The claim: Project 2025 is a plan from Trump
Project 2025 is a political playbook created by the Heritage Foundation and dozens of other conservative groups, not Trump, who said he disagrees with elements of the effort. There are, however, numerous people involved in Project 2025 who worked in Trump's first administration.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump wrote in a July 5 Truth Social post. “I have no idea who is behind it. 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.”
Regardless, Democrats have continued to use associations between Project 2025 and Trump in their campaigning, this week claiming that the former president had "blessed" the document.
A post on X, formerly Twitter, by the Oversight Committee Democrats, posted on August 26, 2024, said: "Don't be fooled by Republican lies. Project 2025 was handcrafted by former Trump officials and cronies and 'blessed' directly by Trump.
The claim that he has "blessed" it is based on a hidden camera interview with Russell Vought, Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021. Vought is also one of the authors of Project 2025 and the founder of the conservative group the Center for Renewing America (CRA), one of the many organizations that partnered on the project.
In the hidden camera interview by the Centre for Climate Reporting, Vought told undercover reporters he was "not worried" about what Trump said in public about the project.
Vought then goes on to say that "our organization" was "blessed" by Trump. It appears he is talking about the CRA, however, not The Heritage Foundation or Project 2025. An accompanying article by the Centre for Climate Reporting also suggests Vought was talking about the CRA.
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