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Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign

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11.22.24
President-elect Donald Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election, seeing the conservative transition plan and policy blueprint as a liability after Democrats used it to attack his campaign. Some close to Trump even suggested those tied to the effort would be shut out of a potential administration. But with the campaign over, Trump’s transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration. Already, transition officials are taking suggestions for potential hires from the extensive personnel database created by Project 2025, a person familiar with the situation told NBC News. While Project 2025’s massive book of conservative policy recommendations received most of the attention from Democrats, a central part of the effort was putting together a database that officials had framed as a conservative LinkedIn to help staff an incoming Republican administration. The person familiar with the transition said officials overseeing plans for some departments and agencies have started to reach out to potential hires whose names and contact information were part of that database.

“There’s a lot of positions to fill and we continue to send names over, including ones from the database as they are conservative, qualified and vetted,” the person, who worked on Project 2025, said. “Hard to find 4,000 solid people, so we are happy to help.” The transition has already shown it is open to tapping contributors to the effort for administration jobs, including Tom Homan as border czar, Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and John Ratcliffe as CIA director. Both Homan and Ratcliffe were listed as contributors to Project 2025, while Carr wrote a chapter on the FCC. The personnel database was a cornerstone of Project 2025. Under Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official who led Project 2025, the group built a database of more than 10,000 candidates vetted for their MAGA credentials who would build out the administration in the event Trump won. The idea behind the effort was to ensure that a future Trump administration would have the foot soldiers necessary to rapidly enact his agenda upon taking office.

As always, Trump was lying to the American people about his ties to P2025 prior to the election.


 
I mean...did anyone not know that MAGAs were lying when they insisted we could trust Trump's statements that he wasn't going to touch P2025?
I suspect Project 2025 will be used the same way past Heritage Foundation policy proposals were, the big difference this go around is it's a much better laid out plan with both personnel and strategy already worked out for quick implementation. How much of it is used will be easy to reconcile, and if it comes anywhere near to the acceptance rate as the last time, then we're talking about a 60% adoption rate, which is pretty significant. This idea Trump knew nothing about it was comical given the speech he gave at a Florida event back in April of last year which was to celebrate the launch of the work into Project 2025. It's one of the many Trump defenses that leads one to conclude he was either an idiot or a liar.
 



As always, Trump was lying to the American people about his ties to P2025 prior to the election.


Duh.

All those folk saying that Trump wasn't going to use P2025 is are liars. We all knew that P2025 was the goal should he get in.
 
So far the left has been correct on everything regarding Trump's 2024 presidency and he hasn't even taken office yet.
 
So far the left has been correct on everything regarding Trump's 2024 presidency and he hasn't even taken office yet.
Yeah, that's because what he wants to do in destroying the Republic and instituting MAGA commie rule was obvious.
 
Trump could hold up the project 2025 file and order it to be enacted tomorrow and his fans would still try and claim he knows nothing about it and it has nothing to do with him.

It's pretty stunning to watch.
 



As always, Trump was lying to the American people about his ties to P2025 prior to the election.



Well, what these articles are saying is that Trump may be seeking to select qualified personnel from a list of "conservative" candidates provided by the Project 2025 group.

Hmmm, well that does not necessarily mean anything other then Trump finding a list of "conservatives" he may be able to use to replace "liberals" presently serving. This to prevent a repeat of the undermining that occurred during his prior Administration by entrenched career politicians who ignored his policy directives and did what they wanted instead.

He did promise to "clean out the swamp." Having a list of personnel options could be a great help. However, that doesn't mean he will follow Project 2025, he will still expect adherence to his Agenda 47.

Final opinion: Much ado about nothing. Again. :coffee:
 
I don't know... All these fine people reassured me Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025 and it was all Dem lies!

Speaking of lies, Harris still has "Trump's Project 2025 Agenda" on her website.

Yeah, its [Project 2025] not part of Trumps agenda.

Project 2025 for example. The moronic left, including Harris have been attempting to project that onto him.

Still blatantly lying about Project 2025?

Well, lying is what democrats do.


Trumps Project 2025. Over and over he has said he has nothing to do with it.
I just watched a democrat add touting Trumps Project 2025 agenda. So? Democrats lying outright despite Trump repeatedly denouncing he has any tie to 2025. So here we see democrats deliberately lying.
Trump has no 2025 plan. Stop lying.

I mean, Project 2025 is not Trump's...
If Harris stops trying to tie Trump in with Project 2025 ...
Watching everyone get in a tizzy about the boogeyman project 2025 is very entertaining.

In all fairness falsely attributing things to Donald Trump is sort of the only play in the book.

I don't suppose it doesn't matter Trump has repudiated any link to 2025.

Trump is not associated with Project 2025.....nice try, utter failure.
 
I mean...did anyone not know that MAGAs were lying when they insisted we could trust Trump's statements that he wasn't going to touch P2025?

I should have figured they'd just go for the straight gaslighting.

However, that doesn't mean he will follow Project 2025,

This, from the guy who said pictures and videos of cops slashing tires at a Floyd rally was not evidence that police slashed tires at a Floyd rally.

The guy who posted an essay about how only the left uses whattaboutism, that therefore he will use whattaboutism, and that it doesn't count that he's doing it.

Right down to that smug little trolling emoticon, the :coffee:
 
Interesting twitter thread of unsettled issues about presidential power ~Lawrence Tribe

1/ It’s going to be a wild ride for executive power during Trump 2.0. Here is a quick list of important issues where executive power is likely to be pushed hard, rethought, resisted, and/or, when possible, litigated. What am I missing?

 
I should have figured they'd just go for the straight gaslighting.

This, from the guy who said pictures and videos of cops slashing tires at a Floyd rally was not evidence that police slashed tires at a Floyd rally.

The guy who posted an essay about how only the left uses whattaboutism, that therefore he will use whattaboutism, and that it doesn't count that he's doing it.

Right down to that smug little trolling emoticon, the :coffee:

Adverse would excuse Trump shooting someone on live tv right there on Fifth Avenue.
 
Adverse would excuse Trump shooting someone on live tv right there on Fifth Avenue.
Only if he shot an illegal immigrant or Rosy O'Donnell.
 
People were warned that Trump was lying, but they voted for him anyway. Its on them.
 
Well, what these articles are saying is that Trump may be seeking to select qualified personnel from a list of "conservative" candidates provided by the Project 2025 group.

Hmmm, well that does not necessarily mean anything other then Trump finding a list of "conservatives" he may be able to use to replace "liberals" presently serving. This to prevent a repeat of the undermining that occurred during his prior Administration by entrenched career politicians who ignored his policy directives and did what they wanted instead.

He did promise to "clean out the swamp." Having a list of personnel options could be a great help. However, that doesn't mean he will follow Project 2025, he will still expect adherence to his Agenda 47.

Final opinion: Much ado about nothing. Again. :coffee:
You guys will literally jump off a cliff to make excuses for Trump. It's hilarious.
 
The application will have one line:

"Do you put Donald Trump above America?"

If yes, Welcome aboard!
If no, you will be arrested on suspicion of treason.
 
What do you know about project 2025 how much of it have you actually read?

There was no need to read it. As you all said, Trump would have nothing to do with it and did not know anything about it and so it was irrelevant.

How much of it have you read?
 
There was no need to read it.
So you know nothing about it and have no concept of what you're even talking about you just heard some creep on the TV tell you it's bad and you agree with them because reasons.
As you all said, Trump would have nothing to do with it and did not know anything about it and so it was irrelevant.
I never said that.
How much of it have you read?
I've read the communications component makes sense to me it would be foolish for a president to throw that part of it out.
 
So you know nothing about it and have no concept of what you're even talking about you just heard some creep on the TV tell you it's bad and you agree with them because reasons.

You seem to know a lot about me, sources of my information and how reliable they are. Strange. I said there was no need to read it because you claimed it was not important or relevant. I did not say I never read any parts of it - because you obviously want to move some goal posts and avoid the inconvenient point of you pretending it did not matter before.

I never said that.

Really?

Meaning you just make up stuff? You don't know any better if you did you'd know Trump has distance himself from project 2025.
[Project 2025 is] Not part of Trump's campaign.
Project 2025 being a legitimate issue is a conspiracy theory.
There is nothing to suggest he would go forward with project 2025.
Trump has distanced himself from project 2025. Scare tactics don't work on me.
 
You seem to know a lot about me, sources of my information and how reliable they are. Strange. I said there was no need to read it because you claimed it was not important or relevant. I did not say I never read any parts of it - because you obviously want to move some goal posts and avoid the inconvenient point of you pretending it did not matter before.



Really?
Yep and all that's true still to this day.
 
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