Trump disavows Project 2025: ‘It is pure disinformation’
Former President Donald Trump says he’s got nothing to do with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation backed plan to reshape the federal government in the wake of a potential Republican takeover of the White House.
Trump swears the organization’s 900-page plan to fill the halls of government with conservatives in the grain of the MAGA movement has nothing to do with his re-election efforts.
“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,” he wrote on his Truth Social media platform, capitalization his.
John McEntee served as Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office under Trump, and now serves as a senior advisor to the project. Once the chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Paul Dans, is the project director. Trump’s former special assistant to the president and associate director of presidential personnel, Spencer Chretien, serves as associate project director.
The RNC, which Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara co-chairs, also has overlap with Project 2025. Russ Vought, a member of the Republican National Committee’s platform writing committee is also working on the final drafts of Project 2025.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, speaking earlier this month during former Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s podcast, said that the project represents part of “the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
According to the people behind Project 2025, “it is not enough for conservatives to win elections,” the next Republican administration will need “both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.”
While issuing an invitation to “Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith” to “lay down their tools” and head to D.C. in January of 2025, the project’s goal is to “is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.”
According to the Biden-Harris Campaign, the project has Trump written all over it.
“This extreme agenda was written in his image to make him a dictator above the law, rip away our rights, and crush Americans’ freedoms. Project 2025 looks like Donald Trump, it talks like Trump, and just like Donald Trump, it’s going to destroy America – we must stop him,” spokesperson James Singer said in a statement.
Herald wire services contributed.