{"id":34712,"date":"2024-07-07T12:51:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34712"},"modified":"2024-07-07T12:51:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:51:54","slug":"trumps-camp-says-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-project-2025-manifesto-aside-from-writing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/trumps-camp-says-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-project-2025-manifesto-aside-from-writing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP\u2019S CAMP SAYS IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROJECT 2025 MANIFESTO \u2014 ASIDE FROM WRITING IT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former President Donald Trump at the first Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on June 27, 2024.\u00a0(Photo by Kyle Mazza\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump administration officials and campaign staff helped draft the controversial playbook and appear in its videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shawn Musgrave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 5 2024, 5:39 p.m. (TheIntercept.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN<\/strong> attempted to distance itself from the conservative Project 2025 playbook on Friday. Despite significant overlap between Project 2025 personnel and staffers from former president Donald Trump\u2019s administration and campaign, Trump issued a statement<\/a> saying he had \u201cno idea who is behind\u201d the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025 is spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation in partnership with dozens of rightwing advocacy organizations. It has two main components: First, a 900-page manifesto<\/a> with a wish list for the first 180 days of the \u201cnext conservative administration,\u201d including to further restrict abortion access and \u201cdismantle the administrative state.\u201d The second component is an application-only recruitment effort to ensure the administration is quickly staffed with loyalists.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Trump disavowed Project 2025 in a post to Truth Social, his social media platform, saying he found unspecified parts of the project \u201cabsolutely ridiculous and abysmal.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI disagree with some of the things they\u2019re saying and some of the things they\u2019re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cAnything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s vague disavowal of Project 2025 came a few days after Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, made inflammatory statements<\/a> about a coming \u201csecond American Revolution\u201d that would be \u201cbloodless\u201d \u201cif the left allows it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we\u2019ve been saying for more than two years now, Project 2025 does not speak for any candidate or campaign,\u201d the Project 2025 account said in a statement<\/a> on X. \u201cBut it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Trump\u2019s claims to have \u201cnothing to do with\u201d Project 2025, his administration and campaign personnel contributed to the project, including Karoline Leavitt, his campaign\u2019s national press secretary, as the Biden campaign quickly pointed out<\/a> on X. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Trump administration officials wrote and edited massive chunks of the manifesto. One of its two primary editors, Paul Dans, who directs the Heritage Foundation\u2019s 2025 Presidential Transition Project, served as the White House liaison for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, among other positions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Dearborn, who was briefly Trump\u2019s deputy chief of staff, wrote the White House chapter. Russ Vought<\/a>, Trump\u2019s director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote the chapter on OMB and similar executive offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gene Hamilton, who served in the Trump Justice Department and is now the vice president and general counsel of America First Legal, wrote the DOJ chapter. Similarly, the chapter on the Department of Homeland Security was written by Ken Cuccinelli, who held multiple positions in Trump\u2019s DHS. The list of Project 2025 playbook contributors includes former Trump administration officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, among other departments and agencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Navarro \u2014 who advised Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign, served as director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and recently reported to prison<\/a> for refusing to cooperate with a Congressional inquiry into January 6 insurrection \u2014 drafted a chapter on trade policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People close to Trump also contributed to the Project 2025\u2019s effort to recruit conservatives for administration positions, including appearances in promos and training videos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leavitt, the Trump campaign\u2019s national press secretary, is featured in a promotional video for the Project 2025 academy, along with Stephen Miller and other former Trump administration officials. According to the Project 2025 recruitment website<\/a>, \u201cThe Presidential Administration Academy is a one-of-a-kind educational and skill-building program designed to prepare and equip future political appointees now<\/em> to be ready on Day One of the next conservative Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the academy syllabus<\/a>, Leavitt also co-teaches a video module in the academy, titled, \u201cThe Art of Professionalism.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI appeared in a video for Heritage the year before I started working on the Trump campaign,\u201d Leavitt told The Intercept when asked how the Trump campaign could claim ignorance of Project 2025. Referring to Trump\u2019s campaign platform, she said: \u201cAgenda 47<\/a> is the only official policy agenda of the President Trump and our campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other former Trump administration officials listed on the Project 2025 academy syllabus include Dearborn, Roger Severino, Hugh Fike, and Bethany Kozma.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONTACT THE AUTHOR:<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shawn Musgrave<\/a>shawn.musgrave@theintercept.com<\/a>@ShawnMusgrave<\/a>on X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/07\/05\/trumps-campaign-project-2025\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SUPPORT US Former President Donald Trump at the first Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on June 27, 2024.\u00a0(Photo by Kyle Mazza\/Anadolu via Getty Images) Trump administration officials and campaign staff helped draft the controversial playbook and appear in its videos. Shawn Musgrave July 5 2024,… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34713,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712\/revisions\/34713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}