Author and journalist Ryan Girdusky on Tuesday said that various statements released by The Lincoln Project since news broke of sexual harassment allegations against the anti-Trump group’s co-founder, John Weaver, reveal a “lot of inconsistencies” on when the organization’s leaders first knew about the accusations.
In an interview on Hill.TV’s “Rising,” Girdusky, who was one of the first journalists to report on the allegations last month, said that while the group said in a statement that it was previously unaware of the allegations, leaders allegedly knew that he was working on the story as early as last July.
Weaver has been accused over the past month of sending unsolicited sexual messages to numerous young men, including to a 14-year-old.
Leaders of The Lincoln Project told The New York Times late last month that they were only made aware of the allegations against Weaver once they began circulating on social media and in news reports.
Girdusky, however, said the group “refused to comment on my article, they refused to acknowledge the allegation I threw that [Weaver] was a predator, and they waited until Jan. 15 when the Axios story came out and where they said, ‘Oh no he’s just gay and everything was consensual.’”
“And it wasn’t until the Jan. 31 story that they sat there and changed their story again to … say that they were completely blindly unaware,” Girdusky continued. “They’ve changed their story about six or seven times now that every new allegation comes.”
Watch part of Girdusky’s interview above.
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