U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks to the media as U.S. President Donald Trump listens in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Lincoln Project co-founder and former Republican strategist Rick Wilson penned a Thursday column alleging that the downfall of the American republic will come at the hands of damned souls he described as a cancer. Then he named names of those propping up President Donald Trump.
Wilson began by saying that if someone truly wants to understand how the country is destroyed, they must look beyond the "fringes of MAGA screeching on Twitter" and instead look directly into the bottomless black wells where conscience was long ago replaced with corruption and greed.
He began with the "criminals at the Department of Justice."
"The sneering Todd Blanche, Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal sugar daddy. The grinning, soulless she-demon Pamela Jo Bondi, reveling in the agony of the Epstein victims. The drunken dwarf Kash Patel, using the big boy helper steps to board his taxpayer-funded jet to party with hockey players or to visit his girlfriend," Wilson said.
Patel, he argued, is nothing more than a "'Deep State' pod-bro conspiracist now sitting on a booster cushion in J. Edgar Hoover’s chair." Former Fox News host and close Trump ally Jeanine Pirro, who took over the Washington, D.C. district attorney's office is actually "the Franzia-soaked harpy, shrieking performative vengeance." Meanwhile, Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff is "the silent enabler" of "criminal mastermind Donald Trump."
These are the names he wants said loudly and often, for they are the bright white spot shining "on the MRI of Washington power where the cancer grows." The cancer doesn't merely metastasize, he said, but consumes and expands everything it touches, corrupting it. He also acknowledged that they come along with "a collection of lesser enablers," all of whom make up the "cancer at the heart of our democracy."
One example Wilson gave is Trump's "cash-and-carry pardon sales, his rampant theft and his commitment to protecting himself and his allies." Were we living in a normal life, they'd be marched off to prison, or as Wilson preferred, "the gibbet."
He wants them to spend the rest of their lives fighting legal battles and investigations while being "treated as the criminals and conspirators they most certainly are. No law firm should hire them, lest they be excluded from any and all government contracts (I was toldthat’s perfectly normal!)."
He also wants prosecutions that involve jail time, explaining that the only way to stop the level of corruption is to stop letting people get away with it.
"We must send people to jail. Not out of spite, but out of necessity.," Wilson said.