MARCH 19, 2026
Rick Wilson – Former GOP strategist.
Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson crafted a pitch-black rebuke of President Donald Trump on his Substack Wednesday, warning the president that “misery, humiliation, and shame awaits.”
Wilson, who began his career on ex-President George H.W. Bush’s 1988 campaign and later co-founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, predicted the war against Iran would be the breaking point for Trump and his movement.
“Nothing will save you now, Donald,” Wilson wrote. “Not the war. Not the lies. Not today’s loyalists, tomorrow’s traitors. Not the terrified little men orbiting your shrinking political sun. Not the algorithms, not the oligarchs, not the endless stream of garbage Fox and Twitter propaganda pumped into the veins of a movement that’s finally, visibly, unmistakably breaking apart. You chose this.”
Wilson even brought up the i-word, which popped up numerous times in Trump’s first term.
“You’re afraid of impeachment. Of course you are,” Wilson wrote. “It’s the word that haunts you, the specter you can’t quite outrun. But impeachment is the least of your problems. What you should fear, what should keep you pacing the halls of the Residence at three in the morning, is oversight. Relentless, grinding, methodical exposure.”
Leaning into the growing chance that the Democrats will retake Congress, the political wonk continued.
“A Democratic House and Senate won’t just vote on articles of impeachment,” Wilson wrote. “They’ll open the books. They’ll drag the secrets into the light. They’ll subpoena documents, bank records, and communications. They’ll put your allies, your bagmen, your enablers, and yes, your crapulous, ******* low-tier crypto criminal family members, on the hot seat.”
Wilson asserted that the escalating fight in the Middle East will fully expose the president.
“You chose a foolish, off-the-rails war, launched in folly and haste, sold with the usual cocktail of bravado and ********, and already curdling into the kind of slow, grinding catastrophe that has buried presidencies before yours,” he wrote. “You wrapped yourself in the flag, barked about strength, and promised an easy victory. What you delivered instead was chaos.”
Trump won’t be able to wave off a highly questionable war against Iran, according to Rick Wilson.
Wilson has a dramatic way of making his point.
In a December essay, he took aim at all the redactions in the Epstein files.
“The administration wanted a lid on the pot, a lib-owning middle finger to America. Instead, they turned the heat to high and walked away,” Wilson wrote. “That’s why the black marker isn’t just ink. It’s power. It’s a new form of abuse, striking the lives and hearts of women who have suffered far, far too long.”
Courtesy/Source: HuffPost
