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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.” “We have detailed agency plans,” Russell Vought bragged in a 2024 speech. “We are writing the actual executive orders. We are writing the actual regulations now.” Former president Donald Trump with then–acting director of Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought in the White House in 2019. As the mediasphere continues to process the fallout from Sunday’s MAGA hate-fest at Madison Square Garden, an equally chilling spectacle should command at least as much attention: ProPublica has unearthed videos of Russell Vought,...

If you don’t know who Vought is, that’s a first-order failure of our political press. He served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump and has spent the past four years commandeering the Center for Renewing America, a right-wing religious think tank serving up... Vought is also by most accounts the central strategist behind Project 2025, the full-scale plan to rebuild the federal government in the image of pure MAGA grievance politics, bigotry, and misogyny; in addition, he... The chapter he contributed to the Project 2025 governing blueprint makes the case for a militantly weaponized federal bureaucracy, purged of nonpartisan career staffers, and jolted into witch-hunting form by a new cadre of... It’s a vision of the Caesarist model of a right-wing “unitary executive” on steroids, ginned up from a paranoid Christian nationalist vision of the administrative state as a rolling, demonic assault on constitutional liberties. Every effort must be expended, Vought argued there, to face down the Mephistophelian treachery of a nomenklatura “carrying out its own policy plans and preferences—or, worse yet, the policy plans and preferences of a...

In the leaked videos of Vought’s addresses before gatherings of his think tank—a group with close ties to both the Trump White House and key Trump strategists such as Steve Bannon—this rhetoric comes off... It’s long been a truism that Trumpist allegations against an infidel, America-hating opposition are raw acts of psychological projection, but Vought takes this tic to a whole new level: “The stark reality in America... And they are going to continue to aim it until they no longer have to win elections.” ProPublica reporters Molly Redden and Andy Kroll—working in collaboration with Nick Surgery from Documented—released videos of a... Along the way, he also charts a strategy to put enforcement of immigration policy at the southern border of the country on a war footing, and declares holy vengeance against the “transgender sewage that’s... 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. Welcome to Politomix -- the political news wire where left, right and center mix. Politomix aggregates the day's political news on the web and your mobile device. Politomix Home Trending Sites Search About 2025 GlassWave For the record, here’s the quote from earlier this month: “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics.

And I think they’re the—and it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.” But Trump hasn’t just said “enemy from within” once, he’s said it at nearly every speaking event for the past two weeks, adding more and more context to exactly whom he views as the... The Republican presidential candidate has used the term to describe Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, suggesting that “enemy from within” referred to his political rivals. In an interview with Joe Rogan on Friday, Trump used the phrase again, referring to people who disagree with his politics as “people that are really bad, people that I really think want to... Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );

As Donald Trump delivers his closing attack on fmr. GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, a new report by ProPublica and Documented reveals leaked videos of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect and former Trump administration official, talking through plans for a MAGA takeover of the federal... MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin spoke with MSNBC Political Analyst Molly Jong-Fast, Yale Professor Jason Stanley and MSNBC Legal Analyst Charles F. Coleman.

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