Trump Attempts to "Distance" Himself from Project 2025

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Trump attempts to distance himself from Project 2025
Donald Trump is attempting to distance himself from Project 2025, a political roadmap created by conservatives for a potential second term of Trump.

The project, which is led by the Heritage Foundation, seeks to crack down on various issues including immigration, reproductive rights, environmental protections and LGBTQ+ rights. It also aims to replace federal employees with Trump loyalists across the government.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.


In response to Trump’s post, several critics were quick to point out that it appears unlikely that Trump is unaware of Project 2025, given that many individuals involved in the project are close to Trump.

“Many people involved in Project 2025 are close to Trump world & have served in his previous admin,” CNN’s Alayna Treene said.

Meanwhile, economist Robert Reich wrote, “Don’t be fooled. The playbook is written by more than 20 officials Trump appointed in his first term. It is the clearest vision we have of a 2nd Trump presidency.”

Last week, Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign launched a new website landing page in attempts to underscore the threat of Project 2025. The launch came in response to the blueprint of policy proposals that could dismantle and disrupt the US government.

The page said: “Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump’s Maga Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office if he wins… Trump’s campaign advisors and close allies wrote it – and are doing everything they can to elect him so he can execute their playbook immediately.”

https://www.project2025.org/

 

[Dead2009]

You can be unaware of something and still have people close to you running a super group. Question for Democrats, how many of them "didnt know" that their own political party conspired to keep Bernie Sanders out of the 2016 Democratic nomination because they didnt want him and wanted Hilary?

 

[Webster]

Question for Democrats, how many of them "didnt know" that their own political party conspired to keep Bernie Sanders out of the 2016 Democratic nomination because they didnt want him and wanted Hilary?

A shit-ton of them.

 

[MrDawn]

I don't think I like Project 2025. It smells a lot like a plan for an authoritarian regime.

 

[Webster]

I don't think I like Project 2025. It smells a lot like a plan for an authoritarian regime.

I think you're reading way too much into it; like a lot of policy proposals, there's good things in it, not-so-good things and some bad things in it.

 

[Webster]

My question to the Guardian is simple: have y'all even read the damn thing?

(The Guardian) Donald Trump is seeking to distance himself from the rightwing Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a lengthy document the group has created as a playbook for the next Republican presidential administration. But Trump’s ties to Project 2025 run deep, and the playbook largely matches his agenda, Rachel Leingang reports: Donald Trump’s attempt to distance himself from Project 2025 after extreme comments from one of its leaders falls flat given the extensive Trump ties and similarities between the project’s policy ideas and the former president’s platform.

On Truth Social last week, Trump claimed to “know nothing about Project 2025” and have “no idea who is behind it”. The disavowal from Trump came after Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, said: “We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be.”

Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation effort to align the conservative movement behind policies that an incoming rightwing president should undertake. The far-reaching plan, which would upend the way the federal government operates, includes a lengthy manifesto and recruitment of potential staffers for a second Trump administration.

Trump’s comments show that an alignment with the project could hurt him with key voters and that he doesn’t appreciate being seen as someone who could be controlled by an outside group. But, in reality, Trump and Project 2025 share the same vision for where the US should go in a conservative presidency. His platform, dubbed Agenda 47, overlaps with Project 2025 on most major policy issues. Project 2025 often includes more details on how some key conservative goals could be carried out, offering the meat for Trumpian policy ideas often delivered as soundbites.

 

[MrDawn]

CNN just posted this.