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Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt called out New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Wednesday, releasing a series of private emails between the two in an extensive Twitter thread where he accuses Haberman of threatening him and covering up information pertinent to her reporting.
Schmidt, who resigned from the anti-Trump organization last year following sexual harassment allegations against co-founder John Weaver, said he decided to make the correspondence between himself and Haberman public to expose the “deep rot that afflicts so much of the American political press.”
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“Today will be my final series of tweets on Access JOURNALISM and the deep rot that afflicts so much of the American political press,” he wrote on Twitter. “There is no democracy or freedom without a free press. I will give you a glimpse of the rot by releasing a series of emails.”
“Please note a couple of things,” he continued. “(A) Haberman threatens me and then accuses me of menacing her. It’s ludicrous. (B) Haberman accuses me of threatening her with an affidavit. It’s mystifying (C) Both @TheRickWilson and I spoke to her in the referenced call.”
The emails are in response to a New York Times story surrounding the bombshell reports indicating that leadership at The Lincoln Project were aware of at least ten sexual harassment allegations against Weaver in June 2020.
Schmidt repeatedly denied having any knowledge of Weaver’s behavior, and reiterated as much in his thread on Wednesday. Instead, he accused Haberman of covering up Weaver’s behavior after having known about it for “at least three years.”
“All of the stories written about this period essentially made this point. John Weaver texted men with sexual overtures. This was an open secret at the @ProjectLincoln and ignored because dealing with it would have ended the…
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