Donald Trump on Friday sought to distance himself from a closely-aligned conservative group’s plans to radically reshape the federal government and American life should the former president win a second term.

In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals.

“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump continued on Truth Social. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and 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.”

. . . Trump’s campaign has sought for months to make clear that Project 2025 is not its official policy platform amid an intensifying effort by President Joe Biden and Democrats to tie Trump to its more controversial policies.

Yet those efforts are complicated by Trump’s extremely close relationship with many of the people who launched Project 2025 or helped contribute to it. 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.

Yeah he has NO IDEA WHO IS BEHIND IT. Odds that the demented rapist himself wrote that . . . shit? 0%.

And “Abysmal”? No. Man wouldn’t know an abyss if it bit him in the girdle.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    So I just checked in with my lone remaining person who supports trump. He says “oh yeah, trump’s been trying to distance himself from that for awhile. Don’t be a sucker that’s all hard-right garbage”. Obviously the sports/talk radio is not concerned about it.

    So they’re just moseying along as if trump’s normal and just more conservative than Biden so they’re voting for him. He reads ‘moderate’ websites (CNN, BBC) and claims he just can’t abide “either side’s crazies” which. I mean, I get it. I think that’s pretty well the clearest indictment of our corporate news media there could be.

    They spent years pretending like it was all normal. And they will continue to do so. And now a message from our sponsor, Dawn dish detergent. It’s the quicker picker upper!