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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STOP THE STEAL!!!
This will be another “ Do you denounce the KKK?” All over again. After he denounces 2025 over and over again.
This is a typical Rat trick! Get Trump to deny the project, then if he does any of the items, they will scream “fasciast”, or some other derogatory. Ignore them, then, fire them!!
Is that not in this project?? What is in this project that everyone is rejecting?
I guess they are not out campaigning with homosexuals and endorsing planned parenthood like Trump. The chemical abortion pill is not safe and effective, but then again neither were the vaxxes he signed blank checks for.
Under Reagan we got anchor babies and big pharma immunity.. how much have these two policies cost us I taxpayer dollars and harm.
Why do people tie themselves to Biden’s foreign policy?
You are obviously a good Democrat.
Sounds terrible, a purge of communists from the U.S. government.
“make it so.”
BTTT
The democrats and taterhead following the "45 Communist Goals" (as read into the Congressional recording 1963) should be scaring the hell out of every single American !
I am about a third of the way through Project 2025’s 922 page full PDF.
(Linked below...)
I can see why President Trump hasn’t simply declared his support for it,
even though there are a great many things in it that I’m certain he DOES
support. It does contain a LOT of thoughtful point making, but the contained
politics seem a bit too “diverse” to just be blindly aligned with as a whole product.
Much of it argues, in detail, for the reinstatement and furtherance of the
policies, orders and implementations President Trump orchestrated during his
first term, but much is also written about how to reform certain agencies, that
perhaps would be better eliminated due to their entrenched rot.
Another section seems to defend the importance of the preservation and
further strengthening of the Military Industrial Complex by promoting the
design and manufacture, for world consumption and sale, of dominant military
technologies, exportable by design from the outset.
The whole thing is a compilation of opinions from a broad array of ostensibly
conservative groups, assembled by the Heritage Foundation. So far, I find
much of it on point, but with some of it betraying a decidedly GOPe aroma.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
180 days? Trump will work faster than that.
Good little Demonrats are spreading misinformation about Project 2025 and Trump’s connection to it all over social media- the same platform most younger voters get their information from. The RNC needs to start countering this or we will have Demented Joe and the Ho for 4 more years.
How would they defend themselves if they didn’t have Vlad as their scapegoat?
In the older days they would trot out David Duke to “endorse” the R candidate and fearporn the minorities to stay on the D plantation.
This is just the current iteration of that scam.
Someone clearly didn’t read the article. The meme lords are all over this.
Trump’s people should say that Project 2025 has all the earmarks of a Russian Disinformation Campaign.
Make the Democrats DENY that the Russians aren’t behind it...they’ll be a like a dog chasing his tail all day.
Before ANYTHING ELSE, we MUST HAVE CLEAN, LEGAL VOTING!! NO MORE VOTE FRAUD, ILLEGALS VOTING, DEAD PEOPLE VOTING and PEOPLE VOTING IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS!!
STOP THE STEAL!!!
Ask yourself, for just a minute, why we have to have this? In a Republic, this is a mandatory thing, is it not? We the people should have to ask NO ONE for this. Yet, somehow we have been stripped of our fundamental right to democratic representation. There cannot be one of two political parties that can do this, an opposition party would alert everyone. Indeed, here you are pleading for something that should already be. Logically, this means that there is actually only one party running everything. They do not want the people’s opinion, but they do want more tax money, federal debt, and power via unelected government employees.
I want to warn people, that while Trump may be better economically, politically, and isn’t suffering from Parkinson symptoms or dementia, he has shown no proclivity to return power to the states or people. He has demonstrated no balanced budgets or introduced no such amendments. He has not cut non-essential FedGov agencies, unions, or spending. In fact, all of the resources of the FBI, CIA, Homeland, IRS, state dept, and DoJ that were spent endlessly used to harass conservatives and Trump himself are clearly Unconstitutional wastes of money. Everyone, in those sections, who participated does not need a job or a pension. Trump may be the ‘best option’ but the prize should be the People once again controlling FedGov, and not the other way around.
Trump has distanced himself from the 2025 group - whatever it is - which is fine I guess.
But he should counterattack and demand Biden distance himself from leftist socialist groups. Stay on offense.
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