Posted on 07/07/2024 2:39:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
President Joe Biden has launched a scathing critique of former President Donald Trump regarding his alleged ties to Project 2025, a controversial and highly detailed 900-page document called 'Mandate for Leadership'.
Project 2025 overview and Joe Biden's response Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a product of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
The project, developed with input from former Trump administration officials, includes a 180-day transition plan and addresses both domestic and foreign policy. It is essentially an administration-in-waiting for the next conservative president.
Biden's focus on Project 2025 comes in the wake of his first debate against Trump on June 27, which led to calls from some Democrats for Biden to drop out of the race. In response, Biden highlighted one of the project's main targets: abortion.
He stated, "Project 2025 should scare every single American. It would give Trump limitless power over our daily lives and let him use the presidency to enact 'revenge' on his enemies, ban abortion nationwide and punish women who have an abortion, and gut the checks and balances that make America the greatest democracy in the world. It’s extreme and dangerous."
The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts praised a recent Supreme Court ruling on immunity, describing it as "vital" and suggesting it would aid the group's efforts in what he called the "second American Revolution."
Roberts remarked, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” during an interview on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.
Donald Trump's denial and Joe Biden's counterattack In an attempt to distance himself from Project 2025, Trump posted on his Truth Social account, "I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
However, the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign quickly responded online, emphasizing the connections between the project and Trump. Biden himself posted, "It’s his people and his plan. But it’s your freedoms and future at risk. Trump’s 'project' will destroy America."
The 922-page plan proposes a dramatic expansion of presidential power, including the potential firing of up to 50,000 government workers to be replaced with Trump loyalists. The agenda has become a focal point for Biden's reelection campaign as he seeks to maintain Democratic support following a challenging debate performance.
While distancing himself from Project 2025, Trump has outlined his own plans for government restructuring if he wins a second term. These include orchestrating the largest deportation operation in U.S. history and imposing tariffs on all imports.
His campaign has warned outside allies not to speak for him, indicating that their transition-in-waiting efforts might be counterproductive.
Key figures in Project 2025 Project 2025 includes several former senior Trump administration officials. Paul Dans, the project's director, previously served as chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management under Trump. Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, appeared in one of the project's videos.
John McEntee, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, serves as a senior adviser. McEntee told The Daily Wire earlier this year that the team would integrate much of its work with the Trump campaign post-summer when Trump would announce his transition team.
Trump’s comments on Project 2025 precede the Republican Party’s upcoming meetings to draft its party platform. Project 2025 has been preparing a 180-day agenda for the next administration to be shared privately, separate from its public priorities for a Republican president, WSVN reported.
Russ Vought, a key Trump ally and contributor to Project 2025, is also involved in drafting this agenda and sits on the Republican National Committee’s platform writing committee.
Despite its clear conservative orientation, Project 2025 claims no allegiance to a specific candidate.
"We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations for the next conservative president,” the project stated. “But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement.”
The Biden campaign has consistently depicted Project 2025 as an extremist agenda. Ammar Moussa, a Biden campaign spokesperson, described it as "the extreme policy and personnel playbook for Trump’s second term that should scare the hell out of the American people."
On the other hand, Agenda 47 is what Trump's 2024 presidential campaign calls their formal policy plans. According to the campaign, it is "the only official comprehensive and detailed look at what President Trump will do if he returns to the White House."
Joe Biden slammed on social media Considering, Biden was blasted on social media for his fearmongering and attempts to antagonize voters against Trump.
"Trump’s policy platform is Agenda 47, not Project 2025 but keep gaslighting and stoking racial hatred," one posted on X.
"Clutch your fear porn tight when you lay your head down to sleep," another quipped.
"The only ones acting like fascist[s] lately are Democrats," a comment read.
"Oh look they pulled out another Russian Dossier so they can try and spread another Russia Russia Russia hoax," someone else alleged.
"Whatever propaganda it takes to pull attention away from poopy pants," another chimed in.
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I don’t find the ideas or concepts and goals objectionable in this document.
I find that there is so much propaganda, and so much unfulfilled promises, that the likelihood of it coming to pass are near zero. My question remains, will Trump (a former NY city lifelong Democrat) pursue and implement this or not.
I was reading a paper by a Lt. Colonel at Air College. In it he describes a new "Plan Orange" for countering the Chinese if they were to become overtly belligerent within the First Island Chain (FIC) of the Pacific. What he accurately describes is an endless war that is a MIC wet dream. One of expensive conventional weapons and defenses in a stalemate that wishes to avoid some ultimate encounter for all mankind. In so doing, the alternative looks just as bad in a death of a thousand cuts wherein the MIC becomes ever richer. But for what? None of any of this makes any sense.
Remember the doctor in "Bridge Over the River Kwai" and as the bridge blows up he looks on saying, "Madness! Just Madness!" That is today.
Beetle bombs anyone?
One is ideas and concepts...the other is execution.
Either without the other is wholly useless.
Keep in mind that back in 1987 in his televised interview with Larry King, he specifically states when asked that he is a Republican.
I understand your point that his conservative indicators may be suspect on some issues, but he has been a Republican for most of his life (This link brings you right to that part of the interview):
1987 Interview with Larry King-Trump declares he is a Republican.
That said, I find this interview in 1987 compelling as a conservative, because it shows how much Trump hates the governmental intrusion into business, and the effect that has around the world to evoke contempt and ridicule at the way we have to do business.
I suspect we could agree some rules are necessary, but that isn't what we have right now. It is a full-on straight jacket, and even back in 1987, Trump chafed at it.
Who, in the heat of battle and a transition of the presidency, is going to find the time to read much of this at all? No wonder leaders get led into ditches having to simply trust on faith what people coach them to do. Busy people need a menu before you give them everything on it at once.
I am very disappointed this is the kind of product Heritage has produced.
And why do they publish these documents in this ridiculous and hard to read gray font?
I just said the very same thing. No serious document that purports to be a useful guide is not arranged with bullet points followed by detailed support. This just proves in spades that these bureaucratic policy wonks don’t know the first thing about management, leadership or business.
Additionally, a lot of the very people who wrote this document are the ones that led Trump astray his first administration. I see a lot of career camp followers and leeches of the government tit in their ranks just waiting for their next chance to take a draw on ths tit.
sounds so SCARY!!! ooo...
Thank you for those comments.
Yes, some of those contributors indeed seem to be the “usual suspects”.
Our opposition is big on infiltration and misdirection.
(not to mention maintenance of the “Status Quo”.)
Any large collection of “ostensible” conservative sources is going to have
its share of wolves in sheep’s clothing well sprinkled throughout.
I am disappointed that the Heritage Foundation proved unwilling to attempt
to more properly separate the chaff from the wheat.
~Easy
maybe contact the Heritage foundation and states your concerns about the document.
“maybe contact the Heritage foundation and states your concerns about the document.”
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I’m still reading the thing, but I thought all of you deserved the opportunity to try to discern for yourselves what President Trump’s biggest objections to it might be.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
thanks for that, I downloaded a copy already
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