biden-friendly” media   
   figures like CNN’s Jake Tapper to grumble — yet sadly,   
   Republicans are failing to seize ground, which is both bad for   
   the country and a waste of a massive political opportunity:   
   “Every Republican should be hammering this ­issue right now,   
   everywhere, on every network TV appearance and Twitter feed.   
   Fighting with the media about Donald Trump will not   
   automatically lead to midterm victories next year. Fighting for   
   parents across this country might. .?.?. Republican members of   
   Congress should be talking about nothing else. Not Donald Trump.   
   Not impeachment. Not QAnon tweets. Nothing. It is clear that   
   President Biden has abandoned the parents of schoolchildren who   
   voted for him for a little peace and quiet coming from   
   Washington, because that is who Joe Biden is and ­always has   
   been.” But as it is, the GOP is “blowing it.”   
      
   Iconoclast: The Anti-Trump Third-Party Delusion   
   Never Trumpers are the most “overrepresented” faction in the   
   national media, gripes The Week’s Matthew Walther, and now some   
   are floating the idea of a Never Trump third party. Sorry:   
   “There aren’t enough people who broadly approve of tax cuts and   
   bombing the hell out of the Middle East and opposing labor   
   unions but don’t like mean tweets to form a new political party.”   
      
   — Compiled by Ashley Allen & Sohrab Ahmari   
      
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