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Weird Trump is lying that he doesn't even know the people behind Project 2025.
Last edited Fri Jul 5, 2024, 02:50 PM - Edit history (1)
Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump“I know nothing about Project 2025.”
This a lie. Many people involved in Project 2025 are Trump allies and served in his administration.
...here is Donald Trump and former Heritage Foundation president and founder Ed Feulner
Trump Administration Embraces Heritage Foundation Policy Recommendations
One year after taking office, President Donald Trump and his administration have embraced nearly two-thirds of the policy recommendations from The Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership.”
The “Mandate for Leadership” series includes five individual publications, totaling approximately 334 unique policy recommendations. Analysis completed by Heritage determined that 64 percent of the policy prescriptions were included in Trump’s budget, implemented through regulatory guidance, or under consideration for action in accordance with The Heritage Foundation’s original proposals.
>>> View the list of all 334 policy recommendations and their status at the one-year mark: https://www.scribd.com/document/369820462/Mandate-for-Leadership-Policy-Recommendations
“President Trump had an extraordinarily successful first year,” says Thomas Binion, director of congressional and executive branch relations at The Heritage Foundation. “He put a conservative on the Supreme Court and he enacted historic pro-growth tax reform. This analysis demonstrates the lesser-known policy success that his administration has been fighting hard to enact.”
https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations
...and, remember, Project 2025 now has over 100 coalition sponsors who are completely enmeshed in the republican party and Trump's campaign:
report: The project’s coalition partners include a number of well-known conservative groups: The anti-abortion organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, The Conservative Partnership Institute, The Claremont Institute, and Turning Point USA, among others. Project 2025 has been working for months to compile (and train, via its “Presidential Administration Academy”) a database of conservatives for the next Republican administration to choose from while also developing a hefty policy book.
The last pillar in the effort focuses on developing a 180-day playbook of regulations and executive orders that could be signed and implemented by the next president on his (or her) first days in office. With over 100 coalition partners now tapped to serve, Project 2025 can begin ramping up its work on this final, and key, initiative.
The last pillar in the effort focuses on developing a 180-day playbook of regulations and executive orders that could be signed and implemented by the next president on his (or her) first days in office. With over 100 coalition partners now tapped to serve, Project 2025 can begin ramping up its work on this final, and key, initiative.
Also, in February, new Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts introduced Trump during the National Religious Broadcasting (NRB) conference. Again, Heritage is the lead organizer of Project 2025, who said Trump will enact their P2025 agenda:
Link to tweet
...so, let's look at what the new Heritage Foundation's president's goals and intentions are for Project 2025:
Since taking over the Heritage Foundation in 2021, Kevin D. Roberts has been making his mark on an institution that came to prominence during the Reagan years and has long been seen as an incubator of conservative policy and thought. Roberts, who was not well known outside policy circles when he took over, has pushed the think tank away from its hawkish roots by arguing against funding the war in Ukraine, a turnabout that prompted some of Heritage’s policy analysts to leave. Now he’s looking ahead, to the 2024 election and beyond. Roberts told me that he views Heritage’s role today as “institutionalizing Trumpism.” This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump’s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that “the Trump administration, with the best of intentions, simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html
anyway...
...here's Trump with his Director of White House Personnel and architect of Project 2025 John McEntee.
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...kep it coming! 
...hyperbole around friends.
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