And why is Trump repudiating the 2025 project?
What is that?
"...“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..."
If so, have you read the 2025 Project? Do you know which parts Trump might have read and found abysmal and ridiculous? If you haven't read it, how do you know there aren't ridiculous and abysmal things?
I have read the intro and skimmed the first hundred pages, finding nothing abysmal and ridiculous in it, but it isn't because they don't exist. I don't see them, and assume since it was put together by the Heritage Foundation, it doesn't have ridiculous and abysmal things. But I don't know that yet. But I can assure you, I have done more than 99% of the people who both support it and demonize it.
I very much like what I have seen so far, with one exception, and that was the section about updating tactical nuclear weapons and developing policies for use on the battlefield. But that exception was my gut opinion, and only stuck out at me because of the subject. And I don't think it is either ridiculous or abysmal, but I haven't had time to think it through. I assume any tactical nuclear weapons we have (if we have them) would be outdated, and the tactics haven't been updated in decades, but...I cannot say that either.
I don't know what Trump has seen or who may have "explained" parts to him, or how they have explained them to him.
He is correct to say those things with the exception of the "abysmal and ridiculous" statement (and given that I took that quote from NPR, I won't even grant as a given he said that, or that it was presented to readers in the correct context. But for the purpose of discussion, I accept that for the time being.
Trump likely had an idea the Heritage Foundation was behind it. But is that a given? And he sure did not have anything to do with its creation and has not signed on to it, probably being advised to for some political reasons.
This is a document from a think tank. When political campaigns are underway with potential new or repeat administrations, these position papers come fast and furious from many sources on both the Left and the Right. I have no idea how many of these show up in brown envelopes, sent to connected people and various campaign staffs, but I will bet it is way more than just-this-one.