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In einer Stellungnahme erklärt John Weaver: "For too long I have tried to live a life that wasn’t completely true, where I cleaved off an important part of myself in order to maintain what I thought was happiness and normalcy in the other part. I was lying to myself, to my family who gave me nothing but unconditional love, and to others, causing a great deal of pain to all. The truth is that I’m gay. And that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place. To the men I made uncomfortable through my messages that I viewed as consensual mutual conversations at the time: I am truly sorry. They were inappropriate and it was because of my failings that this discomfort was brought on you."
Die Anschuldigungen kamen über die vergangenen Tage an die Öffentlichkeit. Dabei soll Weaver den Männern offenbar sexuell anzügliche Nachrichten geschrieben haben, teils in Verbindung mit Jobangeboten oder der Chance einer politischen Karriere.
Das Lincoln Project stellte sich von Anfang an gegen Donald Trumps politische Karriere und kritisierte den Präsidenten selbst während dem Wahlkampf jeweils scharf - und dies, obwohl Trump selber Republikaner ist, wie die Mitglieder dieser Organisation.