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Democrats Continue To Spew Lies About The Contents Of Project 2025
The Federalist ^ | 07/11/2024 | Monroe Harless

Posted on 07/11/2024 11:01:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Democrats are lying about Project 2025 in an irrational fearmongering campaign aimed at smearing Donald Trump and propping up Joe Biden.

Democrat officials have launched a disinformation campaign about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, misattributing policies nowhere to be found in the project and falsely linking them to former President Donald Trump.

The project is a policy roadmap for a future Republican administration created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and outlined in a nearly 1,000-page document highlighting long-held conservative priorities. The left’s fearmongering campaign comes amidst panic in the Democratic Party, which has fractured over Biden’s cognitive decline and abysmal election polling.

“[Project 2025] is a dangerous takeover by Trump and his allies to pass his extreme MAGA agenda,” Biden recently said on X, including a video that claims the project “would allow employers to stop paying overtime for millions” and “enact a national abortion ban.”

The claims are massive distortions of the project’s actual policies. The outline, in reality, suggests “calculat[ing] the overtime period over a long number of weeks” with the goal of giving workers greater flexibility in their schedule.

A national abortion ban is nowhere to be found in the policy outline, which insists conservatives should “recogn[ize] the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult and often tragic situations.”

The project encourages “complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion” and notes that “alternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support.”

The Biden campaign has doubled down on efforts to attribute the project to Trump, even creating a webpage that calls the policy plan “Trump’s Project 2025.” Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from the think tank’s policies.

“I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

The website, nevertheless, insists that Trump plans on “reinstating and expanding [the] racist Muslim ban,” “arming teachers,” and “raising the retirement age.” It also claims Project 2025 will put “families’ access to IVF treatments … in jeopardy” and “cut Social Security.”

Not one of these policies is contained anywhere in Project 2025.

Other Democrats have participated in the fearmongering. 

“They’re going after IVF,” Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on MSNBC in February. “They also want to control … what they call recreational sex. … This is so clearly a patriarchal theocracy.”

Project 2025 makes no mention of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or “recreational sex.” Mentions of “God” and “Christian” are limited to religious freedom, tax exemptions, work as “service to God,” and “God-given individual rights to live freely,” contrary to AOC’s claims of theocracy.

Celebrities on the left have joined in the misinformation campaign as well. 

Hollywood actor Mark Hamill, a longtime Democrat fundraiser and Biden supporter, spoke out against Project 2025 in a recent post, writing, “With fear for our Democracy, I dissent.”

The actor included a graphic of Trump with a laundry list of goals supposedly outlined in the project, including ending no-fault divorce, banning African American studies, banning contraception, banning Muslim immigration, cutting social security, raising the retirement age, and court packing.

Project 2025 responded with an enumerated list of 30 “myths vs. facts,” clarifying Hamill’s more misleading claims.

Mandate for Leadership calls for LOWER taxes for ALL Americans. Individuals spend their money in more productive ways than the government does,” the post noted, debunking the assertion that Project 2025 calls for higher taxes for working-class people.

Mandate for Leadership’s plan would not eliminate the FDA or the EPA, and NOAA’s functions would be transferred to other agencies, the private sector, and states and territories,” the post clarified about misleading claims on government agency policy.

But regardless of the facts about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Democrats and their supporters will continue to lie about the policy plan’s substance and inaccurately link the plan to Trump in an attempt to derail his presidential campaign.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: heritagefoundation; project2025
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1 posted on 07/11/2024 11:01:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Evidently the Dims are having trouble marketing Trump as a menace to society that only the Dims can save us all from.

So they have to create another bogeyman and hope that sticks.

2 posted on 07/11/2024 11:06:27 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They really should read it first and then lie about...

I have read some of it and find it interesting.


3 posted on 07/11/2024 11:07:46 AM PDT by 103198 (It's the metadata stupid...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Heritage should disappear for 4 months. None of this helps Trump win.


4 posted on 07/11/2024 11:08:26 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


5 posted on 07/11/2024 11:11:08 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I pointed these things out to my liberal workmate. She threatened me.


6 posted on 07/11/2024 11:13:32 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: SeekAndFind
Democrats Continue To Spew Lies About The Contents Of Project 2025

Shows how little they've really got on PDJT.

7 posted on 07/11/2024 11:17:47 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SeekAndFind

The Project 2025 people must have the sads after Trump’s politely-expressed and oh-so-friendly stiffarm.

It really is low-profile, state-by-state battle for individual hearts and minds now. As in, state-centric—no call for a national-level or “Roe v. Wade” scale crusade on the pro-life side.

In any event, is it not true that the most active “fault line” going forward will be with respect to so-called “Plan B” abortifacient pharmaceuticals? There must be no telling exactly how many human souls are denied live birth by that form of abortion each day. Whatever that number is, or is estimated to be, the local (state- or municipal-level), personal, hearts-and-minds appeal would seem to be the best, most charitable approach.

IVF is a whole other kettle o’ fish. Those who are attracted to it or who have gone that route likely span the entire political spectrum, including, most likely, and sadly, many, many U.S. Catholics who regularly attend mass at Novus Ordo diocesan parishes and would self-report as devout. (Authentic/traditional U.S. Catholics being more uniformly and properly catechized on this issue.)


8 posted on 07/11/2024 11:34:07 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: SeekAndFind

Fear tactics, it’s a democrat tradition - is pushing granny in a wheelchair down a hill part of 2025?? Probably


9 posted on 07/11/2024 11:35:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

The latest diversions fromBiden’s impairment are Agenda 2025 and Trump loved Epstein’s island

The desperation is palpable.

Expect collusion with Russia next…oh, they tried that


10 posted on 07/11/2024 11:42:13 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Tell It Right

You are correct. This is just another bogeyman issue for the Democrats.


11 posted on 07/11/2024 11:49:10 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump has already denied knowledge of Project 2025:

I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it.

12 posted on 07/11/2024 11:58:54 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats are lying about Project 2025

The greater danger is those who believe it.

Comrades in arms


13 posted on 07/11/2024 12:06:35 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

I just wish the right had some smart clever funny people with foresight who would do something like a project 2025 in an election year and let the media, and the dems and the stupid lefties go berserk. Then, air a video with the central planners of this devious 2025 plot laughing as they put this together saying how they will easily trick a corrupt media into pushing it and totally deflate what the media spends tons of time trying to corruptly instill fear into their dem voters.


14 posted on 07/11/2024 12:11:52 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Tell It Right

15 posted on 07/11/2024 12:24:00 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Awesome meme!


16 posted on 07/11/2024 12:55:59 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor; pookie18

Pookie, Look at comment #15 for a great meme that BookmanTheJanitor posted.


17 posted on 07/11/2024 12:56:58 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The website, nevertheless, insists that Trump plans on “reinstating and expanding [the] racist Muslim ban.”

Make my day.


18 posted on 07/11/2024 12:57:25 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Tell It Right

Thanks, Tell It Right!

https://www.wnd.com/2024/07/project-2025-playbook-restore-america/


19 posted on 07/11/2024 2:55:22 PM PDT by pookie18 (You don’t have to be high on crack to enjoy Pookie’s Toons! - Tell It Right)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Why? The Dems simply chose them to lie about.


20 posted on 07/12/2024 11:23:22 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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