The Lincoln Project has released a new political ad about the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago speculating who sold out Trump to the federal agents that would necessitate the FBI rushing in with a search warrant. The ad peruses a list of potential informants, including Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, Ivanka, Eric, and Melania Trump.
The group’s co-founder Rick Wilson appeared on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon to talk about the extraordinary developments surrounding Trump and the reason behind the ad.
“We knew that Donald Trump would try to gaslight the entire country and try to psychologically destabilize the minute this raid happened,” Wilson told host John Heilemann. “We knew he would immediately start lying and they would immediately try to tell an alternate narrative of why it’s happening and why it’s really happening. And we wanted to immediately push back. And something we’re good at — which is getting inside his decision cycle and getting inside his head space and pushing back in a way that we’ve been very, very successful in the past.”
Heilemann pointed out a report by Axios that Trump allies are trying to hunt down who sold out the former president and wondered who was the person who gave information to the feds.
“I think there were a lot of stories a few weeks ago about Jared and Ivanka trying to back away from Trump and trying to start their own brand, essentially break off from Trump and pulling away from the Trump orbit,” said Wilson.
“I think Jared Kushner has a great paranoia for reasons to do with his family’s past. He doesn’t ever want to ever go to jail. I suspect that the FBI and folks have a persuasive argument there that he should talk,” he explained.
“But it could be any one of them,” he added. “Which is kind of the point we were making. And look, I could have made a longer spot than 60 and told a more complete story. But, look, they’re always like crabs in a bucket down there in Mar-a-Lago. They’re always fighting with each other. They’re always competing with each other and they’re always looking to protect themselves. So someone is protecting themselves in a pool right now.”
But the inclusion of the former first lady has set the internet abuzz.
Watch the segment below:
