Recently the Former Guy proclaimed to know nothing about Project 2025, the plan whose authors include 70% current and former Trump officials. In that he doth protest too much — does Trump support Project 2025? You bet your bippy he does!
What is Project 2025? Think of it as a vast plan, close to the former president, to feverishly establish Christofascism in America starting with Day 1 of a second Trump presidency. It is a 920-page document, and 1000-employee project, to “supercharge” another Trump term with an infusion of Christian nationalism.
More than 100 Christian nationalist organizations and groups are involved in drafting the blueprint for Trump’s next term, should that horrorscape come to pass. One core problem they have, however, is the extreme unpopularity of their ideas. Most Americans would recoil from the draconian measures Project 2025 wishes to bestow upon the nation, unasked for and unwanted — including banning abortion nationwide, restricting IVF, defunding education, pulling out of NATO, etc.
Who is behind Project 2025?
Project 2025 is so toxic in fact that Donald Trump disavowed it on Truth Social:
Despite his pathetic attempt to disclaim knowledge about Project 2025, Trump’s current and former staff make up the majority of the group’s architects. Trump’s name appears 312 times in their document. It’s simply not credible that the GOP presumptive nominee is unaware of his loudest allies and advocates — and even if you take him at his word, it constitutes malpractice for a political candidate to be so uninformed.
So allegedly, Donald Trump doesn’t know anyone behind Project 2025. Let’s have a look at the amazing Venn Diagram between Trump officials and Project 2025, shall we?
Karoline Leavitt
Currently serving as the national press secretary for Trump’s 2024 campaign, Karoline Leavitt appears as a trainer in Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy videos:
Stephen Miller
Dour, pasty-faced goon Stephen Miller complemented Trump’s sadism as his senior advisor, with his cruel border separation policy for children and their families. He is well known for his white supremacist views and associations, but less well known for his role as head of a legal group on Project 2025’s advisory board. Here is Miller in a recruitment ad for Project 2025:
Russ Vought
Russ Vought wrote the Executive Office of the President chapter in the 900-page manual akin to a Bible of Project 2025. He also served as Trump’s head of the Office of Management and Budget — a Cabinet-level role. Currently, he’s helping craft the GOP’s 2024 platform as a policy director at the RNC — and we’re to believe that none of his earlier work will find its way into the Republican policy blueprint for the next 4 years? Let’s be real.
Jeffrey Clark
Perhaps best known for his role in trying to use the DOJ to challenge the election results for Trump during the attempts to overthrow the 2020 election, disgraced former Trump official Jeffrey Clark is responsible for contributing, among others, the Project 2025 policy idea that Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act on day 1 in order to deploy the US military for domestic law purposes of his own designs.
Peter Navarro
Former Deputy Assistant to the President under Trump. One of the authors of the Project 2025 Playbook. Currently serving time in federal prison, for refusing a Congressional subpoena!
John McEntee
Trump’s former bag man — literally!
Ben Carson
His former cabinet secretary…
Ken Cuccinelli
Former Trump aide and an author of the Project 2025 plan handbook.
Paul Dans
The Director of Project 2025, Paul Dans was the Chief of Staff at the US Office of Personnel Management in the Trump administration.
Rick Dearborn
Formerly: Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff
Spencer Chretian
Formerly: Associate Director of Presidential Personnel. Currently: Associate Director of Project 2025.
Troup Hemenway
Formerly: Associate Director of Presidential Personnel
Steven Groves
Former White House Assistant Special Counsel
Jonathan Berry
Formerly: Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor
Adam Candeub
Formerly: Deputy Associate Attorney General
Dustin J. Carmack
Formerly: Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence
Brandan Carr
Formerly: FCC Commissioner
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Formerly: Assistant Secretary of Education
Thomas F. Gilman
Formerly: Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Mandy M. Gunesakara
Formerly: Chief of Staff, EPA
Gene Hamilton
Formerly: Counselor to the Attorney General
Jennifer Hazelton
Formerly: Deputy Assistant Administrator of Public Affairs, USAID
Dennis Dean Kirk
Formerly: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management
Bernard L. McNamee
Formerly: Commisioner, Federal Energy REgulatory Commission
Stephen Moore
Federal Reserve nominee
Mora Namdar
Formerly: Acting Assistant Secretary of State
William Perry Pendley
Formerly: Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management
Max Primorac
Formerly: Acting Chief Operating Officer, USAID
Roger Severino
Formerly: Director of the Office for Civil Rights, HHS
Kiron K Skinner
Formerly: Director of Policy Planning, State Department
Brooks D. Tucker
Formerly: Assistant Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs
Hans A. von Spakovsky
Formerly: Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
William L. Walton
Formerly: Agency Action Leader, Trump Transition
Paul Winfree
Formerly: Deputy Assistant to the President
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