{"id":37292,"date":"2024-10-29T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=37292"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:41:29","slug":"leaked-videos-reveal-project-2025-architects-plan-for-far-right-shadow-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/leaked-videos-reveal-project-2025-architects-plan-for-far-right-shadow-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Videos Reveal Project 2025 Architect’s Plan for Far-Right ‘Shadow’ Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Russell Vought, then the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke at a press briefing on March 11, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (Photo: Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russell Vought, who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term, said he wants to inflict “trauma” on career civil servants and bulldoze opponents of the Republican nominee.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JAKE JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 28, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former high-level Trump administration official who played a key role in crafting the far-right Project 2025 agenda said in closed-door speeches revealed Monday that he wants to traumatize career civil servants and lay the groundwork for Republican nominee Donald Trump<\/a> to seize total, unfettered control of the federal government should he win the November 5 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In partnership with the watchdog organization Documented, ProPublica<\/em> on Monday published several videos<\/a><\/a> of two private speeches that Russell Vought\u2014who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term\u2014delivered in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the previously unreported speeches, ProPublica<\/em> and Documented observed, Vought “detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest” and “defund the Environmental Protection Agency.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The two speeches delivered by Vought, taken together, offer an unvarnished look at the animating ideology and political worldview of a key figure in the MAGA movement,” the new reporting notes. “Echoing Trump’s rhetoric, Vought implicitly endorsed the false claim of a stolen 2020 election and likened the media’s debunkings of that claim to Chinese Communist propaganda.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vought also laid out in unsettling terms his intention to leave federal employees “traumatically affected” as part of a sweeping effort to purge the government<\/a> of scientists and other civil servants deemed disloyal to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains,” Vought said in a clip obtained by\u00a0ProPublica<\/em>\u00a0and Documented. “We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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