Trump rejects Project 2025 due to potential political backlash – Washington Examiner

In Grand Rapids,​ Michigan, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ⁢criticized the Heritage Foundation’s policy proposals for his potential second term, calling them extreme and a source of misinformation. The Biden campaign has seized on this, using Project​ 2025, a plan Trump disavowed, to highlight the potential consequences of a second Trump presidency. The campaign accused Trump of focusing on himself and failed policies, rather than‌ uniting ⁢the country. ‌Trump’s contradictory ‌statements about Project 2025⁢ have also come under scrutiny, with the Heritage Foundation being seen as a key player in his potential second term plans.


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.”

Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, was founded in April 2022 to provide Trump with the groundwork for his second transition, a process that was disorganized under his leadership before he took office in 2017. One of the most criticized components of the project is its attempts to consolidate presidential power, including empowering more political appointees at the Justice Department and dismantling the Department of Education.

“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.”



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