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mucifer

(23,576 posts)
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 07:52 PM Oct 2020

Lincoln Project Claims to Be Communicating With Lots of White House People:


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Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
· 21m
The flood of intel @ProjectLincoln has received today is both remarkable and terrifying.

At the WH, the number of the infections and potential infections constitutes a national security crisis of the first order.

DM for signal.


Steve Schmidt
@SteveSchmidtSES
·
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DM for Signal. We have heard from many of you. Be safe. Stay out of the HQ. CDC recommended quarantine is 14 days. Don’t risk your life for Trump. Don’t put your family in danger. We know how much chaos there is. Do the right thing now and you will be ok after.
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Lincoln Project Claims to Be Communicating With Lots of White House People: (Original Post) mucifer Oct 2020 OP
500 or more employess work inside the WhiteHouse and they are being ghosted by beachbumbob Oct 2020 #1
They're being ghosted? Maybe I missed that in the message (serious, not snark)... Hekate Oct 2020 #3
Other reports noted that WH empl said they've received nothing re: the situation. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #10
Talk about leaving your foot soldiers behind to be overrun while the officers get the hell out... Hekate Oct 2020 #13
They haven't been told what they should be doing... TwilightZone Oct 2020 #14
Did you read the link in my post #8 below? Hekate Oct 2020 #15
Yeah, I've been keeping up with Schmidt's tweets and saw him on MSNBC. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #16
DM for signal? SergeStorms Oct 2020 #2
Direct Message for Signal.. HipChick Oct 2020 #4
Ahhhhh.... SergeStorms Oct 2020 #7
DM direct message. I don't know about the rest sorry. Maru Kitteh Oct 2020 #5
Thank you. SergeStorms Oct 2020 #6
Signal allows encrypted messages Blecht Oct 2020 #19
Last night Steve Schmidt put out a long & in-depth plea for all WH staffers to save themselves &... Hekate Oct 2020 #8
Thanks for that. Spooky. n/t Laelth Oct 2020 #9
It is very spooky. Sounds like a call to arms--only not weapons, but intelligence, strategy... Hekate Oct 2020 #11
I have no idea what "signal" is about, but I am curious. n/t Laelth Oct 2020 #12
It's a messenger app. Encrypted I believe. nt Phoenix61 Oct 2020 #18
Cool. Thank you. n/t Laelth Oct 2020 #20
K&R MustLoveBeagles Oct 2020 #17
WHERE IS MIKE PENCE? n/t AwakeAtLast Oct 2020 #21
Presumably, Pence is preparing to go on the campaign trail peggysue2 Oct 2020 #22
As a "matter of National Security" AwakeAtLast Oct 2020 #23
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
1. 500 or more employess work inside the WhiteHouse and they are being ghosted by
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 07:53 PM
Oct 2020

the whoever is left incharge. This is a disaster

Hekate

(90,858 posts)
3. They're being ghosted? Maybe I missed that in the message (serious, not snark)...
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 07:56 PM
Oct 2020

...but how do we know?

TwilightZone

(25,496 posts)
10. Other reports noted that WH empl said they've received nothing re: the situation.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 08:26 PM
Oct 2020

No e-mails, no communication, nothing about what to do or how to handle it, and so on.

Hekate

(90,858 posts)
13. Talk about leaving your foot soldiers behind to be overrun while the officers get the hell out...
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 08:31 PM
Oct 2020

...in a blaze of cowardice.

TwilightZone

(25,496 posts)
14. They haven't been told what they should be doing...
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 08:34 PM
Oct 2020

because the WH has no clue.

It's a bit shocking that the Lincoln Project has to basically intervene to calm WH employees and provide them with guidance. That pretty much sums up Trump's entire administration.

TwilightZone

(25,496 posts)
16. Yeah, I've been keeping up with Schmidt's tweets and saw him on MSNBC.
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 08:40 PM
Oct 2020

I keep shaking my head. I can't imagine what it's like for lower-level staff in the WH right now.

More victims of Donald Trump.

Hekate

(90,858 posts)
8. Last night Steve Schmidt put out a long & in-depth plea for all WH staffers to save themselves &...
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 08:05 PM
Oct 2020

...save the country by letting TLP know everything they know, promising confidentiality. This appears to be follow-up.

Someone posted it here — but damned if I can find it now. Someone else find it — please do.

FOUND IT
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214194255

Hekate

(90,858 posts)
11. It is very spooky. Sounds like a call to arms--only not weapons, but intelligence, strategy...
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 08:29 PM
Oct 2020

It’s interesting that Signal is an encrypted program — if I understood that correctly.

I get sick of people bashing Schmidt. We can learn from the past, while still focusing on the emergency we are living in NOW. And gods know it is an emergency.



peggysue2

(10,843 posts)
22. Presumably, Pence is preparing to go on the campaign trail
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 12:35 PM
Oct 2020

He should be quarantining. But this crew has been obvious in their lack of concern when it comes to others.

I've been following along on Wilson and Schmidt's twitter feed. They've openly invited WH staff members to message them privately and have ensured their anonymity. Just like the campaign staff, no one at the WH has been given any info on what to do or how to proceed. We're talking about hundreds of people, most of whom have family and their own health to consider. Not a word from the top.

This whole thing is falling apart.

Also read an anonymous comment by a member of the Secret Service who said the team is pissed. No one was given heads up. Apparently, not surprising to the team because the comment was 'he (Trump) doesn't care about any of us.'

AwakeAtLast

(14,134 posts)
23. As a "matter of National Security"
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 12:46 PM
Oct 2020

They need him to make a statement - so that other countries can see that everything is under control, even if we know it's not. Trump won't allow that to happen, though, because he is a Narcissistic Sociopath.

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