The Washington Post: Former president Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from a conservative think tank’s plan, known as Project 2025, for the next Republican presidency, as Democrats work to make it a political vulnerability for Trump in the November election.

Former president Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from a conservative think tank’s plan, known as Project 2025, for the next Republican presidency, as Democrats work to make it a political vulnerability for Trump in the November election.

Trump tries to distance himself from Project 2025, a conservative group’s plan for GOP presidencywww.washingtonpost.com Trump claimed Friday he knew “nothing” about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a right-wing policy blueprint spearheaded by former Trump administration officials.

Lazy framing

He's more concerned with the optics. He's on board with the message of it.

Correction: Trump’s communication team posted a comment about Project 2025 that is as bold a lie as every single other thing Trump says about his political plans

And he was lying. Can you point out the many pro-2025 things he already champions?

There's a few in Agenda 47, including things like not teaching kids gay/trans people exist, dismantling public education...unfortunately Trump only does videos and I ain't going through them all and listening to that voice for hours.

Bollocks

It's not a 'conservative' think tank; its head has said that implementing their far-right agenda would only be "bloodless" if "the left allows it to be." The project demands the remaking of govt agencies into a tool of party power. The word you are looking for is 'fascist'.

convicted felon and rapist donald trump

His closest allies are all involved with Project 2025, but I guess that doesn't matter because Trump has proven to be SO trustworthy, right?

It’s all of his own people!

IT’S A COOKBOOK

EXCELLENT reference!

And what is *in* Project 2025?

i don’t see anything to worry about, the article says it’s just a federal employee shakeup and a recommendation about mifepristone access, and he already said he wouldn’t ban mifepristone. says here it deals with other “politically sensitive issues,” whatever that means seems fine!

Read this. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha...

What is Project 2025 And Why Is It Alarming?www.democracydocket.com We explain Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation's plan for how Trump, should he win the November election, can vastly remake the federal government most effectively to carry out an extremist far-righ...

christine, i know i was summarizing the washington post article

to be clear, i did this because the article’s coverage was inappropriately blithe about project 2025

Nothing to worry about? It's a Christian Evangelical powered Nazi playbook. In detail. 🤦‍♂️

hi i am sorry that i did not tag my post with “attempted humorous reflection of the article’s startlingly dismissive coverage of project 2025” and we don’t have a labeler for that, i guess let me set your mind at ease: i think project 2025 is horrifying & i know it’s a real plan.

the washington post described a plan to re-impose schedule f as a shakeup to make employees “more loyal,” without any context or even a link, which, what the hell

When it's taking things from something like 5,500 presidential appointments to 57,000. Essentially all senior agency staff.

He’s lying obviously. Why do you help him with that?

BUT WAPO DIDN'T LET DONALD DISTANCE HIMSELF BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING A JOURNALISM, CORRECT? CORRECT? WAPO STEPPED IN AND CALLED OUT HIS LIE, CORRECT? CORRECT?

Wapo needs money and this makes money

Nice try, you inflated weasel.

Is Johnny McEntee mentioned in this article? Does this article mention that everything Trump says is an obvious lie? Or are you taking this seriously?

He's lying and you are either too stupid or too craven to say it. Do better

Probably you should just uncritically print what he says, because he doesn’t have a long, storied, criminal history of lying, right?

Lololol he did his typical “coffee boy” routine combined with the vapid PR vagueness of “don’t like some” that encourages the reader to go “of course he means what I believe”. Not that anyone will correct them. He’s not distancing shit, he’s lying and you guys are playing owned media. Again.

Where's the word 'FALSELY' in your framing??? Jesus christ, 9 years after his escalator ride, and you're STILL just normalizing his deranged ass. Democracy dies in credulous framing & journalists just taking the dictation from obvious liars.

Sure sure, he knows NOTHING about P2025, despite praising parts of it for months. And we're still also waiting on that "big and beautiful" ACA replacement plan. And his taxes. etc. etc. etc. 1,000 times, etc. It's almost as if lying is like breathing for the piece of shit or something.

He can only succeed if members of the media do not fact check and fact crusade. That's where we are folks. Average Americans can do the same thing. Fact crusading is pretty easy. Copy link to legitimate source and share. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Trump Claims Project 2025 Nothing to Do With Him: ‘Abysmal’www.thedailybeast.com The 900-page conservative wish-list includes a massive abortion crackdown. Now Trump claims he knows nothing about it.

www.snopes.com/news/2024/07...

What's Project 2025? Unpacking the Pro-Trump Plan to Overhaul US Governmentwww.snopes.com For several months, we received a flood of reader inquiries asking if Project 2025 was a real effort to “reshape America.” Here’s the answer.

"President Trump, despite his PAC making repeated donations to Project 2025 and despite his white house staff being the main people in charge of Project 2025, falsely claimed he knows nothing about Project 2025 in a desperate attempt to flee from his positions" There ya go

Will you be following up on this and reporting what happens with all the staffers responsible for Project 2025

Do questions persist about the role played by Project 2025 architects in the campaign?

Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, accused pedophile Donald Trump, who has committed fraud against a charity. *That* Donald Trump?

God this is pathetic, WaPo. Trumpy boy is NOT distancing himself from his stated project. He’s straight up lying in the hopes that saps like YOU print it. Y’all are pathetic as hell.

I sure hope you follow up on this. Stephen Miller also is attempting to distance himself, despite appearing in Project 2025 training videos. We need serious investigative journalism into how tightly tied Project 2025 and its anti-American plans are to the Trump administration.

Don’t believe that distance. Heritage is 100% behind him, and he’ll give them the authoritarian project they want.

Don't let him off the hook.

C’mon. “Convicted criminal who issued over 30,000 lies, as confirmed by WaPo, lies again.”

Apparently, his memory is failing again! He should end his campaign as his dementia is obviously getting worse.

"Trump sought to distance himself from the Project for political convenience, while at the same time filling his campaign and future administration with those involved in its creation and roll-out." FIFY

don't print lies in the newspaper

Why do you hate us? What have we done to you?

Wow...really showing that the WP has a new editor today.

Project 2025 is “a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.” The primary document of Project 2025 lays out what is essentially a “Christian nationalist vision of the United States.”

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