File this under dirty
and potentially lethal tricks.
Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson woke up at 3:00 AM one day last week to a SWAT team pounding on his door.
Apparently someone -- Wilson
calls the perpetrator a “MAGA terrorist” -- called 911, claiming that there had been a murder at his home. I’m not sure where Wilson lives, but under the circumstances I don’t
think I’d disclose it if I knew.
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And this wasn’t the first time some idiot pulled this illegal and dangerous prank on Wilson. His theory is that the perpetrators hope he will
pop out of bed in a panic (which he does) thinking his home is under attack and run outside with a weapon, where waiting SWAT forces would shoot him dead.
Any rational person realizes
how deranged such a stunt is. And it's been going on since 2015, Wilson reports. You would think the SWAT folks would know by now when they get a call like this for the Wilson home to perhaps
give Rick a jingle first (annoying as that would be at 3 in the morning) to see if anyone has been murdered in his home recently.
I guess the SWATers feel like they can’t take any chances.
One of things about these pranks that amazes Wilson is “MAGA’s drive to involve law enforcement in these swatting calls. Isn’t
this supposed to be the 'party of law and order'?" He doesn’t get why "MAGA would want to make a mockery of these agencies they claim to love and drag an entire unit out on a stormy night to
handle a fake call. It’s hypocritical and disgusting. But hey, that’s just MAGA."
As to the fact that such stunts are potentially lethal, Wilson says he isn’t shocked. "Their dear leader
calls for violence all the time. He regularly quotes and pays homage to dictators. A third of his base believes it’s totally fine and normal to resort to violence to resolve political
disagreement."
And despite the annoyance and potential danger to him and his family, Wilson isn’t going to let up doing all he can do to — legally
(unlike his MAGA harassers) — to prevent Donald Trump from winning the 2024 presidential race.
“With less than ten months to go, we can’t take our foot off the gas,” he
says. “I’m not stopping and neither are any of us at The Lincoln Project,” which was MediaPost’s 2020 Creative Agency Of The Year.