As the general public turns into conscious of Trump allies Challenge 2025 plans to remake the complete federal authorities right into a dystopian conservative nightmare, ex-president Donald Trump is doing what he at all times does: refusing to take accountability for what he’s going to do.
So Trump has stated he doesn’t even know the individuals behind Challenge 2025, writing on his embattled social media platform, “I do not know who’s behind it,” a press release that’s so false as to be laughable on its face on condition that a number of of his high persons are behind it, together with Paul Dans whom Trump put in late in his disastrous presidency in an try to achieve much more management over federal staff.
However now a CNN deep dive has discovered that no less than 140 individuals who labored for Trump in his administration are concerned and practically 240 individuals with ties to each Challenge 2025 and the presumed Republican nominee and now convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.
From Cupboard secretaries to ambassadors to his immigration enforcers and a shocking 20 pages they discovered credited to his first deputy chief of employees, Trump’s individuals had been concerned with the Heritage Basis within the 900-page plot to destroy the US democracy as we all know it.
CNN additionally discovered much more individuals who staffed his authorities like “his former chief of employees Mark Meadows and longtime adviser Stephen Miller.”
Pointedly, in case anybody missed the memo that the Challenge 2025 plans are anti-democratic, “These teams additionally embody a number of legal professionals deeply concerned in Trumpâs makes an attempt to stay in energy, resembling his impeachment legal professional Jay Sekulow and two of the authorized architects of his failed bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Cleta Mitchell and John Eastman.”
Trump performs a sport that has served him properly with a press that takes his denials at face worth (whereas clearly not giving President Biden the identical deference), so his deliberate behavior of claiming one thing inflammatory after which saying the other or saying he didn’t say it or didn’t imply it has been very efficient for him in clearing him of accountability from the media. However right here he’s saying he wants the Heritage Basis to attain his tax cuts by the Home and Senate, which is proof that they’ve labored collectively to push by what many economists say was a dangerous agenda earlier than:
Right here is Trump saying he âneedsâ the Heritage Basis, the group behind Challenge 2025, as a way to âachieveâ his excessive MAGA agenda https://t.co/AyuAbyz7aU pic.twitter.com/Sr72hdOKXC
â Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) July 5, 2024
Donald Trump is doing the identical factor on the difficulty of abortion. He brags about overturning Roe however then doesn’t need the blame for overturning Roe, so he tells the media he’s a reasonable on abortion and he’s “softening” the RNC platform. Due to Donald Trump’s complete profession, it’s very straightforward to name that what it’s: Trump modifications his tune to no matter individuals wish to hear at that second. What he says at any given second would be the reverse of what he’s stated earlier than.
Donald Trump is aware of a whole bunch of individuals concerned in Challenge 2025. A lot of them labored for him to advance his agenda when he was within the White Home. He’s mendacity when he says he doesn’t know them.
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