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... Trump also tried to distance himself from Project 2025, a platform created by the prominent conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation. Many of the authors of Project 2025 are key figures in Trump's orbit.

"The other side is going around trying to make me sound extreme " like I'm an extremist. I'm not," said Trump, who has previously supported the Heritage Foundation and its work. "Like some on the right " severe right " came up with this Project [20]25."

Trump said he knew some of the people who came up with 2025, but added, "You have the radical left, and you have the radical right " and they come up with this. I don't know what the hell it is, it's Project [20]25." ...

... trying to make me sound extreme ...

Not really trying to make fmr Pres Trump sound extreme, he does that all by himself.

And now he has Sen Vance as his ----------- in sounding extreme.

You can say what you want about Sen Vance.

In my view he will be a person who tossed away his sense of right and wrong to attain his goals of power.

He only became an adulant of fmr Pres Trump to get an endorsement for his Senate election.

And now, Sen Vance has gone full MAGA to get and possibly fill the VP slot.

That seems to be what the Republican Party has become, adulents becoming members of the Trump cult to attain governmental power.

Seeking a government position, not to serve the people of the US, but for the power to exploit the people of the US.

@#10

Well, yeah.