Former president Donald Trump has never been one to mince words, especially when it comes to his rivals. Yet, whispers of his ties to the ultra-conservative initiative known as Project 2025 point towards a subtler strategy with one particular nemesis that nearly cost him the 2016 election.
Project 2025, a political initiative established in 2022, has reportedly been tasked with helping map out Trump’s second term should he win the 2024 election. Some of these plans include drafting executive orders, like deploying military domestically under the Insurrection Act.
Another part of Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” plan includes criminalizing all adult content and persecuting those involved in its creation and distribution. And while the incorrect conflation of adult content and trafficking has been a talking point for the far-right for quite some time, this is one of the first times Trump has been linked to a movement looking to abolish the adult industry — and it might be a pointed move.
For those who don’t recall, Trump has a contentious past with adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The adult star claimed that she had a sexual encounter with Trump back in 2006 and that she was paid $130,000 in hush money to keep word from getting out. The former president vehemently denied having any sort of relationship with Daniels and said the payment was made to stop Daniels from spreading “false and extortionist accusations.” Trump was ultimately indicted on criminal charges for the payments ahead of the 2016 election back in March.
According to Xbiz, an adult entertainment news site, the Mandate for Leadership’s road map says pornography is “propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children,” and claims that adult content is as “addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime,” adding that it “should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”
This alleged connection between Trump and Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership blueprint, specifically the goal to criminalize adult content, raises questions about the potential motivations behind this initiative. Is it merely a coincidence that this policy would directly impact Daniels, one of Trump’s most vocal critics? Or is this a strategic move by the former president to target yet another one of his adversaries indirectly?
While these connections remain speculative, the implications of such a policy are far-reaching. Criminalizing adult content would not only impact those involved in its creation and distribution, but also potentially limit free expression and individual rights. And, as victims of childhood trafficking and adult content creators have repeatedly pointed out, this type of attack on the adult content ultimately puts more people in danger.
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