"I have no idea who is behind it," the former president recently claimed on social media.
In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to "Mandate for Leadership," the project's extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch.
"Many people Trump knows quite well are behind it.
Six of his former Cabinet secretaries helped write or collaborated on the 900-page playbook for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation.
Four individuals Trump nominated as ambassadors were also involved, along with several enforcers of his controversial immigration crackdown. And about 20 pages are credited to his first deputy chief of staff.
Dozens more who staffed Trump's government hold positions with conservative groups advising Project 2025, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and longtime adviser Stephen Miller.
These groups also include several lawyers deeply involved in Trump's attempts to remain in power, such as his impeachment attorney Jay Sekulow and two of the legal architects of his failed bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Cleta Mitchell and John Eastman."
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It's almost like he's a pathological liar, along with being a criminal, a traitor, and a Dark Triad personality.
www.simplypsychology.org(callousness%20and%20cynicism)
Donald Trump's backtracking on Project 2025 didn't seem to fool many " aside from a few hard-line loyalists who expressed betrayal " but apparent proof of his knowledge and endorsement of the far-reaching plan further weakens his claim that he knows "nothing."
In an April 2022 speech before the Heritage Foundation " the ultra-right group behind the 922-page policy manifesto " Trump acknowledged exactly the kind of work they're doing and applauded them for "lay[ing] the groundwork" for his next administration.
"They're going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do," Trump said of the Heritage Foundation and their efforts to " as they describe on the Project 2025 website " "pave the way" for Trump's next administration.
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/11/our-movement-in-resurfaced-speech-endorses-heritage-foundations-
project-2025/
Trump, in April '22, keynoted a Heritage dinner as it began work on Project 2025: "This is a great group & they're going to lay the groundwork & detail plans for exactly what our movement will do ... when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America." pic.twitter.com/2ni0XESMci" Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) July 11, 2024
Swallow it, Runt.
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