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Lying liar trump claims he knows nothing about Project 2025 even though it was written by many people in his administration.
"Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Foundation think tank and runs for nearly 900 pages. Spearheaded by former Trump administration officials, it calls for the sacking of thousands of civil servants, expanding the power of the president, dismantling the Department of Education, sweeping tax cuts, a ban on pornography, halting sales of the abortion pill, and a whole lot more...
The conservative Heritage Foundation has been producing policy blueprints for future Republican administrations since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. The current Project 2025 report was unveiled in April 2023. Many of the proposals would likely face immediate legal challenges if implemented...
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump posted on his social media website, Truth Social. “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.”
But the project is chock full of former Trump advisers, including director Paul Dans, who was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management while Trump was president. Russell Vought, another former Trump administration official, wrote a key chapter in the document and also serves as the Republican National Committee’s 2024 platform policy director...
In early July, Heritage president Kevin Roberts further stoked the ire around Project 25 by raising the prospect of political violence during a podcast interview.
“We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Mr Roberts told the War Room podcast, founded by Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
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"Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Foundation think tank and runs for nearly 900 pages. Spearheaded by former Trump administration officials, it calls for the sacking of thousands of civil servants, expanding the power of the president, dismantling the Department of Education, sweeping tax cuts, a ban on pornography, halting sales of the abortion pill, and a whole lot more...
The conservative Heritage Foundation has been producing policy blueprints for future Republican administrations since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. The current Project 2025 report was unveiled in April 2023. Many of the proposals would likely face immediate legal challenges if implemented...
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump posted on his social media website, Truth Social. “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.”
But the project is chock full of former Trump advisers, including director Paul Dans, who was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management while Trump was president. Russell Vought, another former Trump administration official, wrote a key chapter in the document and also serves as the Republican National Committee’s 2024 platform policy director...
In early July, Heritage president Kevin Roberts further stoked the ire around Project 25 by raising the prospect of political violence during a podcast interview.
“We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Mr Roberts told the War Room podcast, founded by Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
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What is Project 2025? Wish list for a Trump presidency, explained
A think-tank with ties to Trump has set out a vision for Republicans. But the former president has tried to distance himself from it.
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