Former President Donald Trump's has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, proclaiming on his Truth Social account that he has nothing to do with it and doesn't agree with large portions of it. But that just doesn't meet any level of credibility, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said.
This comes shortly after one of the key architects of Project 2025, Heritage Foundation chief Kevin Roberts, openly threatened violence if the left resists his "second American Revolution."
"Project 2025 is a MAGAworld manifesto and a vision of implementing a startlingly authoritarian form of the U.S. government," said Hayes. "It's 900 pages long, you could Google it right now and read it. It is chock-full of wildly unpopular policy proposals. You got everything from using a 19th-century obscenity law to shut down all medication abortion and also the mailing of all birth control, to outright outlawing pornography and throwing people in prison over it, to weaponizing the Department of Justice to be used explicitly as a kind of tool of vengeance for Donald Trump."
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Republicans have finally caught wind that Project 2025 is unpopular, noted Hayes — "which is why today, Donald Trump is desperate to try to separate himself from it all. Trump does not want people to know about the entire vanguard of extremist weirdos around him and what their plans are for when he governs. With the Project 2025 plans lying in plain sight they were panicking in a fraudulent way."
And for all of Trump's denials, Hayes continued, he is deeply connected to the people who helped create this blueprint.
"The group behind it all is the Heritage Foundation," said Hayes. "We all know Trump spoke to them while he was president, and Paul Dans, a senior aide in the Trump administration, is the director of Project 2025. Ken Cuccinelli, Trump's former acting deputy Homeland Security secretary who pushed anti-immigrant policies, wrote a chapter in the manifesto. John McEntee, a guy very close to him, around him all the time, he's a senior adviser, he's been doing vetting of a personnel database to see who they're going to staff the government with. If Trump has no idea who is behind it, he is far too senile to be allowed to continue his campaign. Either that or he's lying."
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