{"id":2302949,"date":"2024-07-20T21:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T01:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-disavows-project-2025-as-proposals-risk-becoming-political-drag-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T21:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T01:54:42","slug":"trump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rejects Project 2025 due to potential political backlash &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner-4%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2302949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary of the\u2062 article\u2064 is about Donald\u2063 Trump disavowing\u200c Project 2025, \u200ca set of policy \u2063proposals\u2063 by the Heritage Foundation \u2062for his hypothetical second administration. Trump criticized \u2064the extreme nature of the proposals and referred to them as misinformation. The Biden campaign has used Project 2025 to highlight what a \u200dsecond Trump term could look like, portraying him\u2062 as divisive and focused on himself. Trump&#8217;s comments about \u200cnot knowing about Project 2025 contradict his previous praise for the Heritage Foundation. The article also\u2063 mentions the disorganization of Trump&#8217;s first transition in 2017.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump disavows Project 2025 as proposals risk becoming political drag<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1708300\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan &mdash;<\/strong> Republican presidential nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> ripped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/heritage-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Heritage Foundation<\/a>&lsquo;s policy proposals for his hypothetical second administration as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>&lsquo;s campaign uses the conservative think tank&rsquo;s recommendations against him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project &rsquo;25,&rdquo; Trump told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t even know, I mean, some of them I know who they are, but they are very, very conservative. They&rsquo;re sort of the opposite of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-democrats-election-heist-too-big-to-fail\/\" title=\"Is the Democrats\u2019 Election Heist \u2018Too Big to Fail\u2019?\">radical left<\/a>. You have the radical left, and you have the radical right.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They read some of the things, and they are extreme,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I mean they&rsquo;re seriously extreme, but I don&rsquo;t know anything about it. I don&rsquo;t want to know anything about it, but what they do is misinformation, disinformation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign has amplified Project 2025, which the former president and his campaign have tried to distance themselves from, as a way to remind the public what a second Trump term could be like.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were promised a new Donald Trump who would unite the country &mdash; instead all we saw tonight was the same Donald Americans keep rejecting over and over: He&rsquo;s peddling the same lies, running the same campaign of revenge and retribution, touting the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brutal-marjorie-taylor-greene-destroys-nasty-ga-election-official-gabe-sterling-after-his-latest-attack-on-president-trump-and-herself\/\" title=\"BRUTAL! Marjorie Taylor Greene DESTROYS Nasty GA Election Official Gabe Sterling After His Latest Attack on President Trump and Herself\">failed policies<\/a>, and &mdash; as usual &mdash; focused only on himself,&rdquo; Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa told reporters. &ldquo;The only unity we saw today was between Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and their&nbsp;Project&nbsp;2025&nbsp;agenda.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump just now: I don&rsquo;t know anything about Project 2025<\/p>\n<p>Also Trump: The Heritage Foundation is a great group and they&rsquo;re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do in my second term <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yPWfVzyV6I\">pic.twitter.com\/yPWfVzyV6I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1814780198363275353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, was founded in April 2022 to provide Trump with the groundwork for his second transition, a process that was disorganized under his leadership before he took office in 2017. One of the most criticized components of the project is its attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner-2\/\" title=\"Trump rejects Project 2025 due to potential political backlash - Washington Examiner\">consolidate presidential power<\/a>, including empowering more political appointees at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Justice Department<\/a> and dismantling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-education\/\">D<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>epartment of Education<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under the Biden administration, the federal government has been weaponized against American citizens, our border invaded, and our institutions captured by woke ideology,&rdquo; Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts wrote in a statement last month. &ldquo;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-urge-athletes-to-boycott-chinas-genocide-olympics-for-their-safety\/\" title=\"Activists Urge Athletes to Boycott China&#039;s Genocide Olympics for Their Safety\">task force launched<\/a> by House Democrats only underscores the Left&rsquo;s fear of losing its grip on their authoritarian bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If their strategy is to resort to scare tactics instead of tackling the genuine concerns of Americans regarding the unsustainable cost of living, rampant crime, border crisis, and global unrest spawned by their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump rejects Project 2025 due to potential political backlash - Washington Examiner\">left-wing policies&#038;mdash<\/a>;well, they&rsquo;re more than welcome to try,&rdquo; Roberts added. &ldquo;We will not give up and we will win.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1708300\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1708300\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump rejects Project 2025 as it poses a potential political liability, criticizing the extreme conservative proposals put forth by the Heritage Foundation. The Biden campaign has seized on these recommendations to paint a negative picture of a potential second Trump administration. Project 2025 aims to streamline presidential power and make significant changes to government departments, drawing criticism from opponents. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts defends the project as a response to what he sees as the Biden administration&#8217;s failures and ideological capture of institutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2302950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-michigan-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35697,33997,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2302949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-political-backlash","tag-project-2025","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-michigan-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}