Secret video: Project 2025 author says Trump “blessed” the “second phase” of their agenda
“Behind closed doors, chief Project 2025 architect Russ Vought confirmed Donald Trump has ‘blessed’ the work of Project 2025 architects as they work on the ‘second phase’ of their dangerous MAGA blueprint,” Floyd said in a press release shared with Truthout. “Trump’s MAGA minion Russell Vought is saying out loud what Americans have seen all along: the Project 2025 agenda is the Trump-Vance ticket’s plan to gut checks and balances, ban abortion nationwide, and raise taxes for the middle class.”
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Experts warn “don’t be fooled” by Trump’s Project 2025 denials: His “fingerprints are all over it”
“The thing is, Donald Trump’s fingerprints are all over it,” Matthews said at a July panel at New York University. “The people who drafted it are people that worked in his first administration who are still Trump loyalists and will go on to probably be in senior roles in a second Trump administration. So don’t be fooled when he says: ‘Oh, I don’t know anything about this.’ Clearly his campaign aides got to him.”
She added: “We know that he his people are behind it, and that this is what a second Trump term would look like.”
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Project 2025 mainly led by ex-Trump officials, leaked videos reveal
The videos appear to have been recorded before the resignation of the group’s director two weeks ago, reportedly due to “pressure from Trump campaign leadership”. Trump has recently attempted to distance himself from Project 2025 amid intense criticism and backlash regarding the group’s extreme policy proposals. As well as calling for the replacement of civil servants with Trump loyalists, those plans include eliminating the education department, shrinking environmental protections, and reducing LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights.
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