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TRUMP TRYING TO DISTANCE FROM PROJECT 2025  
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Bret Wilkins
July 5, 2024
Common Dreams
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_ "Trump is now desperately trying to run from his deep ties to
Project 2025... MAGA extremists' radical wish list for a second Trump
term," President Joe Biden's campaign said. _

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in
Las Vegas on January 27, 2024., David Becker/Getty Images

 

Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday attempted to distance
himself from a conservative coalition's agenda for a far-right
takeover of the federal government, prompting derision from observers
who underscored close ties between the presumptive 2024 Republican
nominee and the blueprint's authors.

Trump took to his Truth social media platform to claim
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the knows "nothing about Project 2025," a sweeping initiative
spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to boost the power of the
presidency and purge career federal civil servants, who would be
replaced with Trump loyalists.

"I have no idea who is behind it," Trump added, a claim that numerous
observers quickly countered.

In an email entitled, "Donald Trump & Project 2025: One and the Same,"
Democratic President Joe Biden's reelection campaign said that "Trump
is now desperately trying to run from his deep ties to Project
2025—the Heritage Foundation's 900-page deeply unpopular manifesto
drafted by former Trump officials that offers Americans a preview of
MAGA extremists' radical wish list for a second Trump term."

"Project 2025 is the extreme policy and personnel playbook for Trump's
second term that should scare the hell out of the American people,"
Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement. "Project
2025 staff and leadership routinely tout their connections to Trump's
team, and are the same people leading the [Republican National
Committee policy platform, Trump's debate prep, campaign, and inner
circle."

"Trump's Supreme Court and Project 2025 have designed the playbook for
Trump to achieve his dream of being a dictator on day one
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unchecked, imperial power," Moussa added. "Allowing a self-absorbed
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that kind of power would be devastating for our democracy and
middle-class families. This November, voters must stop Trump from
turning the Oval Office into his throne room."

As _CNN_detailed
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Friday:

Paul Dans, the head of Project 2025, was chief of staff at the Office
of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, and the
group's roadmap for the next administration includes contributions
from others who have worked for the former president, including his
former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, former
acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, and former
deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn. John McEntee, Trump's former
director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office and one of
his closest aides while in office, is also a senior adviser for the
project.

_Mother Jones_ Washington, D.C. bureau chief David Corn said
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Christian nationalist Russell Vought, who is one of the Trump allies
in charge of the GOP platform effort, is a coordinator of Project
2025. Trump is gaslighting once again."

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that Trump's own Make America Great Again, Inc. super PAC is running
ads highlighting Project 2025.

Critics have called
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"blueprint for autocracy"—an assessment bolstered by last week's
U.S. Supreme Court ruling bestowing the president with what experts
described as king-like powers
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Trump's advisers have reportedly
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vowed to exploit if he wins November's election.

_The Associated Press_reported
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right-wing group allied with the presumptive GOP nominee was drafting
a list of federal employees who are disloyal or insufficiently dutiful
to Trump, an undertaking compared with the McCarthyite anti-communist
crusade during the second Red Scare in the 1950s.

Kevin Roberts, who heads the Heritage Foundation, raised eyebrows
earlier this week after he said
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right-wing "revolution" will "remain bloodless if the left allows it
to be," which some observers took as a thinly veiled threat of
violence.

In his Friday Truth post, Trump said that he disagrees with some of
Project 2025's agenda and that "some of the things they're saying are
absolutely ridiculous and abysmal."

"Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with
them," he reiterated.

Journalist Mehdi Hasan responded to Trump's claim in a social media
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"What's revealing about Donald Trump loudly disavowing Project 2025
and falsely denying any knowledge of it is that clearly he knows how
damaging it can be to his election bid."

"So why on earth did neither Biden nor the _CNN_ moderators bring it
up at the debate last week?" he asked.

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