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A Secret Video Shows Project 2025 Is Still At The Heart Of A Potential

Bonisiwe Shabane
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a secret video shows project 2025 is still at the heart of a potential

In one of the least convincing performances this election season, former President Donald Trump has been trying to put daylight between himself and Project 2025, a 920-page manifesto for the next GOP president to... He has insisted that he has never heard of the head of the Heritage Foundation, which has spearheaded the conservative initiative. He not only has heard of him — he also flew on a private plane with him in 2022. One of the people who would almost certainly be tapped to implement Project 2025 should Trump win is apparently unconcerned. Trump’s campaign has tried to divert the public’s focus to the much less detailed, but still extreme, official Republican Party platform, and Trump’s frustration with being linked with the retrograde policies was so great... His campaign then issued a statement welcoming what it called reports of the group’s “demise.” But one of the people who would almost certainly be tapped to implement Project 2025 should Trump win is...

In a newly released video from a British journalism nonprofit organization, Russell Vought makes it clear that it’s full steam ahead. They’re stilling plan to make their dystopia vision for America a reality. Vought admitted as much in a conversation secretly recorded in a Washington hotel room last month. Unbeknownst to him, the two men he was meeting with were an undercover journalist and a paid actor from the United Kingdom’s Centre for Climate Reporting pretending to be relatives of a wealthy American... In the extremely candid chat that followed, as reported by CNN, Vought revealed just how much Project 2025 legwork has already been done: In preparation for Trump’s potential return to the White House, Vought said in the meeting that he had a team of staffers working to draft regulations and executive orders that would translate Trump’s campaign...

“We’ve got about 350 different documents that are regulations and things of that nature that are, we’re planning for the next administration,” he said. “For example, “you may say, ‘OK, all right, DHS, we want to have the largest deportation,’” Vought said. “What are your actual memos that a secretary sends out to do it? Like, there’s an executive order, regulations, secretarial memos. Those are the types of things that need to be thought through so you’re not, you’re not having to scramble or do that later on.” Amanda Becker, The 19th Amanda Becker, The 19th

Orion Rummler, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th This story was originally published by The 19th. In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to... As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in... By Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash and Kyung Lah, CNN

(CNN) — Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his... But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time. The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, published a video of the meeting on Thursday – offering a window into the thinking of one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement, who’s... This story was originally published by ProPublica.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda for a right-wing presidential administration, has lost its director and faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy on behalf of a future Trump administration remains on track. One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.

The Project 2025 videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats. There are strategies for avoiding embarrassing Freedom of Information Act disclosures and ensuring that conservative policies aren’t struck down by “left-wing judges.” Some of the content is routine advice that any incoming political appointee... Other segments of the training offer guidance on radically changing how the federal government works and what it does. This article originally appeared on Truthout. Hidden camera video featuring a key proponent of Project 2025 and a former Trump administration official details how the project is still very much alive and running, despite insistence from others that it was... Project 2025 is a manifesto organized by The Heritage Foundation and dozens of other conservative groups that is meant to provide a framework for how Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, should reshape...

Among its many “wish list” items, it calls for the rescinding of protections for LGBTQ people, the further deterioration of reproductive rights, the privatization of Medicare, the abolishment of the Department of Education and... The document also features ideals familiar to Christian nationalist and white supremacist movements, and at least five of its contributors have espoused the latter movement’s views in the past. A cache of previously undisclosed training videos produced for Project 2025, a controversial initiative to prepare right-wing political appointees for a potential conservative presidential administration, has come to light, raising alarm among government watchdogs... The revelation comes amid increasing efforts by former President Donald Trump to distance himself from the project and recent leadership changes at The Heritage Foundation, which spearheads Project 2025. The videos, totaling over 14 hours of content across 23 separate recordings, were obtained by ProPublica on Saturday and documented from an individual with access to the materials. They offer an unprecedented look into the preparations being made by conservative groups to rapidly implement far-reaching policy changes should a Republican candidate win in this year's election.

"Want to know what's in PROJECT 2025's never-before-published training videos to make future Trump appointees 'ready on Day One'? We got 'em. 23 different videos. 14 hours of tape," ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday morning. Project 2025 has faced intensifying scrutiny in recent weeks following the resignation of its director Paul Dans and attempts by Trump to disavow any connection to the initiative. Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.

Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his... But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time. The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, published a video of the meeting on Thursday – offering a window into the thinking of one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement, who’s... Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”

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