{"id":2303016,"date":"2024-07-20T22:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T02:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-disavows-project-2025-as-proposals-risk-becoming-political-drag-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T02:56:24","slug":"trump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner-8\/","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-8%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=2303016&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>In a speech \u200cin Grand Rapids,\u2063 Michigan, Republican presidential nominee Donald\u200d Trump criticized the \u200bHeritage Foundation&#8217;s policy recommendations known as\u2064 Project 2025, \u2062suggesting they were extreme and\u200b misinformation. The Biden campaign has used these proposals\u200d against\u2064 Trump, portraying them as\u200d a potential outcome of a second Trump administration. Trump&#8217;s disavowal of Project 2025\u200c highlights the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-purge-has-begun-where-it-stops-nobody-knows\/\" title=\"The Purge Has Begun. Where It Stops, Nobody Knows.\">political divide<\/a> between the\u2063 two parties. Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-loeffler-fires-back-after-ossoff-accuses-her-of-campaigning-with-kkk-member\/\" title=\"Sen. Loeffler Fires Back After Ossoff Accuses Her of Campaigning with KKK Member\">campaign spokesman<\/a>, Ammar Moussa, \u2064criticized Trump for focusing\u200d on himself and his failed policies. The controversy surrounding Project 2025 reflects the ongoing political\u200d tensions in the United States.  <\/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 radical left. You have the radical left, and you have the radical right.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump disavows Project 2025 as proposals risk becoming political drag #short\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ld81k3rycBs?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\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 failed policies, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rejects-project-2025-due-to-potential-political-backlash-washington-examiner-3\/\" title=\"Trump rejects Project 2025 due to potential political backlash - Washington Examiner\">criticized components<\/a> 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 task force launched 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. Despite Trump&#8217;s disavowal of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation continues to push for its agenda, emphasizing the need to address concerns such as the cost of living, crime, border security, and global unrest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2303017,"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],"class_list":["post-2303016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-political-backlash","tag-project-2025","tag-trump"],"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\/2303016","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=2303016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}