That we will not remember what he said the day before…
Project 2025 became a hot potato for Trump so he did what he did all the other times… Lie. Lie about knowing anything about Project 2025. As the famous Sergeant Schultz like to say: "I know nothing, nothing!"
You are growing sleepy. Sleepy, and when you wake up you will not remember anything Trump has said. Oh hey, wait a minute! We always fall asleep when Trump rants on and on.Trump is trying to distance himself from Project 2025 -- but its architects helped shape his RNC party platform
The conservative Project 2025 seeks to overhaul the federal government.
ABC News
ByWill Steakin and Soo Rin Kim
July 9, 2024Last week, former President Donald Trump attempted to distance himself from "Project 2025," a sweeping plan to overhaul the federal government proposed by a closely aligned conservative group.
"I know nothing about Project 2025," Trump claimed on social media, referring to the 922-page plan put forward by a group of conservative organizations led by the Heritage Foundation. "I have no idea who is behind it."
Trump's comments made it seem like he had no connection to the controversial plan or those involved in it.
But when Republicans meet in Milwaukee next week and vote to officially confirm the first new Republican Party platform since 2016 -- which Trump and Republicans across the country will run on -- that platform will have been crafted and influenced by individuals with deep ties to Project 2025.
In May, the Trump campaign and the RNC announced their Platform Committee leadership team, the senior officials tasked with drafting the Republican platform, and named Russ Vought as the platform committee's policy director and Ed Martin as deputy policy director. Both have ties to Project 2025.
CNN wrote...
Former President Donald Trump on Friday sought to distance himself from a closely aligned conservative group’s plans to radically reshape the federal government and American life should the former president win a second term.
In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals.
“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump continued on Truth Social. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
A meme circulating on Facebook,
But Project 2025 has lately become a lightning rod for other ideas Trump hasn’t explicitly backed. Within “Mandate for Leadership” are plans to ban pornography, reverse federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, exclude the morning-after pill and men’s contraceptives from coverage mandated under the Affordable Care Act, make it harder for transgender adults to transition, and eliminate the federal agency that oversees the National Weather Service.Its voluminous and detailed plans also run counter to Trump’s desire for a streamlined GOP platform absent any language that Democrats could wield against Republicans this cycle.Roberts recently faced backlash as well for saying in an interview that the country was “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”Three days later, Trump posted to Truth Social: “I know nothing about Project 2025.”
When it became a hot potato Trump goes into lair mode... "I know nothing, nothing!"
Slate writes;
This kind of gaslighting is “one of the oldest dictator tricks,” as Ruth Ben-Ghiat, one of the co-editors of the Threat Tracker, has documented in her scholarship. “‘Dictators sometimes pretend not to know what is happening so they can blame their officials for the destruction and keep their personality cults in good shape.”Of all Trump’s recent lies, his attempted dissociation with Project 2025 may be the most important—because he’s trying to convince the American people that the choice between dictatorship and democracy that they face is not before them at all. That, and not just Joe Biden’s (genuine) challenges, should be the issue dominating public discourse. If Biden is reelected, we’ll get an aging yet good-hearted and law-abiding man who has demonstrated stellar performance as president. It is still up to Biden to prove that he has the stamina and competence to remain in the race.
Kind of makes you wonder if Trump is playing us all for suckers?
How can you have a president you cannot trust to tell you the truth?
As recently as April, Project 2025's senior adviser John McEntee -- who was previously a Trump White House adviser -- said he was working to integrate Project 2025 with the Trump campaign while also attempting to create a distinction between the two entities.
"Obviously, there will need to be coordination and the president and his team will announce an official transition this summer, and we're going to integrate a lot of our work with them. But I think keeping the two separate is actually the most beneficial way to go about it," McEntee said on the Daily Wire's Morning Wire.
Maybe Trump should call his party the "Know Nothing" party. But that has already been used/
Another Facebook meme...
And this is not the first time that the Heritage Foundation came up with a gimmick like this. CBS News reported,
The Heritage Foundation also created a "Mandate for Leadership" in 2015 ahead of Trump's first term. Two years into his presidency, it touted that Trump had instituted 64% of its policy recommendations, ranging from leaving the Paris Climate Accords, increasing military spending, and increasing off-shore drilling and developing federal lands. In July 2020, the Heritage Foundation gave its updated version of the book to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.The authors of many chapters are familiar names from the Trump administration, such as Russ Vought, who led the Office of Management and Budget; former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller; and Roger Severino, who was director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services.
So no matter how much he says that he knows nothing about Project 2025 and he is not going to implement Project 2025, don't believe him because he did it in his last term, he is the Liar-in-Chief!
This November I’m voting for the man who doesn’t lie at a drop of a hat and not for the bold-faced chronic liar.
By The Way, there are other connection to Heritage Foundation's Project 2025,
I asked Perplexity AI who is funding the Heritage Foundation and it said,
Based on the search results, the Heritage Foundation receives funding from a variety of sources:Individual donors: The Heritage Foundation claims to have over 500,000 individual donors1. In 2023, they raised more than $150 million in cash and commitments2. Private foundations: Some of the largest foundation contributors between 1998-2018 included:Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund ($16.8 million)Sarah Scaife Foundation ($13.7 million)DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative ($13.3 million)Herrick Foundation ($12.6 million)National Christian Charitable Foundation ($11.4 million)3. Corporate donors: Historically, trustees have included individuals affiliated with major corporations like Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical, General Motors, Mobil, Pfizer, and Sears4. Donor-advised funds: In 2018, over $1.5 million came from donor-advised funds like Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Schwab Charitable Fund, and Chicago Community Trust.5. Koch-affiliated organizations: The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation donated $200,000 in 2018. Greenpeace reports that Koch foundations gave $6,130,201 from 1997 to 20176. ExxonMobil: According to ExxonSecrets, Heritage Foundation received $780,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.7. Coors family: Businessman Joseph Coors contributed $250,000 to establish the Heritage Foundation in 1973 and continued funding through the Adolph Coors Foundation.It's worth noting that as a 501(c)(3) organization, the Heritage Foundation is not required to disclose its donors. The foundation's total revenue in 2022 was reported to be $106 million.
Then we have the Supreme Court and Justice Thomas and his friends,
- Democratic senators have accused Justice Clarence Thomas of accepting undisclosed gifts and trips.
- They say he accepted gifts such as a yacht trip to Russia and a chopper ride to Vladimir Putin's hometown.
- The senators want an investigation into potential tax fraud and ties between Thomas and Harlan Crow.
Business InsiderBy Aditi BharadeJuly 11, 2024Two Democratic senators have accused Justice Clarence Thomas of accepting a free trip to Russian President Vladimir Putin's hometown.Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon filed a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 3, asking to open an investigation into the Supreme Court judge.The letter said there was a "serious possibility of tax fraud" and accused Thomas of having "secretly accepted gifts and income potentially worth millions of dollars."The letter's appendix, which lists 35 undisclosed gifts, shows a "yacht trip to Russia and the Baltics" and a "helicopter ride to Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg," both listed under the year 2003.[...]St. Petersburg, Russia, is Putin's birthplace and where he grew up. The president now resides in Moscow.
You know you have to wonder which side they are working for?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York filed articles of impeachment against Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday."Justice Thomas and Alito's repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law," her statement reads.
It seems like the quality of justices that Trump has appointed are like him with a lot of questionable deals.
Updated 7/12 @ 4:30AM
There’s no sugarcoating it: The last few weeks have been bad for Democrats. But, there is a silver lining for the party. The Republican Party, including apparently Trump himself, seems suddenly worried about growing mainstream awareness of Project 2025, a set of far-right policy initiatives developed by the Heritage Foundation and a slew of Trump-supporting thinkers and organizations. While Trump has said he knows nothing about Project 2025, it was enabled by a raft of former Trump administration officials. MSNBC's Brian Tyler Cohen breaks down what Project 2025 is and who is behind it. For more of Brian’s collab with MSNBC click here https://www.msnbc.com/btc
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