As the public becomes aware of Trump allies’ Project 2025 plans to transform the entire federal government into a dystopian conservative nightmare, former President Donald Trump is doing what he has always done: refusing to take responsibility for what he is about to do. .
So Trump said he didn’t even know the people behind Project 2025, writing on his embattled social media platform, “I don’t know who’s behind it,” a claim so false that It’s ludicrous on the surface that several of his top figures were behind the scenes, including Paul Dans, whom Trump appointed late in his disastrous presidency in an attempt to get more credit for federal employees. More control.
But now an in-depth CNN investigation has found that at least 140 people who have worked in the Trump administration were involved, as well as nearly 240 people related to Project 2025 and the presumptive Republican nominee and now convicted felon. and a person associated with a convicted rapist.
From cabinet secretaries to ambassadors to his immigration enforcement staff, and the shocking 20 pages they uncovered attributed to his first deputy chief of staff, Trump’s staff worked with the Heritage Foundation on a 900-page A conspiracy to destroy American democracy as we know it.
CNN also found more people who worked for his administration, such as “his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and longtime adviser Stephen Miller.”
It’s worth noting, in case anyone missed the Project 2025 memo that the project is anti-democratic, “these groups also include several lawyers deeply involved in Trump’s attempts to stay in power, such as his impeachment lawyer Jay Sekulow.” (Jay Sekulow) and two legal advisors.
Trump is playing a game that works to his advantage as the media takes his denials at face value (while clearly not affording President Biden the same respect), so he has a deliberate habit of saying something inflammatory and then saying the opposite Or that he didn’t say it or didn’t say it, which was very effective for him to get rid of the media’s responsibility for him. But here he says he needs the Heritage Foundation to get his tax cuts through the House and Senate, proving they have worked together to advance what many economists have previously called a harmful agenda:
Trump says he “needs” the Heritage Foundation, the organization behind Project 2025, to “achieve” his extreme MAGA agenda https://t.co/AyuAbyz7aU pic.twitter.com/Sr72hdOKXC
—Biden-Harris Headquarters (@BidenHQ) July 5, 2024
Donald Trump did the same thing on abortion. He bragged about overturning Roe but didn’t want to be blamed for overturning Roe, so he told the media he was a moderate on abortion and was “softening” the RNC’s platform. Because of Donald Trump’s entire career, it’s easy to call it this: Trump changes his tune to suit whatever people want to hear at the time. What he says at any given moment will be the opposite of what he has said before.
Donald Trump knows hundreds of people involved in Project 2025. He was lying when he said he didn’t know them.
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