Trump once again caught
red-handed lying as he always does ref: the exposure of “Project 2025” which is now the #1 public search
topic since it recently came to light.
Trump’s denial and
exposure to the document is now front page news from Alternet here with this their
headline story:
“Anti-Trump GOP group
posts video of him praising Project 2025 authors after his latest denial”
Former President
Donald Trump is once again denying any knowledge or involvement with the
controversial far-right Project 2025 initiative written by the Heritage
Foundation.
In a post to his Truth Social account, Trump posted yet another vehement denial of both Project 2025 and the people behind it.
This
is the second time he has publicly distanced himself from the authoritarian
strategic document pushed by both Heritage and well over 100 of his previous
administration's advisors and staffers involved in producing it.
Trump wrote on
his social truth platform: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not
seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well
received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it. The Radical Left
Democrats are having a field day, however, trying to hook me into whatever
policies are stated or said. It is pure disinformation on their part. By now,
after all of these years, everyone knows where I stand on EVERYTHING!”
However, the Lincoln Project — a prominent anti-Trump
Republican group — countered that post with a video clip showing Trump speaking
to the Heritage Foundation in 2022.
The former president appeared to acknowledge Heritage's
policy work, calling them a “great group” that
is “going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement
will do.”
At the heart of
Project 2025 is its 920-page playbook entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The
Conservative Promise,” which six of Trump's former cabinet
secretaries either helped write or contributed in other ways via collaboration
with the playbook's other authors.
Some of the more
extreme policies listed in the playbook include: (1) Cutting veteran and
active duty military benefits, Social Security and Medicare; (2) Permanently
banning abortions and fertility treatments; (3) Removing LGBTQ+ individuals
from the list of federally protected classes, making it easier for them to be
discriminated against; (4) Converting public education infrastructure into a
for-profit system; and (5) Defunding the FBI and the DOJ among other Federal
Departments and Agencies (more details from
my earlier posts here, here, and here on this same subject).
Hoping to hit the ground running on Day One, authors of the plan, which was released in April 2023, say it’s a guide to undo the “damage to America caused by Democratic presidents.”
Added to all that outlined above are four broad recommendations: (1) Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life; (2) Dismantle the administrative state’ (3) Defend the nation’s sovereign borders; and (4) Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely.
Some specifics of the plan include: (1) Strictly limiting access to
abortion; (2) Shutting down all climate change initiatives; (3) Abolishing the
Education Department; (4) Dismantling or downsizing all Federal agencies like DHS,
NOAA, and taking a harder stance on immigration, which includes expanding the
deportation powers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and finishing the
border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
In essence, supporters of the plan want less government oversight
overall across the board EXCEPT those on
their terms.
Most experts opine and call the plan “a very far-right-wing
approach to government.” Most of them add: “It would certainly affect people
who depend on the government — low-income, senior citizens, and those on
Medicare and Medicaid. The thought is to retrain, almost indoctrinate, people
in the field of civil service … to be puppets of whoever’s pulling strings at
the top of the federal hierarchy and right now they envision that person as
Trump.”
Trump's latest denial
could be due to heightened interest from the American public in Project 2025. For example, MSNBC's host Ari Melber mentioned that according to Google Trends, more Americans are searching for Project 2025 than
even for pop icon Taylor Swift and the NFL.
A viral photo has also
spread of Trump at that same Heritage Foundation meeting shaking hands with the group's
president, Kevin Roberts, the chief architect of Project
2025. That serves as evidence contradicting Trump's false claim of not knowing
the author.
As far as Roberts goes, he
proudly proclaimed earlier this month in an interview with a far-right
broadcaster that his side was in the midst of a “second American Revolution” he
added: This is this revolution and we will in and it will be: “Bloodless, if the left allows it to be.”
That threat suggests to dissenters that a second Trump administration could be met with
violence that they are armed and ready.
One of the primary authors of Project 2025 is Russ Vought, who leads the far-right group Center for Renewing America — one of Heritage's main partners in the initiative , and he served as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under Trump.
He wrote Project 2025's section on “The Executive Office of the President of the United States.”
Vought also is thought to be one of the leading contenders for
White House chief of staff if Trump wins in November.
More Links ref: Project
2025: More Americans searching for Project 2025 than for Taylor
Swift or the NFL: Google results and from here Exhaustive review finds at least
140 ex-Trump advisors behind Project 2025: report
My 2 Cents: Not much more to say – the above and Project 2025 say
it all. Case closed – vote to keep President Joe Biden in office and to ensure
that Trump never gets back into the Oval Office and the only way to do that is
vote and help get out the vote to stop Trump.
Thanks for stopping by.
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