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Trump’s Strategic Retreat: Leaving Pro-Trump Project 2025 Behind…

Trump’s Strategic Retreat: Leaving Pro-Trump Project 2025 Behind!

In an effort to put some distance between himself and a conservative group with whom he has close ties, former president Donald Trump sought to distance himself on Friday from their ambitions to drastically alter the federal government and American society if Trump were to win a second term.

Trump asserted on his social media account, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” referring to a blueprint developed by the Heritage Foundation to refocus the goals of numerous government departments toward conservative principles and to staff them with thousands of Trump supporters.

“I am completely unaware of its perpetrators,” Trump maintained on Truth Social. “Some of their claims are completely absurd and terrible, and I disagree with some of them. I hope they succeed in whatever they do, but I am not involved in their affairs.



This post is made just days after Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, was heavily criticized by Democrats for stating in an interview that the nation is “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Several officials from the Trump administration are now running Project 2025, which conservatives see as a plan for Trump’s transition into his second term. The program shares many of the president’s policy goals, particularly in the areas of immigration enforcement and streamlining the firing of federal employees.

Additionally, it contains contentious suggestions that Trump has not addressed, such as a prohibition on pornography, the reversal of federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, the exclusion of the morning-after pill and men’s contraceptives from the coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act, and the imposition of additional barriers to the transition for adults who identify as transgender.

“Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.” Is one of the primary goals of Project 2025, according to its architects.

In the face of President Joe Biden’s and Democrats’ growing efforts to associate Trump with its more contentious goals, the Trump team has spent months trying to clarify that Project 2025 is not its official platform.

Nevertheless, Trump’s very tight ties with numerous individuals who initiated or contributed to Project 2025 makes these endeavors more difficult. Project 2025’s leader, Paul Dans, served as chief of staff at the OPM under Trump. Other ex-staff members who have contributed to the group’s plan for the next administration include Rick Dearborn, who was deputy chief of staff, Ken Cuccinelli, who was acting deputy secretary of homeland security, and Ben Carson, who was the former secretary of housing and urban development. One of Trump’s closest advisors while in office, John McEntee, is also a senior adviser for the initiative. He was Trump’s director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office.

Even Trump himself praised Roberts’ work, saying that she was “doing an unbelievable job” and “bringing (Heritage) back to levels never seen” during a February meeting of Christian broadcasters.

These comments were made at a conference in Nashville not long after Roberts and Dans had spoken to the same audience. Dans told the crowd that he would be interested in serving in a second Trump administration if the former president were to win reelection in November. “We want no credit” for the groundwork it is laying, Roberts stated that night when speaking before Trump about Project 2025. Instead, she wanted “President Trump and his administration to take credit for that.” She

A spokeswoman for effort 2025 reaffirmed the group’s long-standing position that the next Republican president should use their transition effort as a model.

Project 2025 does not endorse any political party or candidate, as we have stated for over two years. More than 110 conservative organizations have joined forces to support a conservative nominee for president and to offer suggestions for his or her administration’s policies and staff. It is our firm belief that President Trump will be the one to make the final decision on which suggestions to put into action, according to the statement.

The recent message campaign by the Biden campaign associating Trump with the initiative was the most significant of several factors, according to a senior Trump campaign adviser who spoke with AWN, which led to Trump’s post disavowing the group.

Even though Project 2025 has partnered with several prominent Trump loyalists, the amount of attention its policy platforms have gotten and the impression that the group is cooperating with the campaign have long irritated Trump and his closest advisers.

Among the group’s associates are Turning Points USA and other prominent conservative organizations with ties to Trump’s campaign, as well as organizations that have been selected by Trump’s advisors to participate in their ground game approach in crucial battleground states in 2024.

The Center for Renewing America, headed by Russ Vought—Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget and, according to many in his inner circle, a strong candidate for a second term in the Trump administration—is one of several prominent organizations that have joined forces with Project 2025. Vought is also helping to steer the Republican platform committee in the lead-up to the Republican National Convention later this month. Additionally, Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former senator Jim Demint, as well as Stephen Miller, who advised Trump on immigration, and America Legal First, established by Miller, are all partners in the Conservative Partnership Institute.

Efforts by Trump to distance Project 2025 were swiftly rejected on Friday by the Biden team.

The radical individuals and policies outlined in Project 2025, according to Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa, “should terrify the hell out of the American people” during Trump’s second term in office. “The executive team and staff of Project 2025 often brag about their ties to Trump’s campaign and inner circle. The same individuals also head the Republican National Committee’s policy platform.”

Reports on the plans that Trump’s associates intend to execute upon Trump’s reelection have been denied by the Trump campaign in the past. In a statement released in November, Trump’s campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles stated that “reports about personnel and policies that are specific to a second Trump Administration are purely speculative and theoretical” and that no third parties have the right to speak for Trump or his campaign.

“Poke the Bear you are going to be bit” was LaCivita’s last tweet on Friday, as was the item she shared, which was captioned “Trump torches Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.”



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