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Trump has “blessed” the organization working behind the scenes on hundreds of executive orders, should he win again. Truthout’s December fundraiser is our most important of the year and will determine the scale of work we will be able to do in 2026. Please support us with a tax-deductible donation today. 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...

While former President Donald Trump has repeatedly, publicly distanced himself from Project 2025 — a 900-page guidebook for Trump’s second term as President — one of the document’s co-authors was caught on a hidden... Russell Vought was the director of the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s administration, and he later ran the Center for Renewing America after Trump lost reelection. The organization played a large role in crafting Project 2025, along with several other right-wing groups. As the policy director for the Republican National Convention last month, Vought also helped to write the new GOP platform. In short, Vought is deeply involved in developing policy for the Republican party as well as Project 2025. The UK-based Centre for Climate Reporting constructed a ruse to catch Vought spilling insider information on Project 2025, requesting a meeting between him and two journalists who misrepresented themselves as relatives of “a reclusive...

During the July 24 meeting, Vought spoke candidly about the goals of Project 2025 and how much Trump had a hand in it. CNN reported: Vought said he had personally talked to Trump in recent months and received at least one personal “assignment” from him after he left office. He noted that the former president has “been at our organization, he’s raised money for our organization, he’s blessed it … he’s very supportive of what we do.” After weeks of former president Donald Trump claiming despite all evidence that he’s got nothing to do with Project 2025, a policy blueprint written for the next conservative president, one of its co-authors was... Russell Vought was the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump and wrote a chapter on executive power in the Project 2025 playbook.

He was also on the committee that wrote the GOP’s 2024 campaign platform. In late July, Vought met with two men he thought were relatives of a conservative New Mexico donor in a Washington, D.C., hotel suite and spoke with them for close to two hours about... Except the GOP megadonor was fake and the men were working for a British journalism nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting. They filmed the whole thing on a hidden camera and published the video on YouTube on Thursday; the ruse was first reported by CNN. Vought told the men that Trump’s efforts to distance himself from Project 2025 were “graduate-level politics” and that he was all in. Just read this paragraph:

He also said: “I see what he’s doing is just very, very conscious distancing himself from a brand. It’s interesting, he’s in fact not even opposing himself to a particular policy.” Russell Vought, a former Trump administration official who is also one of the brains behind the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, was secretly recorded casting doubt on former President Donald Trump's claims that he wants... As CNN reports, undercover left-wing activists filmed a meeting with Vought in which he said he was unconcerned by Trump's efforts to distance himself from Project 2025. "I see what he’s doing is just very, very conscious distancing himself from a brand,” Vought said of Trump's public disavowals. “It’s interesting, he’s in fact not even opposing himself to a particular policy.”

ALSO READ: Harris has figured out Trump’s greatest liability Vought also boasted of his close connections with Trump and said that he had expressed support for the Center for Renewing America, where Vought and his allies have been drafting executive orders for Trump's... During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 – a policy manual for “the next conservative President” that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written by veterans of the... Trump claimed he knew “nothing about Project 2025” and had “no idea who is behind it,” despite evidence to the contrary, while Democrats portrayed the document as “Trump’s Project 2025.” Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ran an ad campaign tying Trump to Project 2025 and created the website TrumpsProject2025.com. At the Democratic National Convention, multiple speakers warned about the project’s proposals (not always accurately), including speakers who used an oversize copy of the book as a stage prop.

Democrats focused on specific Project 2025 proposals – including some, such as closing the Department of Education, that Trump did support and has acted on since returning to office, and others, that he didn’t... Since taking office, Trump has been actively implementing or trying to implement many of Project 2025’s recommendations through directives, executive orders, his proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and major pieces of legislation, notably the... 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. 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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