Trump FLIPS on Project 2025

I don't know what the hell it is it's project 25 he's involved in project and then they read some of the things and they are extreme I mean they're seriously extreme but I don't know anything about it project 2025 I'm sure you heard of it it was cooked up by the right-wing Think Tank known as The Heritage Foundation and has been such a thorn in Trump's side that his team successfully pushed for the ouster of its director a guy by the name of Paul Dan now the Trump campaign did not author project 2025 you might think they do because Democrats make it appear as though Trump himself wrote it uh but it has been attributed to his campaign by democrats as part of their political strategy and I think that it is wrong to do this because when you inaccurately attribute something to Trump when you cry wolf well when he actually does pose a on things people are going to be fatigued from the fear-mongering and so I want to make my case on this now let's get back to the director of project 2025 Paul Dan's exit comes after the project completed exactly what it set out to do bringing together over 110 leading conservative organizations to create a unified conservative Vision motivated to devolve power from the unelected administrative State and returning it to the people Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said in a statement now as you heard from the video that you watched a little earlier Trump has very aggressively disavowed project 2025 there are portions of project 2025 namely on immigration policy that Trump does agree with and he campaigns heavily on but as uh Associated Press notes Trump has repeatedly disavowed the document saying on social media he hasn't read it and doesn't know anything about it at a rally in Michigan earlier this month he said project 2025 was written by people on the severe right I agree with him on that and some of the things in it are seriously extreme I agree with him on that as well now it's important to keep in mind that while there's a big you know worry about project 2025 right now this is a document similar to what the Heritage Foundation releases literally every election cycle in fact it dates back to the Reagan Administration now the document itself has differed from election cycle to election cycle of course but the Heritage Foundation has been in the game for a long time and they do this again every election cycle it's the think Tank's way of pushing the Republican candidate and in their hopes the Republican president eventually to carry out what their agenda is but associating it with the Trump campaign because some former Trump Camp uh Trump Administration officials are now part of the Heritage Foundation I think is a little bit unfair now here's how the Trump campaign reacted to the ouer of Paul Dan the Trump campaign appeared to cheer Paul Dan's departure tonight even though he is an Alum of the Trump Administration he served in the OPM office saying in a quote its demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump in his campaign it will not end well for you now in addition to that Trump's campaign advisor Susie wild and Chris levita went even further and released a statement saying that President Trump's campaign has been very clear for over a year that project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign did not speak for the campaign and should not be associated with the campaign or the president in any way reports of project 202's demise would be greatly welcomed and should Ser as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign it will not end well for you and one thing that I will note is that Trump isn't disavowing project 2025 because he's trying to appeal to the libs okay he's disavowing it because Maga Republicans ain't about the Heritage Foundation brand of conservatism there is a very obvious split in the Republican party that I think a lot of Democrats are unaware of there are the traditional conservative Republicans they're the warhawks they're the individuals who are very extreme when it comes to social issues and then there are the more isolationist Maga Republicans these are the America First crowd they don't like what's in Project 2025 and so what Trump is doing and disavowing it is trying to a appease or appeal to members of his own base so again like he knows that it's actually politically advantageous to not be associated with something that is not popular with the America First magga crowd now Washington Post reporter Isaac arnsdorf um who's uh been following this story very closely uh discloses some really important facts about how the Heritage Foundation agenda was developed in the first place and the timing of how they developed it is also really important and guys I'm not telling you this because I'm trying to defend Donald Trump I'm telling you this because I don't want people living in fear because Democrats are attributing something that Trump didn't write to Donald Trump so with that in mind take a look project 2025 started before Trump was the nominee before it was clear that he was going to be the nominee and the idea was for the Heritage Foundation to get together a whole bunch bu of think tanks in the conservative movement and and present a consensus view for an agency by agency policy blueprint for the next Administration whoever that Republican president was going to be a lot of people at Heritage and involved in Project 2025 loved the notoriety that it was getting they loved to see uh it being criticized on CNN and MSNBC uh they loved that there were DNC mobile billboard trucks outside the office but then when it started anging Trump and they started getting backlash from Trump about it that made them really concerned the thing is I don't expect the Democrats to stop talking about it anytime soon yeah I agree I don't think Democrats are going to stop talking about it anytime soon because this is very much part of their campaign strategy and look it has now been several years I mean since 2016 the Democratic party's messaging as it pertains to the general election is the other guy's really bad and really dangerous and that's terrible in two main ways okay number one it leads to a situation in which Democratic voters live in this like extreme fear and look I think that there are lots of things to be concerned about when it comes to Donald Trump should he get reelected but having unfounded fears about something that Trump did not write and did not subscribe to I think is unfair to people I don't want them to live in fear like that and more importantly I think Democrats need to make the case for why voters should support them not just because the other guy is scary and dangerous but because Democrats have a policy agenda that seeks to improve the lives of Americans that needs to be part of the messaging if you want a fearmonger okay I mean that's G to be part of the messaging as well and that's fine but the dishonesty really bothers me the fearmongering to an extreme really bothers me and the lack of a message in regard to what substantive policies are Democrats going to pursue should KLA Harris win the general election like the lack of that really bothers me as well so look I want to emphasize and be fair there are definitely elements of project 2025 that Donald Trump is in favor of and vociferously supports this guy can't hide the ball like he's very honest about what he wants to do and one of the things he wants to do of course is U Mass deportations but what's really interesting is during kamla Harris's rally in Georgia yesterday she did touch on immigration and she seems to be promoting the Hardline right-wing policy that the Biden Administration was trying to pass uh in the Senate so let's hear what she had to say about that our Administration worked on the most significant border of security bill in decades some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington DC supported the bill even the border patrol endorsed it it was all set to pass but at the last minute Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down right he tanked tanked the bipartisan deal because he thought it would help him win an election as president I will bring back the border security bill that Donald Trump killed and I will sign it into [Music] law and show Donald Trump what real leadership looks [Music] like I mean that was a Hardline Bill uh that was negotiated by a very conservative Republican in the Senate Senator Langford so it's just really interesting how the Overton window on immigration has really moved to the right and it's celebrated when it's KLA Harris right but when it's Donald Trump probably because of his way of communicating it's not celebrated right it's it's used to to fear-monger and it's important to know that it's important to be aware of that now Republicans will claim that that bipartisan bill was a weak bill but it was really a massive giveaway uh to conservative Republicans it had Provisions in there that Republicans have been fighting for for many many many years and in fact Langford was Furious when uh Trump crushed that bill because he wanted to run on our broken immigration system so it's important to know the facts it's important to be honest about what's really going on in this election Donald Trump in my opinion is a target-rich environment and if the Democratic party wants to fearer about him please do so on things that he's actually saying he's going to do but associating with the Heritage Foundation which again is full to the brim of traditional conservative Republicans that Maga Republicans find repulsive I think is weird and the reason why Donald Trump is so Furious about it is not because Democrats are fearmongering about it to liberals he's Furious about it because some in the Maga crowd are concerned that you know the Heritage Foundation agenda is going 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