2024-07-07 03:00:12
Donald Trump has distanced himself from “Project 2025”, prepared by an American conservative think tank and aiming for large-scale changes in the US federal government, the world agencies reported, quoted by BTA.
However, long-time allies and former employees of the Trump administration also participated in the preparation of the project, the Associated Press adds.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump wrote on his social network “Truth Social”. “I have no idea who’s behind it. I don’t agree with some of the things these people are saying,” he added, stating that some of the things in the Project are completely ridiculous and ridiculous.
The 922-page plan calls for a dramatic expansion of the president’s powers and the firing of up to 50,000 government employees to replace them with Trump loyalists.
Trump outlined his own plans to reshuffle the government if he wins a second term, including launching the largest operation to deport illegal immigrants in US history and imposing tariffs on potentially all imports. His campaign previously warned his outside allies not to hire themselves to speak on his behalf.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, behind Project 2025, said in a podcast that Republicans are “in the process of getting this country back.” “We are in the midst of a second American revolution that will be bloodless if the left allows it,” Roberts said.
These comments were widely circulated on the Internet. Biden’s campaign released a statement saying Trump and his allies “dream of a violent revolution that will destroy the very idea of America.”
Some of the people involved in Project 2025 are former senior Trump administration officials. The head of the project, for example, is Paul Dance, who under Trump held the position of head of the “Personnel Management” department. John McEntee, former director of the White House Office of the President in the Trump administration, is a senior adviser on the project.
Trump’s comments about Project 2025 come ahead of next week’s GOP caucuses, where he will begin drafting his party platform.
A spokesperson for Project 2025 said it is not tied to any particular candidate or campaign. “We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups making policy and staff recommendations for the next conservative president,” the statement said. “But in the end, it’s up to this president, who we think will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement,” he added.
The Democratic National Committee said Project 2025 and the Trump campaign were part of the same operation. A spokesman for the Biden campaign said members of the Project 2025 team are also running the Republican policy platform.