{"id":2356187,"date":"2024-10-17T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-freezing-out-some-project-2025-architects-from-future-admin-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T17:22:33","slug":"trump-team-freezing-out-some-project-2025-architects-from-future-admin-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-freezing-out-some-project-2025-architects-from-future-admin-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump team freezing out some Project 2025 architects from future admin &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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-team-freezing-out-some-project-2025-architects-from-future-admin-washington-examiner%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=2356187&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>Former President\u2063 Donald Trump&#8217;s team is reportedly implementing a blacklist\u2063 of staffers deemed disloyal, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-dems-skeptical-of-biden-tax-hikes-fear-agenda-dangling-by-a-thread\/\" title=\"Congressional Dems \u2018Skeptical\u2019 Of Biden Tax Hikes, Fear Agenda \u2018Dangling By A Thread\u2019\">targeting individuals<\/a> associated with Project 2025. This initiative, promoted by the conservative Heritage Foundation, aims to prepare policy recommendations and\u200b staff for\u2064 a\u200d potential Republican administration.\u2062 Trump&#8217;s distancing from\u200c Project 2025 comes in response to criticism \u2063from Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, and reflects a broader \u200cstrategy to\u200d eliminate perceived disloyalty among his team members.<\/p>\n<p>The blacklist includes individuals linked to Project 2025, as well as those \u200cwho resigned following the\u2063 January 6th riot. The move \u200demphasizes loyalty\u2062 as a \u2062critical factor in staffing \u2063decisions, particularly as the Trump campaign sought to address concerns that Project 2025 may imply a\u2062 direct connection to Trump. Some\u200c former officials, \u2064like Myron Ebell, \u200bargue that while such lists are common, a total blacklist would significantly limit the pool of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vowed-to-elect-more-women-they-did-just-that\/\" title=\"Republicans Vowed To Elect More Women...They Did Just That\">qualified candidates<\/a>\u200c who have pro-Trump credentials. Ebell suggested that the \u200ccurrent blacklist may be more of a \u2062political tactic\u2062 rather\u200b than a permanent \u2063measure, allowing for adjustments after a possible election victory.  <\/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 team freezing out some Project 2025 architects from future administration<\/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_1837608\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump's\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> team is preparing a staffer blacklist, which includes those seen as disloyal and some figures associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3101296\/fear-over-project-2025-created-out-of-thin-air-editor-argues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Project 2025\">Project 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Project 2025, an initiative by the conservative Heritage Foundation to put forward policy suggestions for a Republican administration and prepare staffers for it, has come under intense fire from Democrats and Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris's\">Kamala Harris&rsquo;s<\/a> campaign. That criticism has resulted in Trump distancing himself from the project, having no direct involvement in it previously.<\/p>\n<p>He took this distancing a step further after his team began blacklisting some figures associated with it, two former Trump officials familiar with the discussions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/16\/trump-transition-hiring-staffer-ban-00183208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the people blacklisted were some of those linked to Project 2025, some who resigned from Trump&rsquo;s administration after the Jan. 6 riot, and others perceived as disloyal to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The focus on loyalty could have played a major part in the decision to blacklist Project 2025 figures as the Trump campaign was angry the project appeared to imply that it was linked with the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Myron Ebell, who led Trump&rsquo;s Environmental Protection Agency transition operation in 2016, said such &ldquo;naughty and nice&rdquo; lists are common and that one was used in 2016. He voiced skepticism over the scope of the Project 2025 blacklist, arguing that a total boycott would exclude &ldquo;many highly qualified pro-Trump people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It shrinks the pool considerably,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The large number of people who authored sections of the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mandate for Leadership &mdash; the Conservative Promise<\/a>&rdquo; were Trump loyalists, such as former Deputy Assistant to the President Peter Navarro.<\/p>\n<p>Ebell suggested that the blacklist of Project 2025 figures could be simply a nonbinding optical move.<\/p>\n<p>He said that after &ldquo;the election or after the inauguration, they can change their mind about that. I see it as a political tactic, not as a permanent ban.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Howard Lutnick, the Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">transition team<\/a> co-chairman, told the <em>New York Post<\/em> that Project 2025 is &ldquo;radioactive,&rdquo; so recruits tied to it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-continuous-media-covid-fear-mongering-may-backfire-and-diminish-democrat-voter-turnout\/\" title=\"The Continuous Media COVID Fear Mongering May BACKFIRE and Diminish Democrat Voter Turnout\">won&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr., the head of the transition team, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/vance-walz-vice-presidential-debate-election-2024\/card\/donald-trump-jr-s-main-job-keeping-bad-actors-out-of-transition-team-6HLZI8Lo6dNw41ueWKbh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>  that the main goal of the transition team was to prevent &ldquo;RINOs&rdquo; and disloyal people from getting in.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of people that put the R next to their name, but then they do whatever the swamp wants because they&rsquo;re looking for the next consulting gig or something like that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re doing a lot with vetting. My job is to prevent those guys more so than actually picking people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 has become a focus of the Harris campaign, with Harris, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-to-deliver-video-message-urging-congregants-in-300-black-churches-to-vote-for-terry-mcauliffe\/\" title=\"Harris To Deliver Video Message Urging Congregants In 300 Black Churches To Vote For Terry McAuliffe\">campaign surrogates<\/a> attempting to connect Trump with the effort in nearly every public appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Most accusations made by Democrats and campaign surrogates were found to be false. In one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3075402\/project-2025-issues-clarification-suggestions-critics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"viral list\">viral list<\/a> of alleged proposals, only five of the 31 items listed were found to be true or partially true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><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_1837608\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1837608\"}});<\/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 team blacklisting some Project 2025 members from future roles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2356188,"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\/10\/Trump-Univision-town-hall-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4106,5894,33997,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2356187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-administration","tag-politics","tag-project-2025","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Trump-Univision-town-hall-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356187","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\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}