Trump disavows Project 2025 as proposals risk becoming political drag

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ripped the Heritage Foundation‘s policy proposals for his hypothetical second administration as President Joe Biden‘s campaign uses the conservative think tank’s recommendations against him.

“Some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project ’25,” Trump told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday. “I don’t even know, I mean, some of them I know who they are, but they are very, very conservative. They’re sort of the opposite of the radical left. You have the radical left, and you have the radical right.

“They read some of the things, and they are extreme,” he said. “I mean they’re seriously extreme, but I don’t know anything about it. I don’t want to know anything about it, but what they do is misinformation, disinformation.”

The Biden campaign has amplified Project 2025, which the former president and his campaign have tried to distance themselves from, as a way to remind the public what a second Trump term could be like.

“We were promised a new Donald Trump who would unite the country — instead all we saw tonight was the same Donald Americans keep rejecting over and over: He’s peddling the same lies, running the same campaign of revenge and retribution, touting the same failed policies, and — as usual — focused only on himself,” Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa told reporters. “The only unity we saw today was between Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and their Project 2025 agenda.”

“Under the Biden administration, the federal government has been weaponized against American citizens, our border invaded, and our institutions captured by woke ideology,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts wrote in a statement last month. “The task force launched by House Democrats only underscores the Left’s fear of losing its grip on their authoritarian bureaucracy.

“If their strategy is to resort to scare tactics instead of tackling the genuine concerns of Americans regarding the unsustainable cost of living, rampant crime, border crisis, and global unrest spawned by their left-wing policies—well, they’re more than welcome to try,” Roberts added. “We will not give up and we will win.”