Donald Trump allies’ Project 2025 comments resurface after he denies role

https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-1921824

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  1. Is there anyone at all who thinks he actually has read a 900 page document of any kind?

  2. Project 2025….share it with as many people as you can.

    If they need it presented in more entertaining way, here’s John Oliver’s show segment on it. Almost 7 million people have watched it already:

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s)

  4. People who dismiss it are the ones who haven’t read their plans. We need to be educated on it so we can speak to it. Especially when combatting the people who wish to tell you it’s nonsense and will never happen. Unfortunately, there are many and they get unnecessarily angry and rude about it too. Go figure.

  6. The whole plan is based on him winning this election. Of course he is in the loop about it.

  12. If he doesn’t know anything about it, then he is just a pawn in their plans. Not the strong powerful leader that he claims to be.

  13. Trump is a sadistic monster. I will have a clean conscience by not voting for him.

  15. There are 312 mentions of “Trump” in the mandate. Many of these mentions are direct associations. This post is a list of those associations;

    Jonathon Berry- Chief Counsel for the Trump transition team. Author of the Mandate

    Adam Candeub- Acting Secretary of Commerce, Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Trump DOJ. Author of the Mandate

    Ken Cuccinelli- Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security for the Trump administration. Author of the Mandate.

    Rick Dearborn- Deputy chief of staff in charge of 5 departments of the Executive Office of President Trump. Also on the 2016 Trump transition team. Author of the Mandate.

    Thomas Gilman- Assistant Secretary of Commerce and CFO of the US Department of Commerce in the Trump administration. Author of the Mandate

    Mandy Gunasekara- Chief of Staff at the US EPA, Principal Deputy Assistant Office of Air and Radiation in the Trump administration. Author of the Mandate

    Dennis Kirk- Senior positions in Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, nominated directly by Trump to be Chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Author of the Mandate

    Christopher Miller- Acting US Secretary of Defense, Director of National Counterterrorism, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combatting Terrorism. Senior Director for Counterterrorism and Transnational Threats at the National Security Council. All at the Trump administration. Author of the Mandate

    Mora Namdar- Senior Advisor at the US State Department appointed by Trump at Consular Affairs. Vice President of Legal, Compliance, and Risk at the US Agency for Global Media. Author of the Mandate

    Peter Navarro- Trade czar, Director Office of Trade and Manufacturing, Defense Production act coordinator, Author of the Mandate

    William Pendleton- Leader of the BLM. Author of the Mandate

    Brooks Tucker- Trump transition team, Senior Policy Dvisor for National Security and Veteran’s Affairs. Author of the Mandate

    Hans Spakovsky- Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Author of the Mandate

    Russ Vought- Cabinet position as Director of Office and Management and Budget at the Trump administration. Author of the Mandate

    William Walton- Trump transition team, Agency Action Leader for all federal economic agencies. Author of the Mandate

    Paul Winfree- Trump transition team. Deputy assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Domestic Policy Council, and Director of Budget Policy. Author of the Mandate

    Paul Dans- Trump administration Chief of Staff at US Office of Personnel Management. Senior Advisor, US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Editor of the Mandate

    Steven Groves- served in the Trump administration as Chief of Staff to Ambasador, Assistand Special Counsel. White House Deputy Press Secretary. Editor of the Mandate

    https://www.reddit.com/r/politicus/s/hT4F2iUcF4

    https://www.project2025.org/

  16. The “Mandate for Leadership” is a set of policy proposals authored by the Heritage Foundation, an influential ultra conservative think tank. Project 2025 is a revision to that agenda tailored to a second Trump term. It would give the President unilateral powers, strip civil rights, worker protections, climate regulation, add religion into policy, outlaw “porn” and much more. The MFL has been around since 1980, Reagan implemented 60% of it’s recommendations, Trump 64% – proof. 70 Heritage Foundation alumni served in his administration or transition team. Project 2025 is quite extreme but with his obsession for revenge he’ll likely get past 2/3rd’s adoption.

    The Heritage Foundation already writes bills for Republicans to submit. That’s how there have been over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills submitted to states since January 1st, 2024. They’re the ones writing these bills and getting the GOP to pass them. They were also the ones who wrote Texas’s pornography ID law that was passed. They have been behind abortion, contraception, and anti-drug laws, too. And Harrison Butker? They were the ones who sponsored him up on stage as Butker works with them frequently. And let’s not also forget that The Heritage Foundation has frequent confrences that showers GOP politicians with lavish gifts while teaching them how to create right-wing propaganda and craft bills against LGBTQ+ people, abortion, and everything else.

    There is no “might”. It will happen. The Heritage Foundation controls the GOP.

    There’s always a right-winger trying to make people think Project 2025 is no big deal. No, it’s not just a think tank, it’s The Heritage Foundation. They have massive influence over right-wing politicians. Ronald Reagan took direction from them, and Donald Trump let them pick his administration. Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, and Jeff Sessions were some of the people they picked.

    Back in 2022, The Heritage Foundation completely reversed its position on helping Ukraine. Most Republicans followed suit. They have a lot of power and a lot of Republicans licking their boots. It’s definitely something to worry about.

    Here are all the connections between Project 2025 and Trump statements.

    Christian Nationalism

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-hell-defend-christianity-from-radical-left-that-seek-to-tear-down-crosses

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-end-church-restrictions-politics-1234728218/

    Canceling Climate Change

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/03/21/on-fox-donald-trump-calls-climate-change-a-hoax-in-the-1920s-they-were-talking-about-global-freezing/

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-climate-change-global-warming-b2459167.html

    https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912799501/i-don-t-think-science-knows-visiting-fires-trump-denies-climate-change

    Control of the Federal Government

    https://newrepublic.com/post/174370/inside-trump-fascist-plan-control-federal-agencies-wins

    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-04-23/trump-seeks-more-control-of-fed-sec-and-other-agencies

    https://thehill.com/policy/finance/324408-the-19-federal-agencies-trump-wants-to-eliminate/

    Use the DoJ and FBI to arrest critics and opponents

    https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-has-threatened-dozens-of-times-to-use-the-government-to-target-political-enemies/

    Fire the Civil Service

    https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0507/trump-biden-schedule-f-civil-service

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plan-gut-civil-service-triggers-pushback-by-unions-democrats-2023-12-22/

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-civil-servants-schedule-f

    Replace civil servants with loyalists

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/03/distressing-republicans-eyeing-2024-race-support-plot-purge-federal-workers

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-civil-servants-plan-loyalists-b2132020.html

    https://www.project2025.org/personnel/

    Mass Deportations

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/trump-immigration-what-matters/index.html

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/closer-donald-trumps-2024-vow-deport-millions-migrants/story?id=110469177

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyxSA_udawk

    Make abortion illegal

    https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/trump-gay-marriage-abortion-supreme-court/index.html

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/16/abortion-rights-line-if-trump-administration-gets-4-more-years/5779444002/

    https://apnews.com/article/health-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-election-2020-1210f9012eec9818b25ac9abad46b955

    Canceling transgender rights

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-attacks-transgender-rights-video-1234671967/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/us/politics/donald-trump-transgender-protections.html

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article277322158.html

    Commenting this for visibility. The claims that he and others are making that they have no connection to Project 2025 or the Heritage Foundation are false.

  18. Most people don’t know or don’t care about project 2025.

  19. I’ve shared the link to the official site and the 900 page book and was still told it was nothing but leftist propaganda. They sent a link to Trump denying any knowledge of Project 2025 even after I sent that. There’s no changing their minds

  20. Trump being called out for past statements? What?

    Not since Romney’s “47%” and the “legitimate rape” era, both in 2012, have Republicans faced any scrutiny for saying something really stupid. They have grown so lax that the Project2025 site just spells everything out: “Here’s your fascist fascism with a side of fascism.”

    Have some billionaires decided they’re worried about Trump?

  21. I dont doubt trump doesn’t know shit about it. They are, however, the people who will enact his power and call the shots while he’s golfing as president.

  22. Media wants trump to win. The will get better ratings. That’s it

  23. DJT doesn’t give two shits about Project 2025’s policy goals. But he’s all-fucking-in on Project 2025’s method for getting there – a government full of people loyal to the executive and not the constitution. 

    This is what I don’t get: the GOP has worked for DECADES to create a voter base completely loyal to the party, even over themselves and their families. Enter DJT and he co-ops the whole thing and turns it into the MAGA Party (make no mistake, there is no GOP anymore, that’s only a brand name MAGA has coopted). Now you’ve got the Heritage Foundation trying to set things up such that DJT gets the keys to the kingdom and…they don’t think the same thing will happen to them? 

    They’re missing the forest for the trees. When DJT is legally accountable to no one, the Heritage Foundation will just be another expendable resource. Same with American Evangelicals. Same with the Musks and Thiels and the empires they think they control. These people/groups are so focused on themselves and their own lust for money, power, and control that they don’t see the existential monster staring them in the face. 

    They “delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke…”

  24. The heritage foundation is a conservative group that has positions they support. That does not mean the President Trump is for all their positions.

    It’s like Biden being for some of the things Black Lives Matter wanted, but not all of their positions. BLM aimed to destroy the nuclear family as stated in their website. Biden never said he was for that, just the things that make sense.

  26. So wait why is this something that would lose him votes? Nothing has stuck so far, why is this a bridge too far for his base or independents?

  27. This is precisely why we should rally rather having an internal conflict. Changing candidates shift the focus from this shit to trying to get the new candidates name out there and raising money. When in reality Project 2025 should be blasted on every tv screen, every flyer, every website.

  28. You know what porn sites need to have Project 2025 infographic on their front page before entering. That will get everyone attention. Like you gotta wait 3 minutes before you can move on to the site.

  29. Lol, “look how many people who aren’t Trump who are involved.”

  30. Downvote if you think Trump can spell the word “abysmal” and use it correctly in an official written statement.

    Drop that 💩emoji if you think he can, but only if he gets to use a few really derogatory words on whoever he’s talking about first, and then again after, and repeat the whole thing at least twice. 

  32. >But Trump allies have commented on the project in the past and appear to suggest the presumptive Republican presidential candidate must have known about it, as per resurfaced posts on social media.

    Trump or Trump’s allies?

    Many headlines are claiming Trump knew about it while this is about his allies.

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